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Lying users and synth manuals

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

In "Every User Lies" at the excellent Coding Horror blog, Jeff Atwood refers in passing to the concept of the "active user" - the person who immediately runs the software without looking at the manual at all.
In my trying out of various softsynths (most notably the WayOutWare TimewARP 2600 and the GForce Oddity and impOSCar), I’ve found myself doing that - firing up [...]

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Tags: essays · gear · software

Different Skies: after

October 21st, 2007 · No Comments

I’m currently at the airport, having just finished going through security and having to have my backpack scanned twice; too many confusing electronic bits, I guess.
Load-out took from after the concert and final jams (ten-ish) until about 3AM. We got to experience the weather we might have had: 60 mph winds and cold. Fortunately, [...]

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Tags: differentskies · essays · events · gear

On Editing and “The Historical Record”

September 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Today I got a request from a former listmember, who asked me to remove some posts of his from the archive, as he felt they were possibly going to reflect negatively on him should someone go searching for them.
I had to think about this for a minute. On one hand, there’s no point in making [...]

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Tags: essays