Fail!
15 May 2008
I looked very suspicious, trying not to laugh too hard when I visited this site.
Here’s a few of the most hilarious ones I found. Read the rest of this entry »
sentient beings
08 May 2008
Ooh, I’m still on the old WP on this blog. I’ll be moving it soon.
In the meantime, I relaunched the http://www.sentientbeings.com website. It’s got a modern kinda retro-ish look and I’ll be focussing on development issues over there and possibly some project management issues.
It’s been a while
05 May 2008
Dear dairy diary,
it’s been a while, indeed.
I have been busy being a daddy to my little girl. But I’ve also been busy setting up the band as well. Transentience is almost complete again and we even have a new website! It’s bilingual for those whose Dutch is only slightly better than their English.
And it’s got self-coded Flash applications! After spending a lot of time finding my way around Flash (which actually took remarkbaly little time, to be honest), I coded a SlideShow application and an MP3 player. You can find the slideshow in the “images” section of the Transentience website and the MP3 player on the front page of the website.
I’m looking into releasing these applications into the freeware domain but I’ll have to do some cleaning up - which isn’t bad for the application itself anyway. I’m actually rather pleased with the whole thing. It had been years since I coded in Flash and I was amazed at the humongous progress Flash made since 1999 (yes, it had been that long).
Anyway, I’m seriously looking into Flash now and will be checking out Flex later. Once that is done, who knows what the future may bring …
Prologue
27 February 2008
It is our sad duty to inform you that Transentience will be taking a break of undefined length.
We all need to take a step back and rediscover ourselves.
After a tumultuous period, we decided to leave on a perilous journey. We can’t say when we’ll be back. We can’t say how many of us will make it back, eventually. We only know that this new journey will change us in ways we can’t imagine, just like the past journey has changed us in ways we could not have imagined.
We aren’t taking any cell phones, portable computers or stamps. No internet, no carrier waves, no dial tones. To the world of the living, we will be dead. To the world of the dead, we will be lost. We can’t hear you. We can’t see you.
This is not the end. This is the prologue.
A very big thanks to all our fans who have supported us throughout the years. All of those who believed in us. All of you who shared the experience that was Transentience. We all hope to see you again real soon, although none of us can say when that will be.
Welcome back!
21 February 2008
I’m switching jobs at the end of this month. I’ll be making progress on all fronts!
- Very close to home;
- 4 days a week;
- Pay raise;
- No lease car.
Wait! I marked “no lease car” as progress? Yes, I did. Because my rather okay Mitsubishi Outlander Sport 2.0 Invite Plus is getting the boot. And it’s being replaced by … a 1992 Volvo 740.
The Volvo 740 will be picked up on Saturday! Woohoo! Pictures will follow, of course.
In the meantime, I’m on the lookout for a Volvo 940 2.0 Turbo Intercooler. Once I find that one, the 740 will be free to go, again.
To the Counsellor!
06 February 2008
It sounds a lot more spiffy than it is, actually. I took my daughter and my wife to the child counselling office or consultatiebureau.
I’m getting real good at fixing the Maxi Cosi in the car. It took me about 45 minutes the first time I did it. I can now do it in 40. I’m kidding, of course ;) I can do it in 5 minutes now.
It’s still a real adventure taking Louise out. She has to get dressed and everything, taken to the car and seated. And we have to get all her gear together. Before Louise, going out was getting a coat on and hopping into the car. Now, going out is still an organised process but it has bit more chaos thrown in. The parts in red are the extra chaos. The parts in black are regular chaos.
- change diapers
- feed before leaving
- change diapers again
- get all her gear together
- change clothes because she threw up a little milk
- get more gear together
- stuff it all in a bag
- get Louise in a jacket
- head out the door
- head back in to get the Bag ‘O Gear (Magical feeding, +1 CHR, -1 Movement)
- head back out
- get Louise in the carseat
- fasten the seatbelt
- undo the seatbelt
- replace the padding on the seatbelt
- fasten the seatbelt
- Go!
- head back in the door to get the baby carriage
- put bay carriage in car
- Go Go Go! We’re only 30 minutes late! +1300 XP
Anyway, we got out the door and we were a little early but not a lot. What little time ahead we had, we lost looking for the offices.
