Bad Tech Week

Rather than work on anything productive, I've been stuck. It all started when my machine started hanging for sometimes brief, sometimes long periods. Because I'm a geek, I was able to correlate these hangs with an error message in the logs which lead me (with help from Google land) to conclude that I had a dying disk drive on my hands.

Now I don't trust my machine to keep my data safe. So I'm not making anything new. Made a little bit easier by the fact that it's the beginning of July (which means day(s) off for most North Americans).

I wait here for my new harddrive, fretting about the restore process which will surely leave me with a slightly broken install of Logic and Live, slightly broken songs, links to samples that have strangely disappeared or been slightly corrupted.

What kind of geek would I be if I only had one machine? Of course I had another machine. And of course, it also self-destructed in some weird way which led me to install a different OS onto the thing... then a power failure took out the VPN to work as well as some other server bits.

This sux. But maybe having my journey detour like this is will provide some time to pay attention to the blog...

The Obligatory First Post

Many years ago, while rooting around the internet looking for stuff on Robert Fripp I discovered his online diary. He and many of his colleagues had taken to keeping online diaries. The reasons for this activity were interesting, even if I didn't understand completely. I just knew that I enjoyed reading them. I knew nothing of Robert the human being. I came upon his writing because I was interested in his music.

This activity is now common place and many people share pieces of themselves in what we call blogs. (I had always thought him a man ahead of his time)

I am somewhat reluctantly entering into the blogosphere because part of me feels that it's an act of extreme hubris to engage in this activity. Who really gives a rats ass what I have to say? I don't know. Possibly no one.

That said, in the last couple of years, I have reconnected with my youth in a way that still surprises me and I'm starting to think that they journey might be worth sharing. This journey hasn't been and will never be linear and as such I make no promises about how it'll replay in these pages.

So welcome and may you find something here worth the time you spent reading.