So I’ve been reviewing my site lately and have decided a few things:
(1) I need to do a redesign, I’m just not sure what I want to do. (In other words, that won’t happen for a year).

(2) My DVD list is severely out of date. There are gobs of anime DVDs that I don’t have listed.

(3) I really need to finish up my brunch site.

(4) There is no four.

(5) I’m actually decent at this PHP stuff.

(6) OS X is lacking just a bit when it comes to a web browser. While OmniWeb for OS X is quite cool, it’s still a bit lacking in the javascript area (For instance, blogger doesn’t get along real well with it). There’s IE, but I don’t like it as much and I find myself missing the features that OmniWeb does have (the ad blocking stuff built into it rules).

(7) I forgot to take my protonix last night and woke up this morning with evil heartburn.

Well I certainly feel like a geek tonight.

After browsing around looking at a few different blogs today I noticed a lot of them have a space for comments. I was intrigued and started trying to figure out how to do it. I even emailed this one person who was doing some even more interesting things for comments. In the end I decided to just sit down and work something out. I’d say that for inspiration, the individual at http://www.stormwerks.com/linked/ had a site that provided the most inspiration. Based off the stuff there I started doing some PHP coding to see what I could come up with. I have to say I’m quite happy with what I came up with. Blogger actually works quite well when it comes to working this stuff out.

So, definitely let me know what you think. I’ll be curious to see if anything shows up in the comments at all.

Time for sleep now.

New feature (I think) for my site. The LOTD (Link of the day).
Today. Hello Kitty Tetris
(I think that’s all that need be said (except for crediting the cool blog that I found it at.)

Okay,
So a couple of quick changes to the page. First, I fixed the launchcast link, since it was a little bit broken. I’m also playing around with the template for the page a little bit. Look for some small changes to it as I work through how I want things to look exactly.

Well, my blog from yesterday WOULD have worked if I had put in the right password for my ftp account.

So I figure I’ll do some updating today. I just started listening to a CD that I got the other day “San Francisco Sessions, Vol. 3”, it’s a mix CD by Garth from SF and it is really good. It’s got that nice west coast SF house sound. I keep thinking I’d like to spin more of this stuff, but it would be quite a change for me. For now i’m just working on learning more about this style of house.

I’ve tried to shop online for records for the past three days and just have not been finding anything that I like. It is really frustrating me. I’m not sure if there’s just nothing good coming out or if I’m just in one of those down times where nothing I listen to sounds right. I think I may need to go into the record store and just listen to things there for a bit. A lot of times that’ll get me into a different mood musicwise.

I’ve started looking around more at other people’s blogs to see what they are up to. I think I may have to start trying to do some more things with mine. Whatcha think?

First off. I’m trying this little BlogThis! button that was on my menubar. I’m not quite sure when I put it there, but this will be a nice test of it.

So it’s the 4th of July. And I haven’t done much of anything all day. I cleaned for a bit, and am doing a little bit of laundry, but I just haven’t felt that social so I haven’t made a huge effort to track down something to do tonight.

I’ve also been coughing more then usual. I think it has to do with my prednisone dose going down. My pulmonologist feels that we shouldn’t raise the dose though, since I’ve actually been losing weight since I dropped my dose. He did give me some cough syrup with codine, which definitely helps a bit.

I’ve been watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus for the last two hours on BBC America. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. There are some great shows on it.

My employees rock.

Since the beginning of the year I’ve been moving more into the role of IT manager at work. I have about 5 people that report to me and am slowly learning how all this kind of stuff works. Today was a cool day for me because we had a problem with our firewall at work and Jim, the on call person, took care of everything with the help of our resident firewall expert (Lenny). It’s just a nice feeling that I can relax some while not on call.

I think that air conditioning must be one of the greatest things mankind has ever come up with.

