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Here's something that should Cheer you up!

Skinny Puppy and breakdancing.

http://www.blastro.com/player/skinnypuppyprotest.html

Could the world be any better?
I submit that it cannot.

I'll admit that I wasn't their biggest fan ever - that might have been my friend misshell - she turned me on to them - with

"Too Dark Park". The reviewer's is right - it really is a 'horror show for the ears.'
I know that's what I liked about it - I was totally blown away by this kind of music - I hadn't heard anything that hard with synths before. It was truly mind expanding.
So after listening to the pro-test song I'm thinking I might have to buy the new album.

It kind of reminds me of the drum and bass and glitch I've been listening to lately.
What? need links?

Maybe next time. I'll learn how to link to the i-tunes store, and send you there.

Posted by vashremix at 06:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I'm still pissed about losing all of my digital pictures for the past 2 years. I hadn't realized how many I'd taken. Why the F didn't I backup?!
WHY?!
I'm furious about it. Or sad... sometimes I can't always tell the difference between the two. Sometimes it depends on how late in the day it is. I was sad earlier. Now I'm furious. Not quite sure why the change.
I had great night time blur shots - I had great Ivy shots - shots of us at the Thanksgiving day parade blowing up balloons - her eating at a diner on the upper west side - night time vegas pictures that I was quite fond of. Plus all the Moab pictures. just gone. Aaaaargh!
I went to change the css on this site today, and to change the picture in the banner on top - and then I remembered that I don't _have_ it anymore... so I put in some night time shot of the moon and a church through trees that I shot a couple of nights ago.
But I'm not happy with the color scheme of it. And it's affecting all of the rest of my colors --- so I have to try and re-make somehow a picture I took with my cell phone of a ride that doesn't exist anymore. How's THAT for daunting?!
Well, turns out I'm glad that I at least have _that_ picture sitting on my flckr account. Guess I'll download it and tweak it sometime soon. Yeah, this orangy-red thing is too autumn for me right now. Too earthy.

Posted by vashremix at 11:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

You know... sometimes it's just the little things that manage to cause so much confusion. Obviously this applies to relationships between people - as I know from first hand experience - but it also applies to technology! (Who would have thought that those two could be related!)
Picked up this Maxtor Drive the other day... I like it alot for backing up.

The fact that I just recently lost 2 years worth of digital pictures to a harddrive fluke has made me more likely to back up than ever before. I tell you what... THAT is a hard lesson to learn. I'm still sad about it.

I like it's simplicity, I've set it up so that when I hit the button on the drive, it just does the backup of the folders I've selected. Simple. I do it right before I go to sleep (if I've used the computer at all that day).
Well, I decided that Julia needed to have something as nice - so I installed the Maxtor's software onto her computer and set it up to use a different external firewire drive that we had. There's no button, so I made a different software button for her to click and launch the backup. It worked once, but then didn't seem to work again.
Rather than bore you with all of the trouble shooting I was trying to do to get it to work, I'll tell you the solution. Repair Permissions that's what needed to be done. Sometimes it's those tiny little permissions that get freaked that can cause so many weird problems.
So I have to remind myself - no matter what I'm trying to trouble shoot on OSX, I have to make sure the first thing I do is run the repair permissions command.

Posted by vashremix at 01:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I've just downloaded ecto again... I wish it would work with this... for some reason it keeps telling me that it can't download my files from the server. Confirm I put in the correct user name and password... did that - no joy.

It's too bad too - I'm kind of sick of using the web interface to Movable Type.

ecto was nicer when I tried it out before -- now I'm just ticking down it's 15 day time limit again getting nowhere.

I take it all back! I fired off an email to the developer, and before I had time to even look for a reply - I got a reply with the fix... and it was something mis-configured on my server! So BIG thank you to ecto, and it's developer. Maybe I'll actually use it enough to justify paying for it!

Posted by vashremix at 10:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)