CitizenGroove

So I did it, I graduated.  It’s beenseveral months now, and life is great.  I’ve spent nearly all of those months with my “head down” on a new project called CitizenGroove.  CG is a network for musicians and a highly interactive media player for music listeners (infinite playlists anyone?).  We allow musicians to create highly networked artist groups with instrumentation information linked at the track level.  Also you can upload tons of music (if you own the rights).  We’re a real company, with trademarks and laywers and everything, so it’s very exciting.

  It’s in early testing phases, and there’s still lots more to come.  Lots of you out there have heard me talking about this, if you’re interested in being a tester, please contact me.  

The Dream Of The Stadium Peanut Salesman

A buy and a sell and a few more hours of hell.

My toss is a pitch, a heater, a curveball, or maybe a switch. 

The scent of cut grass is like a drug in my nose, better than any rose, any prose, any chemical dose. 

But oh, to be a player, to meet ball with bat and be its slayer.  Every day of my life, this is my silent prayer.    

Running the base, grand slamming the game in the face of those who would keep me in place.

I may work for peanuts but that’s only my bread, it’s something to do to keep hungry mouths fed, every day of my life, ever day till I’m dead. 

Maybe I’ll play ball in heaven’s arena, after God sends me that final subpoena.

Betwixt

Finite minds mind infinites.

Betwixt.  Betwixt two slenders the icy steel of a knife eye ran.

A scene rendered callipered.  So like a battery of cameras trained on the moon. 

Not this one. This one, not. 

Twisted.   Twisted across time and space and time and time again it’s the same. 

Why Live love lie die? Why? Oh. You. Are

Looking for what again?

Screaming.  Screaming bloody murder into the filthydirty day speeds sunlight daylight un-night.

A sham is what I call balance.  Where detergent is a duck’s nemesis.

A dollar sign called black gold baby.  From the ground she sprung, slickly singing. 

Finite minds mind infinites.

Facets

Life On Mars

Cherry Blossom Sunrise

Review of Google Chrome

Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks, Google has finally released a browser of their own, and it’s called Chrome.  As is explained in the launch-accompanying 30 page comic, Chrome is a little bit new and different.  While on the surface, the primary changes are tabbed browsing as a part of the core user experience, under the hood (cars have chrome right?) it’s quite a bit cooler than that.   

The Good: You see, the tabs ARE the core!  Each tab runs in its own process instead of in it’s own thread off of amain process.  In addition to this, they keep track of all the little bits (literally) of a webpage in memory, so when you leave that page, they can clear it COMPLETELY.  My personal favorite thing about chrome is that it doesn’t run JavaScript as a part of the rendering thread, so if it hangs, no biggie. Ok, ok, ok, so what does this mean for you?  It means that webpages, secifically webapps (things like google docs, meebo, and facebook that offer some interactivity)  will run at a bareable if not downright snappy pace.  I have noticed a distinct speedup on facebook in particular which is great for me because I build facebook apps so I’m in there all day.    

The Bad: So few things, I’ll put them in bullets points:  

• It only runs on Windows.  Grrrrr… Why is it that every time I get ready to jump off the diving board of Windows into the deep-end of Linux something always drags me back?   Google wants to hit the most people the fastest, so they developed for Windows first.  It makes sense people.  
• It has no add-ons.  This is probably a combination of Google wanting to maintain very tight security, and it being still quite an early product.  As a web developer though, I miss certain things like colorpicker, view source chart, and ruler.  
• It doesn’t support live bookmarks.  I don’t get this at all.  Considering all that Chrome ripped off (in a good way) from Mozilla, Opera, and Internet Explorer, why not this simple and incredibly useful bit of functionality?  I am an avid Del.Icio.Us user, and I keep all my browsers in sync by live bookmarking my rss stream of bookmarks, with Chrome I have to actually hit the web page.  Lame, but not terrible.  

The Ugly: If you are an average computer user, (a non-developing windows user who loves webapps) jump in and get your feet wet!  If not, you might wanna wait for the second release.