http://www.a440.org/steve/blog Random bits of Steve's mind, sparsely uploaded. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:57:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I blogged earlier, Dan and I (collectively known as reverential) were off to the Nashville area for a whirlwind one day recording session. We got back late Tuesday night, and to say that the experience was amazing is really understating it: both Dan and I are really excited ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/10/reverential-in-nashville-followup-amazing/ As you may have noticed on our website, we've been pretty quiet lately. The summer ended up being pretty busy for us - except for music and gigging. But that's about to change. Back in February, we hired Gary Stripling, a Christian indie musician management consultant. ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/10/reverential-update-were-heading-to-nashville/ Well, I've had my iPhone 3G a little over 2 weeks now, so I figured it was time for an update. There's a few specific areas I'll talk about, and finish with my fairly-short list of gripes. Battery Life I'm going to go with the fact that my old devices ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/08/iphone-update/ Well, after what seemed like a long wait (see my post a month and a bit ago), I'm holding an iPhone 3G in my hot little hands. Appropriately enough, this post is being written on the device itself! Let me say right off, I love this thing, and a day after ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/07/finally-have-my-iphone/ Hopefully I'll get through this without it sounding like a diatribe, but I think it's somewhat telling that System Aministrator Appreciation Day was 2 days ago, and I found out about it by reading a blog post while catching up on some feeds.  Feeds that I got behind on while ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/07/belated-happy-system-administrators-day/ Thursday already...the pace is such that if you choose to be, you're really busy, moving from one talk to the next, to the expo hall, chatting with people, and before you know it, the evening's activites are on you.  That's my way of excusing the fact that I'm behind in ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/07/oscon-day-4/ Despite the usual flood of newcomers to the conference (a lot of people don't come to the tutorials), the morning breakfast and keynotes didn't feel any more crowded.  With the keynotes almost over, the break in the expo hall definitely shatters that illusion. The rest of the day was ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/07/midweek-at-oscon-start-of-the-conference-proper/ In an interesing change, there were opening keynotes Tuesday evening by some big speakers that are usually reserved for major conference timeslots.  It could be that O'Reilly knows from past experience how many people who don't attend the tutorials arrive the Tuesday night, but it would seem to me that ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/07/the-oscon-kick-off-keynotes-tuesday-evening/ With the two days of tutorials over, I just wanted to do a quick re-cap, with some thoughts on my experience this year, and some observations. In previous years, I've picked tutorials that seemed cool or had things I thought I wanted to learn, even if it was not completely something ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/07/oscon-08-tutorial-days-wrap-up/ The weather is cooler today (about 10° cooler than the norm, according to the local station), and the walk over from the hotel (about 5-10 minutes) was a great way to start the day.  I actually read the schedule, and went to the right place for breakfast today (almost missed ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2008/07/oscon-day-2-tutorials-part-the-second/