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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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4:14p
Ukuleles...
So I had gotten a Kala Kiwi soprano ukulele, but it just didn't sound right to me. I sent it back for adjustments. Instead the seller sent me a new one, but it's not like the one I had before, not having the pretty glossy back and sides (which match the top), plus he had forgotten to put the strap button in as I had requested. Not a happy camper.
I talked to him on the phone, and I'll be sending it back for a full refund.
With that refund money and the money I've been saving, I'm probably going to get a concert Fluke. Stay tuned.
current mood: mixed emotions
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(comment on this) Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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schaden_freude
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7:02p
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2:27p
Mostly music
I did a little ukulele music video that is really just a chord progression for a beginners contest entry. I doubt I'm gonna win anything, as I am not a serious picker, just a simple strummer. But it's fun to get involved in these contests anyway. :-)
I wrote a song in the middle of the night last night. I got the words down, then sneaked as far into the back as I could with my little handheld tape recorder and sheet of paper with the words on and sang very very softly. I did not want to forget the melody like I had on a previous song!
Cat'r is probably not coming over tonight, as he's kinda tuckered out, so I'll probably do a video of the new song tonight, after it gets dark. It's called "A Wish".
ETA: I made the video--really dark (literally), but here it is.
current mood:  okay
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(comment on this) Friday, November 6th, 2009
loqia
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6:22a
Four Reasons Everyone Should Love Wave
So, as some of you may have guessed by now, in the last couple of days I’ve turned into a total wave fangirl. I know, I know — hipster, much — but it’s true. Thing is, though, it seems that a lot of people out there don’t share my squee; there’s a lot of “meh” going around re. wave right now, coupled with a dash of “this sucks”. I suppose I can kinda see why. Wave is in a fairly limited release, so people are feeling a bit lonely. You jump on wave, ready to be all like NEXT GEN COMMUNICATION YEAH! only to find you’ve got no-one to communicate with. So maybe you reach out to with:public, except now instead of feeling NEXT GEN YEAH! you’re starting to feel like you’ve suddenly been thrown back into Usenet after the first AOL invasion.
And it’s like, “Wait. This was supposed to be the Next Big Thing?”
Well, yes sort of. But mostly no. And here are the four main reasons why.
Hold onto your hats, kids, because this? This gets wordy.
( Wave is not Google (Wave) )
( Why Wave Makes My Inner Mail Admin Squee )
( How Wave Could Kill Facebook (but Probably Won’t… Yet) )
( Why Microsoft Wants Wave (but Might Not Admit It) )
The Shiny, Wavey Future
I guess I’ve gone kinda nutso on the predictions here, and I suppose I feel obliged to point out I haven’t really talked about either time-frames or probabilities. If I had to guess, I say we’ll see wave adopted as a social networking tool before it’s adopted as a business tool, but conversely I think it’s more likely in the long run to be adopted by business than it is to replace Facebook and Twitter’s databases. There are also a significant number of hurdles to overcome with wave’s deployment: Real-time communication models are hard to scale; The storage requirements sound like they could be terrifying; What about “offline mode”? People still really like email… All that sort of stuff.
Still, the thing I like about wave is that it’s full of potential and incredibly daring. I mean, re-writing email? People’ve been talking about doing that for years and no-one’s managed to pull it off. Re-writing email and completely changing the paradigm it’s based on? Margaret Thatcher’s balls, man! Wave is either going to change the way the internet works or be the biggest white elephant in IT history.
Personally? I’m hoping for the former. It’s just more exciting that way.
See you in the future.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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