Yesterday I drove down to CT to see my sister, who is at my parent’s place for a few days. The extra bonus is that she brought along my newphew. He’s just over two and so funny. He’s quite a handful. My parent’s place has one problem though. No air conditioning. They have one a/c, but it was in the closet. In CT yesterday it was in the 90s and very humid. I was a bit overtired and have been coughing a little bit more then usual lately, so the humidity was just killing me. I was extremely miserable. Finally, at the end of the day, my dad put the a/c in. I have barely left the room since then :). I finally got the really good sleep that I’d needed to for the past day or so. It is really amazing what 12 hours of sleep can do.

I just got a call from work. We lost all the connectivity from our offices to the outside world. Luckily this doesn’t affect our web sites, but it does affect the ability of our finance people to be working on their end of quarter reports.

It’s great to see my sister too. We haven’t had a chance to talk much, but I think she’s glad to get up to New England, even if it is to just visit for a few days.

(This blog is going to go up to my site later on because I currently can’t get to my machine at work through the net)

Hot damn.
I just got the DAT of my set from the beach party and as I write this I’m recording it onto computer. I haven’t even really listened to it yet. I can’t wait to hear how it comes out.

I think this is going to be a mostly music related blog today. First off. I’ve been trading emails with this very cool singer/songwriter by the name of Edie Carey. I mentioned her last week as I went to see her and a few other singers perform (See my post two days ago, the one about Live From New York). A day or two after the performance I saw I got an email from her mentioning a few upcoming gigs. This kind of email is fairly common in the folk music community. Most performers have mailing lists (both snail and email) that they use to keep people updated on upcoming performances. I emailed her back to say that I really enjoyed their show and to also say that I thought it was so cool how much interaction they had with people who liked them. Since then we’ve been emailing back and forth now and then and it’s gotten me to thinking more about the similarities between that and the electronic music scene. Both groups tend to be more on the fringes of popular music. Every once in a while you’ll get a track that may break out and get some mainstream play, but for the most part the scenes exist in their own worlds. Both groups also tend to have a fairly close interaction with their fans. While some DJs I know of have mailing lists, I don’t think it is quite as common as what I’ve seen in the folk scene. Both groups release recordings of their works. DJs have mixtapes/CDs and almost every folk singer I’ve seen has CDs of their work.

I just think the whole thing is very cool. Because it is two very different types of music with very different communities of people who support them (You don’t see masses of kids dancing all night long to folk music ;)).

I spun out twice this last weekend. The first time was Saturday night. I spun at a club called Vapor in Boston. They have this cool back lounge where they have guest DJs spin. I had a great time. The sound in the booth was amazing, even if it was hot as hell there. Big thanks to everyone who came out to see me and especially to Mario, Mike, and Bree for having me out there to spin. The only thing that sucked is that the club is so damn smokey. I really have to say that my clubbing days are probably going to dwindle down to nothing as I get closer to my transplant. The smoke really drives me nuts (though sometimes it feels like as much as I cough it can’t make that much of a difference :)). Then on Sunday me and some of the other Changmian DJs spun at Hangover Easy. Hangover Easy is this weekly event that takes place at this local Howard Johnsons. Actually it’s at the restaurant at one. It takes place every sunday from noon till like 7 or so and they have local Boston DJ crews come in and spin mellow tunes and serve brunch all day. It’s quite nice. I spun mostly deep house and had quite a good time.

I’m now 30 minutes into my set and it is sounding quite good! Hopefully I should have this up and online this afternoon.

I just wanted to make a quick post letting folks know that I’ll be spinning this Saturday night in the lounge at Vapor on Stuart Street in Boston. I believe that I’m going on from 12:30-2am, and will probably be spinning a fairly housey set. I’m psyched about it because I love the venue and I think they have a really great night going on there. If you want details, please feel free to drop me a line and I’ll let you know more details as I know them.

I’m hoping to start work on a new mix CD tonight. Possibly even that I will have available next Saturday night if it all works out well. If I can swing it I will also try and have recordings of my set from the beach party the other week.