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A bit fed up with Web 2.0

May 20th, 2006 by dempa 2 comments »

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. :)

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Posted in Computing

Comment spam

May 18th, 2006 by dempa No comments »

Wow! When I published my “Hay-fever” post yesterday, I immediately got 5 comment spam. I’m not the world’s most active blogger – and probably not that interesting to the world – so this surprised me a bit. Anyway, I got me an API key, activated Akismet and today Akismet have intercepted 39 comment spam for me. Nice!

I published yesterdays post from Ecto. This is the only difference from previous posts. I’m sure Ecto had nothing to do with this though. It was just bad luck. Fortunately for me, Akismet seems like a rock solid plugin for fighting comment spam.

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Posted in Site News

Hay-fever

May 17th, 2006 by dempa No comments »

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.

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Posted in Life in general

New song released

March 19th, 2006 by dempa No comments »

I finally managed to crank out a new tune. This one is a bit different from my other songs, I think. I categorized it as “Easy Listening”, because it’s… well… Easy listening. Ehm. Anyway, the title for this track came to me when I was thinking about how fast this last year has gone by. Next month, my son will be one year old. Unbelievable!

Anyway, I could have done a lot more polishing on this one, but I didn’t feel like it. My playground – my rules! :) Enjoy!

“A passing moment” (3:37) 4.6MB

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Posted in Music

Server problems

February 18th, 2006 by dempa 2 comments »

The server dempa.init5.net is running off is experiencing some severe hardware problems. The power supply was shot to pieces sometime last night and the motherboard has probably been affected somehow. I’ve managed to bring everything back up on a spare power supply and on “BIOS Defaults” (since entering the correct values seems to make it unable to boot).