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Music 6,000 Friends & Facebook

Finally passed the 6,000 mark, which is humbling. Hello to all my new friends. :o) I also created a Facebook group for Symphoniacal fans. If you don’t have Facebook, I…

Dec 31, 2007
Music 5,000 Friends and Mininova

The friends keep piling up and so do the downloads! Mostly thanks to shameless self-promotion and BitTorrent, Symphoniacal has started to spread through the internet like a dark and beautiful…

Dec 22, 2007
Music Mininova Content Distribution

Mininova.org has added Symphoniacal to their content distribution list. From now on, if you want to download it, this would be the best way. There are plenty of seeds and…

Dec 22, 2007
Music Version 7.0 Now Available

If you’ve never heard Symphoniacal all the way through, there has never been a better time to give it a listen. Even if you have heard it before, it’d be…

Dec 21, 2007
Music 4,000 friends and counting…

It seems like every time I sign on there are a hundred new friends. I am surprised by the response so far, and I am looking forward to releasing the…

Dec 17, 2007
Music 3,000 Friends on MySpace

Hello to all my new MySpace friends! I’m saying that because more than 90% of this profile’s friends are new as of the past couple weeks. And it’s good timing,…

Dec 13, 2007
Shared Fantastic Neighborhood Light Show

My cousin just sent this to me, and MAN is it cool! What’s even cooler is that his house is the one on the right. :o) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u44TL0Wv_S8 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erLUGpCwsxc httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZmda5tK4k

Dec 13, 2007
Music Version 6.9: “The Rage Virus”

Okay, so I’m closing in on the big 7.0 release, which will be the last one until I can find more time to work on it (or if some great…

Dec 13, 2007
Music Version 6.8: “Massive Buildup”

There are major changes taking place and I’m getting really excited about them. Though there is plenty of work left to do before I can release version 7, I am…

Dec 7, 2007
Music Version 6.7: “Ode to Beethoven”

Though the title of this version is about Beethoven, there were no songs added by him on this one. It’s called this because I recently discovered that the 74-minute CD…

Dec 4, 2007
Music Version 6.6: “Villians”

So, I made a decision to do a major shift and now there are several songs added, a couple songs removed, and large chunks being moved around. This is the…

Dec 2, 2007
Music Version 6.5: “Upgrades”

I upgraded from Adobe Audition 1.5 to 3.0 and decided to spend this version updating little problems and tweaking things that always bother me. Most listeners won’t notice a difference,…

Nov 30, 2007
Blog No Wii. Why? No $.

Why You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Wii Annotated I have owned a Nintendo since 1985, and I’ve never owned an Xbox, a Sega, a PlayStation, or anything since…

Nov 29, 2007
Music Version 6.4 “Dinosaur” Now Available

Added: “Ocean Whispers” from Pirates of the Caribbean by Klaus Badelt – Just felt like it fit nicely and gave it a little more darkness without adding too much melody…

Nov 26, 2007
Articles You Can’t Waste a Worthless Vote

I know how this is going to make me look to some people, but I just stop reading certain emails when I realize it’s their attempt to convince me that…

Nov 17, 2007
Articles A “Cool Heads” Global Warming Discussion

Or, lets say that we are NOT the cause of global warming. Then that frees us of the burden of having to correct it, right? Wrong. Even if we're not the cause of it, it's happening anyway. So, doesn't it seem like a good idea to plan for the future?

Oct 25, 2007
Articles Global Temperatures and Human Activity

I recently got into another discussion about global warming, and the person I was talking to said they weren’t convinced that humans were the cause of it. Though it’s just…

Oct 15, 2007
Blog Why I Miss Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle’s show was absolutely brilliant for the first couple seasons because he got to be open about humor with complete disregard for race. It allowed for some truly historic…

Oct 9, 2007
Blog Sasha Metze (2002-2007)

We buried our cat, Sasha, today. She was about five years old, independent as can be, and only had one kitten (Spot, who lives with Erin and me). I’ll spare…

Sep 30, 2007