Audiovisual Experiments

Recently I’ve been feeling a bit fed up with the whole Web 2.0 thing. I develop software, including web applications, for a living, so of course I appreciate the “new” possibilities that have emerged from XMLHttpRequest etc, but sometimes it just seems… a bit much. There’s also the Ruby on Rails movement. I’ve tried Ruby (the language) but there’s going to take a lot to drag me away from Perl, I’ll tell you that.

Recently I’ve been unsubscribing a lot of my Web 2.0 related feeds on Bloglines, and it actually feels good. I need a break. I’m also doing a lot of regular native client programming (C# in .NET) at work right now, which also feels good.

Maybe I’m just cranky ‘coz I can’t keep up with all the cool javascript libraries being released every other day. :)

It’s that time of year again. Hay-fever time. When I was younger, I only used prescription drugs, but as I grew older, I found that the non-prescription ones worked just as well. This year I’ve been trying out a new pill, but I can’t tell the difference really. I’m “lucky” to only get hay-fever from birch pollen. I have friends who are allergic to grass and stuff like that.

Anyway, no new music. :( Since I released “A passing moment”, I’ve barely started my sequencer. Why, you ask? Well, I’ve been busy. With what? Ehm, I don’t know! Somehow I don’t get time to sit down and really be productive anymore.

Totally unrelated: I’m trying out the blogging client Ecto (available for Mac OS X and Windows). This post was written using it. So far I’m not sure why I would need a desktop client for writing my once a month posts. :) Nice program though.