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Shallow and Pedantic

A person/tech/code blog of a coder/techie/person. Like calculus in a kiddie pool, the author of this blog is known to be quite shallow and pedantic.

Some things make you feel good

Some things renew your faith in people, in the time you spend with them. Amazingly small things, considering their grand scope. Making things worse is known to be easy, and rebuilding is one of the hardest things we have to do in life. But sometimes, when things turn out to be completely different than they seem - new perspective is gained, old perspective is found again, and like something out of an old Disney cartoon, kitschy clouds of gloom make way for kitschy rays of sunshine.

Some music posted to myspace

Recording this morning was excellent! Awesome studio, not expensive at all, and a whole lot of fun. We’ve posted one song at our myspace page, and it seems that Lior has found an apt name for the CD (hint) ;) For those of you who don’t want to visit Myspace (can’t blame you), here’s the song we posted, as well as an extra track (my personal favorite), Falsely Accused. The deal Falsely Accused I really want to point out the incredible recording studio we used - it’s a place called MIXסולידי in Tel Hanania.

Some band stuff

This Saturday we’re going to record our material, and hopefully a cover we’ve been working on - Venom’s excellent “School Daze”. We took some photos yesterday, visible here: http://www.myspace.com/switchblade777/photos/albums/my-photos/8265381 We have a show at the Koltura Club on July 12th.2 Link modified to accomodate mists of time. ↩︎ Poster lost in the mists of time, show ended up being cancelled at the last moment. ↩︎

Myspace sucks

Life is good, for the most part. And as a technology enthusiast, there are many new and cool things to see online. For example, there’s the new Schools site, part of the Vaya project which helps Israeli schools use Linux; this site uses the up-and-coming Lahak CMS, built on the Django framework, and looks very promising to the eyes of the bidi-lingual webmaster. However, some things just plain suck. One of them is myspace; today, in an attempt to make it more legible, I found that My Band’s Page implements all of its styling changes by a “style” tag hidden within the “Members” text block.

On the matter of a really long vacation

By now I’ve lost count of how long ago my last class was. The strike has begun immediately after passover, and is certainly beginning to take its toll. For one thing, I have no homework deadlines - a rare situation indeed for the Technion student. Furthermore, contemplations are rising about whether or not this coming summer semester will be held, as the current semester will most likely leak into it. This is of special interest to me, as I’m behind on my degree, which is problematic because of my military scholarship.