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i am selling 1 ticket for the sold-out-in-five-minutes Thursday, April 28th U2 concert.
$54. though i am sure it is worth more than that by now.. must be able to pick it up from north vancouver.

here’s another new website i made over the last few months, just launched this week:

woot. clicky for site. he’ll also be in from australia at Hush (in Victoria) on Saturday, April 30th. yeah!
i am happy ’cause

1. charles is coming over for the James Holden and Chloe shows next week
2. i finally get to meet chloe
3. kasey taylor from the awesome vapour records is here on friday
4. me and charles are gonna make choons!
5. saturday night is gonna be huge in victoria at hush — spinning with Braeden is consistently one of my favorite DJ experiences
6. thursday night is sara’s fashion show and i am djing the after party at tribeca which i hear is a cool place
7. i migrated 6 blogs from mt 2.64 on a BerkeleyDB to mt 2.661 on a more robust, faster MySQL db. and it is working. this will decrease spam initially (since there is a new address for the comments cgi .. not security by any means, just not found by the spambots yet.)
8. i made the template for pacific front recording business cards tonght. i thought it sucked and was lame but i just had another look and it is classaY! woot.
9. went for coffee with jay and talked photography for a good hour and a half! that was fun. it is nice to meet someone with the same kind of enthusiasm for photography as many of my friends in the photogroffee kroo.

okay i think that’s enough for now!
bye bye bye

here are some photos from my last visit to Hush in Victoria. note the off-the-hook-status of the club.
lifted from the Hush website:

am i excited? yes. expectations: par-ty.

here’s a new website:

which you can get to through the newly renovated project page (in the navigation at the top of this page!) or click here on projects. these are the big ones i am involved with right now outside of work hours. and a few other collaborative efforts but they don’t have websites yet.

i think this is the first time in a very long time that i am posting pictures the same day i have taken them. i don’t know why that may have been but i think it’s more a reflection of my lifestyle than anything. these are the three shots i took today.
the fire hydrant one is all about the complimentary colors, the perspective, division into (approximately) thirds, depth of field, and the fact it is a weird-ass fire hydrant. cool i say. the fire hydrant is about 50 feet from my building. i took the shot on the way home from work.
the hole-in-the-tree is from Victoria Park (in front of my place too, taken before going to work this morning) and it is all about the little plants growing inside what looks like would make for an excellent owl-home. green (life) in the greyness (abandonned by the owl). hoot hoot. woot. zope.
the last one, well this arrived in the mail today courtesy of DJ Emit. that is tim for any of you following along at home. wow, way to make my day! thanks tim you rooooool. how cool is that shirt?!!??!?!?!?!?!?! note the blue-orange/brown combo.

here is a massive picture post from my last weekend in victoria (the 4 day weekend). shots are included from hush, lisa’s b-day party at the mint, a barn party named animal farm, a miniphotogroffee, and more..

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rewire is so cool! this is how you connect Reason to Ableton’s Live. Pretty cool huh!? me and thor are going to use said configuration to insert a new bassline in our choon.

me and thor made this thing out of icecubes at quentin’s the other night
i have spent half the weekend figuring out how to install scode for moveable type.
okay here is the list of dependencies (top down):

• moveable type (blog software)
• scode (image-comment verification system)
• GD (Gif or Graphic Designer) and GD.pm (Perl Module)
• zlib (compression library), libpng (ping image generation library), libjpeg (you guess what this is), freetype2 (typing on graphics generation tool)
• fink, apt-get, cpan (application-getters and installers)

inherently if there is something wrong with the code in one of the bottom items, it’s going to cascade upwards into the other items.
some notes:

1. fink is sorta broken. by sorta i mean sometimes it searches and installs out-of-date software that is incompatible with everything you’re trying to do.
2. this is not easy to attempt at 3 a.m.
3. some of this software that fink, cpan and apt-get retrieve requires patching, and the patches have to be current otherwise they are not going to work. they did not work. help pages like this are nice to find, however it is out of date, so the instructions no longer work.
4. this is not easy to attempt at 5 a.m.
5. GD says it installed. GD.pm says it did too, but with some cryptic errors that I have not seen documented anywhere. scode sayz ‘no, it is not installed and i hate you!’ ahem.
6. this is not easy to attempt at 8 a.m.

i’d really like to get GD and GD.pm working properly on my system because it would be fun to play with graphics generation. especially cool considering i can use my existing truetype font library (it’s huge, trust me) to generate graphics with php commands. that will be leet.
so i slept for a while, spent from 2 until about 30 minutes ago trying to get it to work. i think it is fair to say i got nowhere with it and i have uninstalled the scode (which has prevented you from leaving comments).
blah.
so the blog is obviously back. what happened was that a DNS server moved to another IP and I guess they aren’t supposed to do that, since they’re the ones telling everybody where everything is. hooray for the new dns1.davin.ws. all rejoice.
pictures will appear later when i am not so sick of computers! these things are supposed to serve us, not the other way around ..

i am playing tennis tonight! that i am excited about. i gotta go do some stuff now. bbak.
yeehaw!
hey it is my dad’s 60th birthday tomorrow. holy! i’ve been telling people he’s 60 for several years — now people will see that i’m actually right!
i saw this well off woman on the bus the other day. actually i see her all the time. she appears well off. unless you see her run each day to the bus stop to light up a smoke. i wonder who she is hiding that from. maybe no one. anyhow, she appeared to be a bit nutty while standing at the front of the bus yesterday, flirting with the bus driver. and then i wondered if insanity is a luxury.
well, after a week of thinking about it, i am not so sure about insanity being a luxury now. i think maybe i was on to something there. but mostly i think insanity and creativity are not that different. i think the difference is simply whether or not you use the people around you as a canvas for your creation. oh but some use people as a canvas and aren’t insane — so it’s still just a matter of perspective. hmmm. what are your creative outlets?
blog update: the dns servers (dns1.lefty.ca through to dns3.lefty.ca) have stopped functioning, so i am not sure when i get my domain name back on the site. oh lefty! have thou forsaken me..
i am addicted to Secret Agent Radio. “The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and P.I.’s too!” very much so. they have, as described, mysterious and quirky music. and very stylish. my life is now a David Lynch movie! bring on the weird [bleep].
i have a ton of pix from the weekend that i will post really soon. that weekend was good for unforseen reasons which i now see and am experiencing. interesting. hmm! that pic at the top, you can click on it for biggie version. yes.

hi. ya. it is friday night.
party up in duncan, there is also a party on saturday night. maybe i will save myself for that nite. i dunno what saving means. i want to play tennis tomorrow, but weather may prevent that from happening.
too. much. coffee. today. what!
i watched huckabees last night with The Amalia and jen. what a weird movie. good though, i recommend it. a bit different. i like that.
so i met with james roy and bruce beil today, and we are plotting for this years Victoria Electronic Music Festival. although i have no specific details to tell you at the moment, i can tell you that i am excited because we are looking to do some really cool stuff. and i am excited about that. woot!
our impromptu photogroffee proved to be a bit too improptu but i did get some cool shots regardless. in any case, it was good to catch up with james, adrian, and gurton.
going to go have a bath and then i am going for a drive with richard. after that i may drop by deep to see yoseff / maria / josh because i have not seen them in some time and i miss them. i may also go to duncan to see braeden spin, but that depends on who i get to go with me. i am feeling a bit tired right now (coffee burnout) so it is looking dubious. maybe i’ll go and hang out outside the entrance.
cool.
not.