More about me (Web calendar, background, technology geek)
Ok, yeah, so there are going to be a ton of articles up front. That's life, I suppose.
Anyway, here's some more info. For one thing, I'm a tech-collector. I build my own computers (including the one this site is being hosted on). I dabble in technology wherever I can. This has, unfortunately, lead to less-than-stellar resume fodder, though. More on that later, I'm sure.
Anyway, one of the things I live by is the Palm. I have a Palm IIIe now... I originally had a PalmPilot Pro, which had been upgraded to a PalmIII board. But, I wore it out after about two years, so I had to buy a new one. I tried living without it, and it was just too tough. So, I bought the Palm IIIe. Anyway, Palm then nicely bought out AnyDay.com. Since then, they fixed it up so that it supports the Palm better. I now regularly sync my Palm with that website. So, not only do I always know what I'm doing, but so can the rest of the world! I try to keep recently-added events in the web calendar (I'm still not quite sure why there's no way to say "Just always display" for newly added events - you've got to trudge out to their website and do it yourself. Trying to sell more banner ads, I assume). Anyway, you can check out my current schedule at this link. Aren't you excited? I thought you would be.
I pretty much tinker with hardware whenever I can. I've been trying to find a comfortable way of combining free Internet phone services (see such great places as DialPad.com or, to a lesser extent Net2Phone. Anyway, it's hard to make things work out to be nicely within the usable range. Either there's too much delay (much better with lower-latency links, like DSL or campus ethernet), or there's a problem with the amplitude of the sound. More often than not, it's the amplitude that is the problem. People can get used to some extra delay, but not being able to hear each other makes it very hard to communicate. Anyway, updates on that sort of stuff later.
I have a passion for audio electronics. I dunno why. I just do. On my limited budget, I've acquired a bunch of speakers, an SBLive sound card (you simply MUST experiment with this card. Get the APS drivers for it, too!). Put together a little bit of multitrack missing software (n-Track studio. Decent multitrack with editing controls, for, uh, $30? Not bad), and an optical out to my portable MD recorder, and all is well. I regularly use this setup to variously screw around with sound, or record live performances. I've mixed sound for something like 14 hours of live a capppella now. I'm just a sound phreak. No doubt more on that later, too.
Man, I'd better stop now. If I add too many more promised future topics, I'm never going to get to write anything new, but just have to finish all of my old thoughts for the rest of the time I have this weblog. That could be many, many years. Yikes.