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September 26, 2006

My CD, Histamine Apocalypse: Perseus Americanus, is now available in digital download format from The iTunes Store.


September 21, 2006

I'm going to be selling my beloved but no-longer-used '82 Alembic Exploiter bass soon. I've been researching it a bit and really kind of obsessing over it, partly because Alembic buyers are specification obsessed (myself included) so I want to write a detailed for-sale ad, and partly because, well, there was a good reason I got it in the first place. The thing looks cool, plays well, and sounds amazing. But I just don't play it anymore, so it really should go to someone who will give it the attention it deserves.

This sort of reminiscing led me to dig around for some cool clips on YouTube, hopefully featuring rock bass god John Entwistle plying his trade. Bingo: Another Tricky Day. I love this song, and it's a great example of the sort of playing that makes "The Ox" such a damn good bass player. If you're hungry for more, check out this live video with isolated bass from Won't Get Fooled Again. The bass part starts at 0:20. His playing is pretty restrained until 1:40, then the fills and variations really start to happen. "Thunderfingers" indeed.

And yeah, the bass I'm selling pretty much sounds exactly like that.


All of the web sites that used to live on my home servers are now hosted at RimuHosting. So far I'm very happy with the service. Basically I just wanted a virtual private server running Ubuntu Linux, and that's what I got. It took a bunch of work to get everything disentangled from my tediously hand-patched Red Hat 7.3 server and much nicer and newer Ubuntu 6.06 server at home, but now it's all working.

The content all lives in a Subversion repository (at home), gets published to a staging web server (at home), and then rsynced up to the public server if I like it. Data gets dumped nightly and the DB dumps and systemwide config files backed up nightly, also via rsync. I could probably wipe the whole hard drive on the public server and be back up and running in about a half hour, given enough bandwidth to put all the files back that fast.