Following my first epiphanies, my initial apprenticeship of chords, and later realisation that I still didn’t know the instrument, I set out on a new quest to find a guitar learning method of some sort… There are hundreds if not thousands of guitar lessons on-line, but they are uneven and far from comprensive (and mostly…
Catégorie : Old sknoblog (2003–2011)
Guitar, part II
Following my first double-barreled eureka, I decided to try and figure out the chords I had played on Maubert, Dark Indigo etc, because by then, my usual amnesia had already set-in. So I painstakingly backtracked and figured them out. However, because I had cheated profusely, I was incapable of comfortably playing any of the songs…
Guitar, part I
As I’ve mentioned many times before on sknoblog, I’ve been more or less learning the guitar for the past few years. When I say more or less, I mean that I haven’t been doing it systematically and super-seriously, but I have actually been learning the instrument, and learning how to play old or new songs…
More Sons of Sarookh: Ummm
I told you a while back about the Sons of Sarookh, Matt Love’s collaborative music-making-over-the-Net endeavour to which I have participated before. A few weeks ago, Matt sent me « Ummm », another semi-random piece of music. Well, I whipped out my crappy classical guitar, ran it though a few effects, and proceeded to spontaneously lay down…
Europe: Plan B…
…as in Blair. First, the US sinks to new lows, and now, it seems the EU is unraveling at the seams, with the UK taking advantage of the increasing political weakness of the current French and German governments, of the rejection of the proposed constitutional treaty by the French and the Dutch, and general dissatisfaction…
Coming up for air
Haven’t had any time for sknoblog or any other artistic activity lately. I’ve been doing software localization and translation work to feed the kiddies. Most translation work in the Internet age is outsourced by software companies to China and India, and translation rates have fallen dramatically (generally to a few lousy cents per source-language word).…
It was true
Apple announced it was transitioning the Mac to the intel x86 architecture. After all these years of criticism… If you’re interested by this story, you’ll find plenty to read elsewhere. Personally, while I don’t give a rat’s ass what kind of processor is running inside the box (as long as it is reasonably efficient), I…
Hell freezing over, chicken with teeth etc.
In case you missed it (in which case you really should get around the Web more!), c|net is reporting (and the Wall Street Journal is confirming) that at tomorrow’s Apple World-Wide Developer’s Conference, Steve Jobs will announce that the Macintosh is moving to the Intel x86 platform and away from the G4/G5 line made by…
The persuaders
I highly recommend this PBS Frontline documentary (available on line) on and about the persuaders. From the site: Each year, legions of ad people, copywriters, market researchers, pollsters, consultants, and even linguists—most of whom work for one of six giant companies—spend billions of dollars and millions of man-hours trying to determine how to persuade consumers…
Crazy Frog
I don’t know what’s worse: That the French voted massively against the proposed European constitutional treaty (mostly to sanction local politicians who have superbly ignored previous local election results), or this. In case the link goes cold, here is the content: LONDON (AP) – A cell-phone ring tone appeared set to top the British singles…