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Tech talk.

This is old content from my previous blog, EveryGoodBoyDeservesFruit.com. Check out the new stuff too.

Hopefully within the next month, if I can scratch together some money in my paypal account, I’ll be setting myself up with a real hosting plan. Yes, the time has come to depart from my DIY hosting and pay a few dollars for your sake (I often hear how slow my site is to view). If anyone has a few dollars they could spare, I’d really appreciate it. I calculated the total cost of my website should be a staggering $21.08 US per year. If a handful of people could throw a couple of dollars my way, it would obviously help, and possibly almost entirely cover the costs. If you have a few dollars lying around, please send me an email. If you don’t want to – no dramas.

Also there are talks of a change in domain name. As most of my friends suffer from crippling mental deficiencies, they often have troubles remembering my domain name, and working the bookmarks/favourites is just a challenge I’d rather not see them fail, so keep your eyes peeled for changes.

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  1. Tammy says:

    Hey!, my deficiencies arent MY fault, i cant help it if pollutants and toxins have been absorbed by my person, its all those polluting multinationals spreading there filthy gases.

  2. Tammy says:

    Oh, and by the way, i cant remember your OLD address, let alone this new one .. in fact i have no idea how i got here.

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Transposed Frustrations

This is old content from my previous blog, EveryGoodBoyDeservesFruit.com. Check out the new stuff too.

So I spent all friday night – or was it saturday night, or both? – transposing the title song from Cabaret. I turn up to rehearsal today only to find out it shouldn’t have been transposed at all – it was in the right key to begin with. This is not just a case of me being clumsy, I was told over and over I was to rush through this transposition (ie. spend my weekend doing it). Deep breaths. I’ll get through this surge of emotion.

Also, at rehearsal today one of the cast apologised for ‘taking his frustrations out’ at me last rehearsal. I didn’t really notice. Oh well.

This has been overshadowed by the news that i’ll be musically directing a show I really love this summer break. I’m very excited, even though it means i’ll be spending my birthday weekend in a theatre auditioning people. Oh well – the price you pay.

Let me remind you that a podcast is on its way – I just need a block of a few hours to edit it together, and I’d rather not start it now.

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  1. Kevin WIlson says:

    How does someone get to the point of continually tell you a song needs transposing when it doesn’t? These people have done this kind of work before right?

    What a nice birthday present for you – something you love to do.

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Premonitions

This is old content from my previous blog, EveryGoodBoyDeservesFruit.com. Check out the new stuff too.

I’m making an effort to clean out my hard drive and remove all the files I use to piece together each podcast, as many wave files take up a lot of space. I do like to archive everything possible, but I figure that deleting them now will help me later on when I decide to go through them again. It might cut down the stuff available to me, but it will also cut down the amount of time needed to traul through it. I’m probably even going to go as far as removing the wave file mix downs and the Audacity work files and keep only the compressed files that are distributed and made available for download. No high quality CD release in the future, it seems.

I also got a hair cut yesterday, the first day I’ve had free for a couple of weeks. It’s really quite short again, it hasn’t been this short since many cuts ago. I must say, it wasn’t a good sign when I sat down in the chair, and looked up on top of a set of shelfs to the right of the mirror and there is a small fishbowl with a lovely purple fish floating upside in it. I tried to tell myself it was sleeping, but if the lack of food didn’t kill it, the overpowering density of nail polish fumes and hair spray certainly would have made breathing difficult for the poor thing.

Oh, and did I really talk about envelopes for most of my first podcast? Oh dear…

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  1. Kevin WIlson says:

    Have you considered converting all the little bits and pieces to MP3s before you start sticking them together rather than using wav files? I assume that you use a program that allows you to edit MP3 files directly rather than edit then convert.

  2. Tyson says:

    I use Audacity on the mac, a freeware program, but the way it works is when you import a file to use it in the multitrack editor, it converts it to many little wav files anyway.

    However, most of the source audio comes from MP3s – my portable recorder which I also use when I’m at the desk and doing Skype records directly to MP3. It’s Audacity that makes the MP3s.

    I might just burn everything to a DVD. The first 10 podcasts (9 plus Phyllis’ effort) take up 4.4 gigs.

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