Author: davin

if you have a blog and you’re from victoria, or you live in victoria, email me at daving@shaw.ca with your name and website URL! 🙂
oh yeah .. for christmas, i gave myself a MySQL server and i already have a database set up. how leet is that? i have to start learning PHP again so i can interface it with this site. i started learning a long time ago when dev0n tried to teach me, but i forget all i learned. plus it was harder to learn, not having a server to connect to and all that. having my own MySQL server set up makes the purpose of PHP much more tangible. it will also be useful for one of my other projects that i’m involved with, www.ravevictoria.com. although development on that site is pretty slow, it should pick up in the spring. if there are any more raves, that is.
i also gave myself U2’s ‘elevation’ tour DVD. i wish they made a zooTV DVD, but all i can find is the VHS pieceofcrap. U2 is my favorite band and they sucked me right into their musical vortex with Achtung Baby. ahh, i am still kicking myself for not going to see the zooTV tour when it came to Vancouver about a decade ago. dough!
the picture above is of a type of brace that holds two pieces of glass together at most hockey rinks. the rink that this picture was shot at is the panorama leisure center out near the pat bay highway.
ps: if you know of a victoria blogger with a site, please pass the message on that i’m putting together a victoria blog webpage.
pls k thx bye!

i wish you all a most efficient boxing day. after all, thats what boxes are for, right? efficiency?
the basket pictured above is not very efficient.
that is all.

😀

yeah, it’s xmas eve!
woohoo!
pictured above is 2 TPYAKC representatives. the photo was taken last week at Chlorine .. which was the last week of Chlorine. not enough people were coming out to justify the club night continuing. on one hand i’m sad because it never really worked out. on the other hand, i’m happy to have had the opportunity to try for 3 months to make it happen. brent and braeden went out of their way to help me and yoseff put this night on and i’m thankful for that.
that being said…
…i wonder what santa is going to bring me.
hmmmmmmmm!
i really don’t know!
hopefully some CDrs. can never go wrong with a giant spindle of CDrs. but .. i really don’t know. i just visited a friend and she had a bunch of family over. probably about 30 or some of them. it was so festive .. pretty nice atmosphere. and i met a water lizard named ‘fossil.’ i think i want a water lizard. they’re cool looking, and pretty calm. it crawled on top of my head and hung out there for a while. it didn’t really move.
i’ll be doing the family thing on boxing day in nanaimo.
that should be lovely!

last night was one of Those nights. you know, the ones where you’re thinking about who is there, not who isn’t there. saturday, december 21st, being the longest day of the year, meant that it was time for a celebration. so, celebrate we did. we went to the [censored] winter solstice party at [censored].
i am amazed that

1. it actually started, and
2. it actually finished when it was supposed to.

last night, something happened that couldn’t really happen before the advent of blogs. i met aaron – only when i met him, i thought i already knew him because his face was familiar and i knew a bunch about him from what he has written on his website.
aaron works with adrian (www.djmischiff.com) at a place called Wondermill. reading aaron’s website makes me envious that i’m not working there. it sounds like a really exciting place to be working! being a designer/marketer/geek, it’s exactly what i’m looking for in terms of employment. i am itching to use some of my skills, experience and education for a business like The Mill which seems to have a great grasp on what corporate culture really means, and what it can really mean. anyways, i digress.
it was super neat to meet him after reading his site and poking through photos a bunch. it’s been almost exactly, if not exactly, a year since i met the first person who i didn’t know, yet i read their blog. his name is jim, someone who i now consider to be a good friend. so this blog stuff, i say, is A Good Thing. i now have my own. i didn’t even really consider doing a year ago. i am not much of a writer. things don’t really ever flow for me, at least not the way i hear Writers talk about. i mean, it’s sort of flowing for me now, but this doesn’t count, does it? i am talking about not having those moments of words flowing from my brain. uh, this is a paradox! eeeeeeeeeeek!
a bunch of time ago, i had written this post. i was just about done when i hit the “numlock” button on my keyboard, which doubles up as the “clear” button. the LED was on on the numlock.

• LED on on the numlock = annoying
• clearing your entire post that you’ve spent about 30 minutes on = slightly more than really stupid

haha, whoops. i think this post is better than the last one. i am not certain however, as i have no way of checking. i’m saving drafts of it every few paragraphs now. does anyone else accidently nuke their creative work every now and then? what do you do? do you just leave it, or do you try to create again? is it better, or is it worse?

yes. that’s right. i stole them!
vua ha ha ha ha!

who wants to see some pix from last night?!?!?

yay! it’s saturday!
it’s 4:30 pm and i just woke up about an hour ago. or less. krishen got here while i was sleeping and hasn’t slept for 55 hours.

go to sleep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we’re going out tonight. 🙂

jaguar is done and installed. aww yeah! pretty easy install really.
that picture is a picture of me and jim shooting photos at the same time. creepy eh?
the only thing i can find that isn’t functional now is the stats generator. but .. that’s not incredibly important to me. i didn’t really like it that much anyways.

krishen arrives back tonight!
we’ve been burning craig’s new CD and making a CD cover for it, or at least messing around with ideas for one. neaaaato!

it’s time i upgraded to OSX10.2 Jaguar. i have the CD’s, time to doooooo eeeeeet! apparently it wipes your PHP config out during the install. that’s okay, at least i’m aware. hehe.

i went by the olde radio station this morning to see angie sing. she did a duet first with a nice fellow named ken lavigne (sp?) and then a solo. this was in the name of fundraising for santa’s anonymous, a charity dedicated to feeding hungry families in the winter time, as well as giving toys to kids who otherwise wouldn’t be receiving presents this holiday season.

my friend steve works at cfax now and works the board regularly. here you can see him making a “dj face” while “working the mixer.” i think that’s the face dj’s make when they can’t really hear their own mix and hope it’s coming out alright. haha! steve controls the levels from the seacoast sound studio and puts them on the air. steve has been listening to cfax for a very long time and it’s really cool that he works there now. cfax was the station that steve, myself and matt were listening to during The Blizzard of 96 when we were stranded together at steve’s parent’s place.

steve receives the seacoast sound studio output from this digital mixing board. this board is in a soundproof room adjacent to the main studio room. it’s down the hall from steve. looks expensive, doesn’t it? it sure is. this mixes down the microphones, piano, etc from the main studio room.

the digital mixing board receives sound from this room here. that’s the back of angie’s head. i took a bunch of pictures this morning but i didn’t really get into moving around and getting good shots because i didn’t want to interfere with the performance. this room is very quiet if no one is singing or playing piano or talking or moving stuff around. if i made noise from shuffling around, everyone in radioland would hear it and it would show up in the recording, if they are keeping it.

steve says “hey, it’s easy.. look! no hands!”
this reminds me.. now that i have a digital camera, there’s a project that me and steve were talking about doing some time ago. it would be cool if we did it.

angie’s a pretty amazing singer, i have to say, after seeing her sing this morning. i had to refrain from clapping because we were on the air, and one person clapping would sounds lame. haha. i re-met a bunch of the cfax staff today. some said “i’ve met you before somewhere haven’t i..?” others, like mel cooper, recognized me right away.