It's My Anniversary!
I have had my own website for exactly one year!!! How thrilling! I have gone from setting up my own personal and business sites to maiking sites for others. How cool is that? I remember when I first started doing this, it was like I stumbled onto some new drug. I could put up whatever I wanted, and within seconds, the whole world could see it. Wicked!
I haven't written in a bit, but with good cause. I've been both sick, and busy. But I think I am recovering from both, and so, here I am, killing a few minutes before I have to pick up my baby from school. What have I been up to? Well, for starters, I've been developing a great affection for Visual Basic.NET. I never thought I would ever want to be a programmer ("Too meticulous and detail oriented!" I often protested, which makes sense for a guy who is constantly losing his cell phone, his wallet, his keys, his laptop, his mind...), but I am actually very comfortable with it now. Comfortable (?!) This is my 5th or sixth language now, let me see. I learned Basic and Pascal back in the day (10 Print "YOU RULE"; 20 GOTO 10 ) but I can't count those, since they have no practical use these days. So let's begin again: Java, C/C++, PHP, Visual Basic.NET, and some of the lesser languages like SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, Javascript, and Perl. I CAN DO THIS!! When I graduate this summer, should I jump back into corporate America, I feel capable of stepping into any IT modality with ease!! Woo hoo!
Aside from enjoying coding (and setting my inner geek free) I have been writing more new music. I have written some original pieces (where I play every instrument) as well as sampling older stuff and combining it with other elements and turning it into something modern and funky. -Hey, Puffy has made millions doing it. Matter of fact, I need to put together a list of songs that need to be reduxed. I has listening to the SOS band the other day, and I can't believe no one has messed with "Weekend Girl". That song is tight, even after all these years. Of course, Mariah Carey sampled "Tell Me (If You Still Care)" from them for the remix of "Always Be My Baby", which I loved, and Jay-Z and Foxy Brown ripped "Just Be Good to Me" for some lame song, which I hated. My latest sampled piece is not very old at all. It is taken from Amerie's first single, "Why Do We Fall In Love", which came out in 2002, but I must have missed. I heard her latest song, "1 Thing" and liked both her vocals and the totally un-formulaic music behind it, so I decided to see what else the child had done. "Why Don't We" uses a sample of a song I can't place, speeds it up and adds some funky drums. What I have done is add some really nice little touches to what is already a nice piece, and VOILA! I'm in love. I'm playing it all the time to the point that my wife is sick of hearing it. Oh, it's time to bounce. Funny... I have the feeling I was just getting started. I need to write a little more often.
I haven't written in a bit, but with good cause. I've been both sick, and busy. But I think I am recovering from both, and so, here I am, killing a few minutes before I have to pick up my baby from school. What have I been up to? Well, for starters, I've been developing a great affection for Visual Basic.NET. I never thought I would ever want to be a programmer ("Too meticulous and detail oriented!" I often protested, which makes sense for a guy who is constantly losing his cell phone, his wallet, his keys, his laptop, his mind...), but I am actually very comfortable with it now. Comfortable (?!) This is my 5th or sixth language now, let me see. I learned Basic and Pascal back in the day (10 Print "YOU RULE"; 20 GOTO 10 ) but I can't count those, since they have no practical use these days. So let's begin again: Java, C/C++, PHP, Visual Basic.NET, and some of the lesser languages like SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, Javascript, and Perl. I CAN DO THIS!! When I graduate this summer, should I jump back into corporate America, I feel capable of stepping into any IT modality with ease!! Woo hoo!
Aside from enjoying coding (and setting my inner geek free) I have been writing more new music. I have written some original pieces (where I play every instrument) as well as sampling older stuff and combining it with other elements and turning it into something modern and funky. -Hey, Puffy has made millions doing it. Matter of fact, I need to put together a list of songs that need to be reduxed. I has listening to the SOS band the other day, and I can't believe no one has messed with "Weekend Girl". That song is tight, even after all these years. Of course, Mariah Carey sampled "Tell Me (If You Still Care)" from them for the remix of "Always Be My Baby", which I loved, and Jay-Z and Foxy Brown ripped "Just Be Good to Me" for some lame song, which I hated. My latest sampled piece is not very old at all. It is taken from Amerie's first single, "Why Do We Fall In Love", which came out in 2002, but I must have missed. I heard her latest song, "1 Thing" and liked both her vocals and the totally un-formulaic music behind it, so I decided to see what else the child had done. "Why Don't We" uses a sample of a song I can't place, speeds it up and adds some funky drums. What I have done is add some really nice little touches to what is already a nice piece, and VOILA! I'm in love. I'm playing it all the time to the point that my wife is sick of hearing it. Oh, it's time to bounce. Funny... I have the feeling I was just getting started. I need to write a little more often.
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