Armin came on over on Saturday and laid 2 tracks down (that’s him panned left). My little project started and was abandoned 1 year ago in Germany, so this was started over to distance myself from the bad vibes. Getting to see the New York City At the Gates reunion got me inspired to pick this back up and get it finished once and for all.

Production is shit, mainly due to the fact that I no longer have my fancy mic stand, so this stuff wasn’t captured as well as it should’ve. and the mix… blah blah, it is what it is. 3 nights of mine were dedicated to this, and that’s enough.

Anders Björler, nogz, & Daniel Ekeroth (Swedish Death metal)

I havent blogged in quite awhile, but reading about The Mojave Experiment pissed me off just enough to log in here and post about it.

Quite frankly this is total BS: a deliberate deception from our pals at Redmond. I am surprised they had the balls to use deception as a PR campaign. Of course, they just tested the user interface and a few new features (parental controls, etc), because CONVENIENTLY, Mojave didn’t cover installation drivers, drivers, drivers, the migration hell, unsupported devices, etc. The controlled environment was setup by Microsoft itself and basically navigated users through the Vista “experience”.

Don’t you find it interesting that 80% of the people being interviewed seem like inexperienced computer users? Sure they had balls to do this “PR campaign”, but not balls enough to try this on teenagers or IT professionals.

This is extremely well written:
http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/07/mojave-experiment-bad-science-bad.html

i had installed Vista on my DELL laptop to test out some custom software for work. Dell’s have a recovery utility that restore your PC to clean factory default settings with no need for a CD installation (a huge plus for me).

Vista beautifully fucked up the master boot record making the recovery impossible. luckily i found the great DSRfix utility online, but this was only the beginning. i was forced to return to the floppy disk days as the countless (like 5 or so) bootup CDs to DOS failed to work. sure you can boot off of countless other hardware these days, but bootdisk exe creators demand an A drive. but then again, i could’ve used an emulator.

gladly, this didnt take forever. thanks to DSRfix, i can revert back — in no time.

I started using audioscrobbler in the fall of 2004 when I was working all sorts of crazy hours. Since then, they’ve expanded the service and taken the model many many steps further - and at a mind boggling pace. As usual, metalheads adopted the web service at amazing rates and last.fm did a great job about not discriminating taste as it catered to music lovers across all genres. Today I signed up for last.fm support for a second time and I was pleasantly surprised to be playing my very own Servantofbones Radio Station, which accurately included kickass (fave) artists like Sentenced, Katatonia, Daylight Dies, Paradise Lost… you name it.

This is what a web music service should be: scalable [in all senses of the word], constantly introducing new features that the end user gets excited about, helping you get exposed to all things musical, and searching/sorting through a growing repository of information.

I encourage every audiophile / mp3 player owner to sign up and start building their profile to take advantage of this killer service [it keeps getting better and better]. It certainly puts all others to shame.

Jesse over at www.daylightdies.com has posted a killer video our latest creation. We had a blast — pre and post beer production.