Archive for February, 2003



concert going

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Got the festival tickets yesterday. I have decided I will go. Gotta find a friend who can come now

Cornelius concert in about 2 weeks! GOTTA go see him. (tix are $66.40)

Gerling are supporting him so that’s even better! I’ve wanted to see them again. Girlfriend and I saw them once at last [...]

How to combat spam

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Over the 7-8 years of my internet usage, these are the things I have realised or learnt how to thwart potential spammers. I’ve had my email address for over 2 years and I get 1-2 spams a month. Pretty good from what I hear other people get. This is without some other kind of spam [...]

soundidge

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sweet as! some people have got Linux running on the iPodWill be good to see what comes out of this! Doesn’t play mp3’s in realtime yet, but it will get there I’m sure

Looking for a particular sound? try findsounds.com

My Mum won these tickets  to the Melbourne International Music and Blues Festival. She gave them [...]

Pants and Things

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My girlfriend has made her first pair of fitted pants. She has done VERY well. mmmmmm

(*correction, they are Fly front Fitted pants. sorry baby

girl “almost finished, what do you think? look ok?”

boy “oh nice. they look really good”
girl “thanks, they have turned out well. look at the good job i did [...]

What have I been doing lately?

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Well firstly, the last two years for me have been pretty shitty. Health problems got me really down. I had pains around my lower ribs. After a scan of this area, they found a lump on my kidney “argh crap” shit load of tests later, the doctors where not very helpful; the lump was most [...]

Open source music interface ideas :)

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Ideas for controlling an audio app in real time. The thinking behind this is to help using a laptop more like a real time instrument without the use of external midi controllers

idea #1: Improving the XY controller

Multiple XY controllers on screen. All XYs are assignable to multiple effects parameters.
A single click on the XY controller [...]

Oh boy! I love Parker Lewis can’t Lose! It really is clever and well done. I also love the style of cinematography. Classic early 90s teen comedy. I’ve been watching re-runs on cable TV. loads of fun!

Side note: I am REALLY looking forward to the Logic 6 update! Freeze track will extend the life of [...]

monophonic fun

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Just been playing with Urs Heckmanns new Rumblence:zoyd AudioUnit Instrument synth some more. Playing it directly from my tiBook keyboard using MidiKeys. I have MidiKeys running in the background and use option+shift+keys on the tiBook keyboard to play notes into Logic Audio in which zoyd is running.

Its early days for Zoyd yet, but it [...]

my doggie is cute

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For those reading this that don’t know me very well, or at all, I have a dog! yep. his name is Atari  woof! He is a harrier hound.

He even has his own website! Don’t tell him i know. He is trying to keep it a secret. Dogs do the darnest things don’t they?  [...]

Space Shuttle ‘Columbia’

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NASA Space Shuttle Columbia has been lost on re-entry.

As of now, its still not certain, at least publicly what and how it has happened.

Some fragments, perhaps tiles and foam fell off on take off. This has happened before in prior flights without ill effect though. Experts studied this and breakage and determined it should not [...]



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Cris Pearson from Melbourne, Australia.
Grew up in George Town, Tasmania.

CEO, co-founder, interaction + interface + graphic
+ web designer at plasq.

We are best known for Comic Life which was bundled with Millions of Apple Macs and now the much lauded, Skitch!.

Non plasq projects:
Loqalize - Open software translation web service
tequp - tech and art meetups
UI Review - Flickr group for peer UI reviews

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