Current Mood: Happy

Working on another Drum and Bass sounding piece called Birthday Cake.
http://www.dogpupkus.com/music/Dogpupkus-_Birthday_Cake.mp3

Some other thing I created some time ago for a short film.
http://www.dogpupkus.com/music/Dogpupkus-_Feelings.mp3

Both are made only with an Electribe MX by Korg.

So I have a new obsession, or addiction as some may put it. It seems I am addicted to this micro-blogging website called Plurk. Those of you who know what Twitter is (probably already use Plurk), you can look at Plurk as a Twitter on drugs. Plurk show’s all updates in a horizontal time-line format. For each person’s Plurk, you can have a mini discussion in a mini chatroom type box just for that one individual Plurk. Plurk is coded in ajax, and is coded to continually refresh, without refreshing the browser. This means, if someone responds to your, or one of your friends Plurks, you will be notified instantly. Making friends on Plurk is easy too. I started by commenting on Plurks made by the “Interesting Plurkers.” You can find them on the homepage, and by clicking a link to get to the “Interesting Plurkers” page. I must note, I was featured on the homepage as an “Interesting Plurker”, when I said I wanted to steal water from mother nature because I was thirsty. When you update, you can choose from a list of Verbs, or go “Freestyle” and use your own verb (but it wont be color coded). You Plurk, and stay active to achieve “Karma.” The more “Karma” you have, technically the more cooler you are on Plurk. There are perks to getting more “Karma”. You get more emotions to show off, you can change the little character guy displayed on your personal Plurk page, you can update your Plurk username and Plurk profile title… ect. The “Karma” is on a scale of 0-100. At 100, you achieve a rating of “Plurk Nirvana.” Right now, I have 30.68 Karma, which is “in a state of maintenance.”

If your a Twitter user, and your tired of downtime, or if your if you just want to try something new… even if you aren’t a Twitter user… check out Plurk! Its a great way to keep in touch with friends, or meet new people!

Click this button to visit my Plurk Profile. Sign up from there, and you will automatically become my Plurk buddy!

Current Mood: Happy

Andrew and I will be attending H.O.P.E. on July 18-20 in New York City at Hotel Pennsylvania. HOPE stands for Hackers on Planet Earth, a convention containing Segway Racing, Vintage Computers, Radio Broadcasting, Phone Phreaking, Hacker Spaces, Digital Music, RFID, Lego’s, lectures about Crafting Security, VoIP, Simulating the Universe over Supercomputers, Social Networking, Botnets and tons more. The cost is $75, but It’s going to be well worth it.

If your looking for something interesting to do, check out
http://www.thelasthope.org

Register up, join us and have some fun! Andrew and I will probably have to get a Hotel. We plan on staying the whole time! I may try and volunteer if they need some extra help!

Current Mood: Happy

I built myself a new shortwave radio antenna… Pros: Tons and Tons more active frequencies. Cons: Interference from my computer on higher frequencies (pressing buttons on the keyboard causes beeps on higher frequencies) Picked up a metal slinky from Walgreens for $3, trimmed it to size with a dremel, nailed each end to a side of the wall, and connected it to the shortwave radio with a coax cable.

I also had a good day today

Current Mood: Angry

Pretty pissed as of now, thanks to my Handspring Palm Treo. (The phone I have been using for the last few months)  I decided to do a firmware update (to the newest version) and all was going well up until one of the last parts of the update, where it actualy updates the Phones ROM.  Well, the update stoped and the Palm’s screen turned white.  A few seconds pass, soft reset, everything looks normal.  I was happy to see that everything was still there (Contacts, Programs, Addresses, Pictures, Calender, ect… ect…) I go to pickup the phone… Launch a Sync and BAM.  Hard Reset.  Everythings gone.  Message: ROM Update Failed.  I go through the backup that it did before the firmware update, and it looks like it backed up pretty much everything… but the shit I need.  I have no contacts, no dates in my calender, no memos…  Log: Error Updating Contacts.  Error Updating Datebook.  Error Updating Memos.  OH!  I have my music, oh and text messages!  Just incase I dont keep my music on my computer after I copy them to my SD Card!  Fuck it, thanks Palm, you da man >:(  Fuck you Palm.  If you ever decide to do a firmware update, dont.  If you have to, write out everything, because I cant count on Palm to do what its supposed to do.