Archive for July, 2008

Music Composition: Surprises

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

As many people know (wow, ego flaring!), I do animation, artwork, graphics design, programming ... and also, music. To be honest, the main reason online people don't know I do music is because I never bother to record myself playing. However, suffice to be said that I play the piano, ...

10 Reasons to use Linux

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Useful information stuff: Professionals who have done 156-215 and 1Y0-456 usually advise the same tips to all the 1z0-042 and 642-892 candidates. They also say, that had they done 70-272 or 70-528, they would not have needed these tips. Edit: you might be looking for: Should I Use Linux? What is Linux? Some people ...

Music Jam - This is my banana!

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Many people like to have session they call "jamming" where their friends meet in in a stereotypical basement, grab some drums, a guitar or two, some microphones, and probably an electronic keyboard. Using that as a guideline, some friends and I decided were bored one day, and met up in a ...

Kraft is for sissies!

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Some remember my last attempt at perfecting my cookery skills. Obviously, poaching eggs aren't my thing. (those Emacs folks quipping up with C-x-poach shut up). This event actually happened a couple months ago, but that's irrelevant. The fact is, a friend and I decided to team up and tackle the ...

GIMPup A Webdesign

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Seem as though The GIMP has finally gotten on my list of "Awesome Applications". That list is basically all the stuff on the computer which I know I cannot live without. They already include Vim, Blender, Apache, MySQL, PHP .... etc - but I'll save that for another post. All ...

Python steals XKCD Comics - snippet

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Useful information stuff: After 70-640, the students who are enrolled for 640-822 start preparing for their 70-236 as well as 640-863 so that they can be exempted from 642-436 and 1Y0-259 and can appear directly in 70-536, saving time and resources. When somebody asks a programmer: Dude, why do you program? There's nothing ...

WordPress 2.6

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

I have just upgraded (flawlessly) the installation to WP 2.6. Hurrah!

What’s up?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Useful information stuff: Successful candidates of 350-001 and VCP-310 who have prepared from testking suggest the same for all the exams, including 640-802 as well as 70-290 and 70-270. Today I learned two things: 1) Don't write blog posts in Internet Explorer. It will crash and you will lose your whole post. 2) People ...