Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Author: <span>Paul Frields</span>

Buried alive.

It’s been a very hectic week between work, finishing preparations for a teaching gig in D.C. last week, and trying to complete rough mixes for the band’s preproduction demo that wouldn’t embarrass me in front of our producer. Thankfully, I got to see a lot of the kids this weekend …

Real engineering.

Spent a great weekend doing preproduction recording for the band in preparation for recording our next CD, a 5-song EP we’ll be recording at Assembly Line Studios in Vienna. An abbreviated journal: Friday, August 5 Kisses and hugs for the whole family as I leave for what Eleya suspects is …

Birds of a feather.

Karsten and I are so much alike in some ways it’s scary. On the other hand, he’s probably skinny as a rail, thanks to that healthy California lifestyle. Curse you, surfer dude! I am, however, a little worried by our mutual tendency to get bored; I hope that doesn’t bode …

Practicing what I preach.

When I first tried Ogg Vorbis, the free and open-source codec for compressed audio files (think “like MP3”), I was unimpressed. That was several years ago. At the time, even many MP3 compression utilities were using a substandard version of the MP3 codec — Xing springs to mind. These versions …

God, damn them.

The bastards are at it again in London… fire and smoke are reported in the London Underground. It appears that terrorists have struck the heart of London again. I don’t think they realize how this steels the British resolve. At least this time it appears casualties are nil. Update: Appears …

Slave to the rigor.

I was not really astonished to read this article about people who throw out their computers rather than keep cleaning spyware, virii and worms off their systems. Wow, come to think of it… how much time did I spend doing that in the last year? Zero. I feel honest pity …

Heck week.

Pushmi-pullyu. Next week is going to be a Fedora Documentation Project “push to publish” endeavor. I have a few things I’ve been nipping on by the morsel, but I’m going to take some hefty bites this weekend. (Or, alternately, they will bite back.) Best. Reply. Ever. There has been a …