September 25, 2008
stumbled upon this photo of the locust-gig in the fluc, roughly one year aog. one of these blurry people in second or third row is me i guess.
stumbled upon this photo of the locust-gig in the fluc, roughly one year aog. one of these blurry people in second or third row is me i guess.
September 23, 2008
duncan larkin, 1959 - 2008.goodbye.
duncan larkin, 1959 - 2008.
goodbye.
September 22, 2008
i suck at singing. rockband just told me that, by giving me a hard time with “say it ain’t so” and “creep”. on the easy-setting, no less. although after these feeble attempts, all the noise in the flats around me died off, so maybe it still does some good. also, running through the room, assuming every position in order to determine possible problems with volume-mixing almost seems like fun. it’s even slowly starting to shape up.
September 16, 2008

turns out virtually everybody has forgotten about last week, and we’ll probably won’t even release on OUR aspired date. three cheers for indecisiveness.

the new metallica is impressive. “that was just your life” is a song (or at least a hookline) that’s annoyingly hard to get out of your head. maybe even beats gematria as opener-track of the year, or something like that.

September 14, 2008

insomniaway

crashed on my couch yesterday at 8 and woke up some 11 or 12 hours later. still feeling dizzy, but it’s nice being able to sleep again at last. also, getting cold around here, so hooray for beloved longsleeves.
September 12, 2008
so the project i’ve been working on the whole week is shaping up quite good. we were even ready to negotiate to release it in 1 week, opposed to the suggested spring-date. but, alas, higher authorities now opt for - tuesday. so all the work scheduled for next week should be crammed in 2 days. or even better just today, for testing and feedback and stuff. and in a watzlawick’ian hammer-metaphor, i already anticipate that credit will be given everywhere but where credit is due.
September 10, 2008

lessons learned:

  • mobilephone-browsers like to interpret using xhtml-standards
  • on principle, xhtml makes totally sense
  • if you have lots of wild, wild php-scripted pages that have to be converted to xhtml-compliancy, you’ll hate xhtml
  • the parts of these that aren’t your own work only spice things up
  • the w3.org-validator is a present from jebus
  • <input type=”checkbox” name=”station[]” value=”108” /> is, against all my fears, SO compliant
  • on the other hand, i SO do not get xml-encoding-declaration, but even the w3, tentatively, doesn’t give a hoot
September 4, 2008
not saying that dr. strangelove is a bad movie, or that either peter sellers or stanley kubrick aren’t geniuses - but that film really did not live up to my expectations. of course, when you switch to “where was this referenced?”-mode after about 5 minutes, that’s not the films fault. but in the end it was 2001: space odyssey all over again - good movie but not igniting a spark.
August 31, 2008

i survived 2daw, without anything stolen or any damages. maybe some strain for the lung from whatever our neighbours were burning the last night (my guess: everything). serj was good, as was dredg and disco ensemble. less than jake too, including one gigantic circle pit (starring joey as “the survivor”). soulfly was kind of disappointing, but probably blameable on the wind. not much more that i’ve seen. although slipknot was on every soundmachine and on every third t-shirt, if that counts.

now i’m working my way through season 2 of criminal minds and my night is gonna be even stranger than the last one.