Ajax saved my life!
13th September 2006, Ajax, Other, Trends0 Comments
Now, I’m enjoying emerging trends of the web as much as the next coder out there, but this morning something really got on my nerves. It was on the BBC breakfast, they’re basically taking a cutting edge internet theme each morning for 10 minutes and explaining it out in a non web-savvy manner for their audience. This, in general, I think is a good thing. There I am thinking my Dad could do with watching it.
Problem is they had an American Internet Entrepreneur on today. First thing that came out of his mouth? “Exciting things are happening everywhere - Ajax is a great new component that makes things like mySpace possible, they wouldn’t exist without it.”
Now I may be paraphrasing him, but what a tool. Don’t hyperbole when the target audience just wants a basic understanding. And his statement was simply untrue. (more…)
The suffering, the pain
12th September 2006, Music, Technology0 Comments
So I’m onto my third rebuild of my PC trying to get the balance between jukebox and serious music making tool sorted. I’ve decided it’s just not possible. Every permutation I’ve tried has promised much and after a little dabbling resulting in nothing different. With MP11 I almost got it, but after my first recording session in Live everything fell apart again.
I’ve come to the conclusion, until unix get some decent music application support or in the unlikely event that Vista actually delivers on its promises, my only way forward is to set up a dual boot XP machine. One for recording, the other for everything else.
Now you know what I’m doing the next few days.
