17 Jul 2005
A couple of weeks ago, at a party in Maastricht, I heard a new version of Rapper’s Delight (Sugarhill Gang), a 15-minute funky jazz version with a kick-ass bass. I went to the DJ booth and turned my head at 45RPM so I could read the name of the artist: “Bentzon“. Back home, some elementary Googling later:
03 Jul 2005
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(post in dutch)
20 Jun 2005
![](http://www.pixagogo.com/S5vpfnjbBPdPn3!77h!9nvCwHKUngfL0q9aNicxTeloR0!5oH1smeMgCoqgKg7lxUlXOcTqNMnKOpmOZueIuVU4QBLIb-!7-bBif8QfH71QXOBpZy1VQ-Yp79kmJTpY5Iw37AujUh8iiUemGWcfai!ow__/ipod_photo.jpg)
There is something weird: after the audio-only iPods came the iPods with images, but there are no iPods for videos (yet). However, we already have video podcasts, but there are to my knowledge hardly any picture podcasts? Why did we skip that medium? The hardware is there, the content is there.
17 Jun 2005
Barry (played by Jack Black): Rob, top five musical crimes perpetuated by Stevie Wonder in the ’80s and ’90s. Go. Sub-question: is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter-day sins, is it better to burn out or fade away?
(from imdb.com)
16 Jun 2005
![](http://www.pixagogo.com/S5CLnY1NL-yFyeJ21od9Ox-koLBCL6Nof-t1THjyUMdjMcr0cSkv9lF5OXdKQxbf2wDVGvxFHyz6f5BhiNppg14qEeFkPwAO8T/meteor.jpg)
15 Jun 2005
The following script I made in order to convert the forward DNS records in a /var/named/db.[domain] file into the correct format for a reverse DNS db.[subnet prefix] file.
``
#!/bin/sh
(…)
DNSROOT=/var/named
PREFIX=$1
DOMAIN=$2
shift 2
DNSPRE=$DNSROOT/db.$PREFIX
DNSDOM=$DNSROOT/db.$DOMAIN
echo “; save this in $DNSPRE”
(
if [ -f $DNSDOM ] ; then
cat $DNSDOM
| grep $PREFIX
| grep -w “A”
| sed “s/$PREFIX.*//g”
| gawk “BEGIN {OFS = “t” ;} {print $4,”IN”,”PTR”,$1 “.$DOMAIN.”,”;; FROM basename $DNSDOM
” }”
fi</p>
if [ -f $DNSPRE ] ; then
cat $DNSPRE
| grep -w "PTR"
| gawk "BEGIN {OFS = "t" ;} {print $1,$2,$3,$4,";; FROM `basename $DNSPRE` "; }"
fi )
| sort -n
| uniq --check-chars=3
``
07 Jun 2005
I have just created a tool to help solve the Sudoku puzzles: the forret.com Sudoku Helper. I’ve added it to my Forret tools directory.
29 May 2005
![](http://www.pixagogo.com/S5vpfnjbBPdPlhw!L7DZ9XBoxLb8sI2P-hsUY5qlXvUVVmsLdrgGBTjeuSbT7K17K3BoeJpj88KHSwwDa!14AeBIud8BKzUMnpG3CSbzk7uA74TLt3O26pFB1XiqBfmdCyLIIk!PUGLrjHtVY-OxP37w__/propaganda2.jpg)
While checking for the latests versions of Mixmeister software, the excellent audio tool for crafting MP3 mixes, (they’re at release 6.0 now), I also noticed they just released Propaganda, a Windows software for creating p0dcasts. They’ve built it on the Mixmeister engine: accurate automatic detection of BPM (tempo) and downtime (1st beat of a measure), flawless time-stretching (speeding a song up or down without changing the pitch) and manipulation through a timeline based editor.
27 May 2005
Excellent posts in the Music Thing Blog about the way some of the famous sounds of everyday life were created:
23 May 2005
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If this is true, it could change the landscape for podcasting significantly: Apple is jumping on the podcast wagon: