Evil Spud Boy

This is a video that I ran across on You Tube that features the late Brad Delp, jamming with Steve Lukather and Eddie Van Halen performing ‘Wild Thing’. According to the description, it took place at the opening of the Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas.

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This is a useful comparison of how a typical pro-audio DAW performs under different versions of Windows. The tests were performed using Cubase 4 running on XP Pro SP2, Vista Ultimate 32 and Vista Ultimate 64. The results are very interesting.

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What do you get when you cross Linux with a guitar? You get a guitar with a built in recording studio. Or at least that is what Canadian luthier Mark Kett and linuxcaffe proprietor David Patrick hope to achieve with their Linux Guitar Project.

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Taylor, Fender, Martin and Gibson have joined forces in an effort to preserve threatened Alaskan forests.

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This is interesting. Someone made a guitar out of a Sega Genesis.

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If you are an adult just beginning to learn guitar, you may have difficulty finding time to practice. Putting in enough time is a big challenge for anyone taking up guitar at any age, but as you get older I think it becomes even more of a challenge. I didn’t start learning guitar until I was 39 and I had to find ways to fit learning to play in with all of the other things I have going on in my life. I think that most people who take up guitar as an adult find that there are many things that demand their attention; thinks like a career, a marriage, home ownership and children all make demands on your time and make it hard to find time to for practicing.

If you don’t practice regularly and consistently, it is very difficult to make any forward progress. When you aren’t making progress it is very easy to become frustrated which may cause you to spend even less time or give up playing guitar altogether. In order to prevent that from happening to you, here are some tips and advice to help you make the most of your practice time.

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An interesting piece of news if you own any Behringer equipment:

Radio World Posted an article saying that the FCC is proposing a $1,000,000 fine for marketing products in the United States without certification that they meet FCC standards for radio interference. There is a list of the specific models that were imported in the FCC’s notice.

I only own one Behringer product, a BCF-2000 control surface, which is one of the products named. I was going to write a review of it for the site, but maybe I’ll hold off on that and see how this turns out. I am wondering if this will have any effect on future availability or support of these products in the United States.

I’ve added a new page to the site explaining what RSS is and how you can subscribe to this site’s content using RSS.

I added this page because even though my traffic is starting to increase, people aren’t subscribing to my feed. Possibly because people don’t know this site has a feed or they don’t know what RSS is. Another reason might be because there isn’t a lot of content here yet. Don’t worry, I plan to post more interesting content soon.

If you do read something here that you like, or don’t like, please post a comment. I’m very interested in hearing from the people who are visiting.

In a recent post, Bruce Schneier writes about the problem of authenticating credentials when it’s not common knowledge how to distinguish fake credentials from real ones. He references a story about a man being pulled over by an officer who turns out to be a fake. And as Bruce states, “There’s no obvious way to solve this.”

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I’ve upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.0. Everything looks fine to me, but if you notice any strange behavior, let me know.