http://www.a440.org/steve/blog Random bits of Steve's mind, sparsely uploaded. Thu, 14 May 2009 15:15:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Come, come, now, Scotty. Young minds, fresh ideas." "Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon." Kirk, Scotty; Star Trek III: The Search for Spock(line order reversed deliberately) The new Star Trek movie by J.J. Abrams was always intended to be a so-called reboot of the franchise, an opportunity ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2009/05/my-thoughts-on-the-new-star-trek-movie-spoiler-free/ Last night, a friend of mine sent me an email wondering why I didn't have a comments feature on my blog and that he would have commented on a few things had there been one. After the initial burst of panic that something on the site wasn't working, I ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2009/04/commenting-on-comments/ I just read that NetApp (a company that makes file servers that I have used and administrated for over 10 years, and really like) is yanking their current Graphic User Interface (GUI, which is web-based, and therefore usable on a wide variety of platforms), and replacing it with a "more ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2009/03/and-this-is-why-i-dont-use-guis/ I just learned my hearing cuts out at about 14kHz, thanks to this page. As a musician, someone who has been to his share of concerts and a person over 25, I guess this is ok: It’s fairly common for people who are over 25 years of age to not ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2009/03/hearing-loss/ Looking through my blog's archive, I never did blog about my getting started with Facebook, but I'm blaming, er, crediting the 2008 O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). They had put up a note that Facebook was to be the social network of choice for that year. Previously, I ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2009/02/more-social-networking-for-me-thanks-to-oscon/ Even with the name change to reflect the nature of the blog (sporadic posting), there's definitely something wrong with the way I do things here.  Read any article on blogging, and they'll tell you about posting often to build an audience and a brand, and I'm just plain ignoring that.  ... http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/2009/02/the-problem-with-my-blogging-philosophy/ 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/