Author: Bengt-Erik Norum

it’s been a long and productive week. i’m still at work (7:46pm pacific) as we roll back the much touted m6 release of the windows live mail beta. it’s not as exciting as it might sound, but leaves me with the reminder of why i work where i do. i work with smart people who’re motivated to…

raveonettesheard ‘love in a trashcan’, the single off ‘pretty in black’ on sirius’ satellite radio’s “left of center” channel. i liked the late 50’s/early 60’s hollow bodied guitar reverby sound and imperfect two-part harmonies. as it became a staple on a couple of the “left of center” shows, it got stuck in my head and…

brighteyes i first heard brighteyes on soundcheck on live 105 (kits fm). soundcheck is a weekly programmed by the music director that tends to play newer stuff from the college circuit and newer music that sometimes breaks on the ‘alternative rock’ charts. i get the feeling that he plays two types of music: stuff he…

if i were to write a movie script? i’d select the soundtrack first and write the screenplay around it. i’d avoid strings, even tasteful strings in rock songs. they’re cheap and manipulative. back to reading poorly written kb articles on tcp tuneables in windows…

2005 was a good year for music discovery. i found bands that’d been around for awhile and i’d missed, albums from bands i knew, and new bands. i’m pretty sure that getting my personal life somewhat straightened out let me pay attention to music. music has always been a big part of my life, but…

heard a band that i was pretty sure the dj referred to as “the moan”, on a reasonably mainstream fm radio station, couple weeks ago. it immediately struck me as something i should be embarrassed to be so excited about. it sounded like a much more heavily produced version of “the donnas.” female vox singing…

pirates.monkeys.cold nights and warm blankets.fans.timepieces.lighting and lighting stores.chocolate.clever and witty jokes.clever and witty people.elegant scripts.coffee.sunday.old t-shirts.new music.mountains.big monitors.learning things.greasy gyros.beer.skate shoes.computers.

we sold the house about 6 months ago. i’ve been in this one bedroom apartment, in mountain view, since. i love my apartment. as a con, it’s small. while it’s not the smallest place i’ve lived, it’s a close second. it’s three rooms and a bathroom, plus a space that some might call “dining area”, but blue calls…

decided to clean up some blog spam.. i junked ~30 comment spams dating back to the 3.2 install, then clicked the “Junk” tab to see what moveable type had found: << < Newer Showing: 1 – 20 of 2426 Older > >> that’s a big number. color me impressed.

not sure why a non-active directory install of windows xp doesn’t default to syncing time off some microsoft service (windows update, for example), but it doesn’t. i recently rebuilt one of my home machines and just realized the clock was off. it was 2 minutes slow relative to my shortwave-mastered desk clock. during this install,…