Once inside, we had to get Louise all nekkid except for her diaper and wrap her in a blanket. She was really cool about it and didn’t even cry. She didn’t cry when she was weighed and measured. She’s really sweet like that.
We got our consult and we asked a lot of (reassuring) questions. It’s really nice and comfortable to have someone you can ask all those difficult questions to. How much sleep, when to sleep, what if she keeps crying, how about bottled milk and more of those.
In the end, we got Louise dressed again and went home. It was really nice to be out with the three of us - our little family. We’re doing fine!
Babel
01 February 2008
This morning, I had an appointment. I should be there around 11:00 AM. It’s now 9:40. I should have left, oh, about 15 minutes ago. If this were a movie, you’d see a white flash across the screen and see the clock showing 09:20.
It’s 09:20. I say my goodbyes to my dear wife and step out the front door. It’s nippy and when I take off my coat, I can see my nipples standing out through my shirt. I look good. I get in the car and boot my satnav. I input the town: Hardenberg. I input the street: Deventerweg. Actually, I don’t input all of that. I get as far as “Dev” and then the screen shows no streets beginning with Dev. I try again. And again. And once more. I scroll through the list of names by hand and there is still no sign of a street named “Deventerweg” in Hardenberg.
So I whip out my mobile and start scanning my e-mails. I find the e-mail that contains the address and start reading it. It does say “Deventerweg”. I’m confused and close, then re-open that mail. At the bottom it says “Harderwijk”. Which is an entirely different place. Harderwijk is a 22 minute drive. And Hardenberg is about a 90 minute drive.
I would like to thank the people in Hardenberg for not having a Deventerweg. Thank you, very very much. You just made my day.
Transentience op zoek naar toetsenist(e)
01 February 2008
Transentience is een goedlopende female-fronted metalband en is op zoek naar een nieuwe toetsenist(e).
Transentience heeft in het voorprogramma gestaan van o.a. After Forever,Seraphim & Delain.
De nieuwe CD is te beluisteren op de Transentience myspace & hyves en is door o.a. Joost van den Broek (After Forever) geproduceerd.
Samples zijn te beluisteren op Myspace en op Hyves.
Wij zoeken iemand die de nodige ervaring heeft in de muziek en die zijn/haar instrument goed beheerst. Je bent enthousiast, sociaal en gemotiveerd. Je vindt het leuk vind om regelmatig op te treden en mee te werken aan het componeren en arrangeren van nieuwe nummers.
Verder zoeken we iemand met persoonlijkheid. Je past sociaal goed binnen de band past en durft je mening te geven. Tenslotte misschien wel het belangrijkste: je handelt waar mogelijk in het belang van de band/muziek in zijn totaliteit.
Wil jij graag in een gezellige band zitten die goed loopt, regelmatig optreedt en productief is? Nieuwsgierig geworden?
Bij interesse, kan je je mail sturen naar Kristof
Het zou handig zijn als je in je mail iets over jezelf vertelt: je naam, woonplaats, leeftijd, interesses etc.
- Wat zijn je muzikale interesses / inspiratiebronnen?
- Vertel iets over je bandervaring.
- Wat verwacht je van deze band?
- Stuur evt. een website-link/mp3 mee waarop jij hoorbaar bent.
Tot snel!
Mc Pudding
21 January 2008
I’m very pleased with my MacBook Pro. So pleased that I decided to break down a song into midi and record it in Garage Band, just to have the midi files.
BIG MISTAKE. Garageband does not export midi. Funny enough, Logic (both Express and Pro) will read midifiles from Garageband projects. So, the midi is in there somewhere. And no-one has written a tool to extract the midifiles. In that lies the drawback of the Mac: unlike in the Apple // days where there was a program for almost anything you could think of, ranging from serialport-programmable lasers to extracting text from Appleworks, somehow the Mac has become more of a “I’m content with what I have” community. Otherwise, someone would’ve come up with a way to extract the midi from Garageband files.
Other than that, I’m happy with the MacBook Pro. I really am.
Technophilia
18 January 2008
You won’t believe this, but my daughter has her own blog!
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