Really Getting Things Done

I have always been interested in efficiency and productivity especially with myself. As such, I like to take the time to customize anything I use a lot and find the optimal program for me (or as good as I can do).

As I get more responsibilities and things to remember, I really have fallen to my tools to help me keep going. Since my workflow was based upon one of my good friends and has only increased, I’d like to share what works for me and maybe some ideas that can help you no matter your place in life.

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Internet Woes

I haven’t been able to get online at my house reliably for the past couple days. This is really causing problems with me finishing some stuff (such as uploading one completed project). I apologize for the delays and I’ll try to get one project uploaded and possibly write a review of Cardamar’s last album while I’m at it.

On a lighter note, I just got a new PMP: a Cowon D2. I also will give some feedback on that and give a link to the excellent review I read before purchasing (I need to get it out of my history at home). Hopefully all that tonight.

Free-time (n) – what I may be lacking

Ok, I haven’t forgotten about the cURL tutorial or updating the site. I just happen to be quite busy right now. This weekend I hope to have some time to finish up the cURL stuff (I am working on it, it’s just not done) and hopefully get back to my project. This is somewhat of a reminder to myself as well, so hopefully it works! I also promise to make all of the source code available of both the problems and solutions.

Random cool thing I found: tntnet. I had heard about C++ server pages before, but tntnet is the project that really makes them shine. They claim that it can serve c++ dynamic pages fast than traditional web servers (probably apache) can serve static pages because the c++ pages get compiled. Awesome for speed. The syntax looks pretty nice to for making the views (and you get the c++ goodness for all of the processing).

Save the Music

I love streaming radio (along with many types of music). As such, I am a strong supporter of the Save Internet Radio movement. I encourage you to also take the time and talk to your senators/representatives if you are in the US or spread the word and try to help in other ways if you are not (there are ways posted on this blog post. The internet radio world thanks you for your support.

Not exactly neglect

Ok so i haven’t posted in almost 20 days. That’s not exactly what I would call being attentive of my blog. Um… sorry? This isn’t exactly a fix. I haven’t gottent any new chillout and my other activities I want to keep hidden for now. Yes, I have been doing something that I will eventually post here. If you’re really curious, my development site is located at dev.quad341.com and does have information about what is going on. Hopefully by mid-April I will have a working example of this project and announce it to the world. I welcome actual inquery and the repository allows for anonymous checkouts. In the mean time, I need more music. Suggestions?

Spam and damn

First, you can be amused by the fact that I just complimented my MacBook… and had to reformat it last night. Note to users: don’t put your computer to sleep (close lid) when it’s doing an update of the operating system. I’d love to send that message to apple, but I don’t know who to send it to. That was fun. That takes care of “damn.”

Also, I’ve been getting a bunch of random (spam?) messages at a bunch of my email addresses. I know I am on just about every spam list known to man, but these are just weird. The subject is always 3 characters long. It’s always uppercase letters (ISO-8859-1 encoding) and might contain a number (like Y7V). The message is a bunch of random phrases together separated by line breaks and tabs. They seem to be relayed from various domains (like 0451.com 1-tek.com and mail.ru). If anyone knows what this is, i’d love to know. This is one sent to quad341@quad341.com (which i bounce to my gmail account).
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Sickness and Surgury

So I didn’t get around to that update. Big deal. And the worst part is, this isn’t it either.

Well, so you all are informed, I recently have bought 2 Pete Namlook cds (well, 1 from iTunes) and 1 Tetsu Inuoe cd. They are Silence, Air, and Zenith respectively. They’re some of the best ambiant that I’ve heard in a while. It really is ambiant, though, so be prepared and be amazed.

I had oral surgury last Friday so I’m just starting to eat real food again. Kind of annoying to say the least. Also, the new Marco Torrance album is available for presale on Cardamar Music. Check it out or preorder here.

There’s also a new Marco Torrance mix on the mirror. I haven’t even listened to it yet, but it’s supposed to be pretty ambiant too. It’s the only Torrance one on there, so feel free to browse for it until I post and have listened to it and have a link.

Short Update

Again, not feeling great, but that is to be expected out of my body. I’m programming about 7 hours per day if not more so my public code will only really change on the weekends when i feel up to it.

On the music front, Cardamar has put together a new mix. It’s another really nice one. Personally (at least today), I prefer Globespinning (which was his last mix), but his latest mix, Colours Come And Go is still wonderful. It has a greater spectrum and gets dark like Cardamar does best. Honestly, i’m not into the dark and slow yet intense feeling today (massive headache), so the lighter feel of globespinning is what makes it my favorite today. Do not miss this new one though. It’s quite nice. It’s on the music mirror with md5 hash if you want to download. Cardamar will probably release the tracklist in the next couple days (when he gets the time).

Hopefully tomorrow I can post about 2 classic cds i got this week. Classic is such a weak term for one though. Just amazing.

Life gets you

Some bad stuff has recently happened in my life so a lot is being delayed. I appologize. I’ll try to get back on track soon.

Oh and Opera 9 beta 2 passes the ACID 2 test. I find this great. The widgets are kind of neat as well. You might want to take another look at opera. It does integrated content blocking like adblock finally.

Programming and Movies

Since I have done a lot since I’ve updated, I decided to break this into two posts. This one is about basically everything except music.

Well, my job is looking at making some web applications with me heading the project. Luckly, I got the department head to agree to load Zend Studio Corporate for me and one other person. This should be fun. Doing this makes me want to push off any major coding projects that were going to take my free time. I’m going to be coding about seven to eight hours per day. I don’t think my free time should be taken up by that too. I might change my mind though. This means any ideas that I’ve said about zpProjects are on hold probably until after summer.

See “Movies” in the title and wonder why it’s there? I guess I’ve never posted about movies before since I really don’t watch many. I finally got my dvd of Elephant’s Dream. I bought the dvd since I know Jan Morgenstern of Wavemage Productions. It was expensive, but I like supporting artists (I always send extra to Cardamar for the cds). I really was impressed. Jan did an amazing job on the sound and it was a pretty cool short. It is available for download from the above link. Consider buying a dvd to support the guys if you like it.

I also was given a short movie to process. This consisted of Windows Movie Maker and iMovie (the second was my final choice). This is a non-artist’s view of both.
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