December 2009

new site to-do list

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or "bug" list (not sure which yet)

1. need self-designed "fecal molecule" favicon from previous blog design
2. "without comments" line needs to be hidden in individual post URLs
3. "without comments" line needs to be hidden in search results
4. reduce size of post titles?
5. change color of post titles?
6. delete blue frames around images that are also links, e.g.: this one
7. Separate links to my content from "blogroll," e.g. "my artwork," "tm at Nasty Nets"
8. Rename "blogroll"?
9. "posted by tom moody" instead of "Written by..."? [used "-tom moody" for post signatures]
10. More padding below post titles? (titles and images are almost merging, conceptually, at this point)

(work in process--sorry this is boring)

site upgrade

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Many thanks to Edward Potter for helping me navigate the tricky currents and deadly tide pools of a Word Press upgrade. We made what's known in the WP community as the Big Jump (TM), from version 1.5 to 2.8.6. Tweaks will continue to be made and I know many will miss the vaguely military green of the Word Press Classic theme.

If you are on an RSS reader please click on through for a glimpse at the "so new it's old" site.

mild threat

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We have some open file directories here at blog central and in the spirit of the '90s web don't mind having a few images circulating around. This isn't a license for some lazy web designer to hotlink an animation for a heavily-trafficked commercial site. Our research team has discovered one such malfeasor and the .gif URL has been changed twice. Do it again, Mr. or Ms. Highly Unoriginal, and your clients will have an amusing surprise the next time that image is loaded. (This appears to be a legit business, not your run of the mill bandwidth scarfer.)

site bugs

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Apologies if you are seeing strange code at the top of the page or experiencing any other site difficulties. I am attempting to upgrade to a higher version of Word Press and it may take a few days to get things straightened out.

Update: It appears my RSS feeds aren't valid, either.

Update 2: I think the feeds are fixed.

"Hog Heaven (Drum Solo)"

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"Hog Heaven (Drum Solo)" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]

Have been wanting to trim, slice, and accelerate an actual '70s break beat for awhile. I finally did it. (It's hard work--props to djs who accomplished this in the '90s with primitive gear.) This is not a major occasion--I'm being a little ironic. Anyway the historic break comes in here at...well, you'll know when (and no, it's not "Amen, Brother.") It plays for three bars and would have gone out of sync with the timing of the surrounding beats, if I hadn't painstakingly written a fourth bar, using MIDI notes trigger the sliced drum samples from the break loop. The inserted notes didn't work at all until I applied some "MIDI echo"--then miraculously the beat matched the rest of the song.

Anyway the technical term for this solo is "hard as fuck." (Talking here about the style, not the level of difficulty.) I also manipulated the timing of the surrounding commercial drum loop.

(Deep thought for later--could a poet use the linguistic or phoneme-generating software equivalent of MIDI echo to conform a phrase to the meter of a poem?)