Back to Freelancing.

It’s been a while since my last post because, well, I’ve been working. Full time employers tend to frown on blogging while on the clock.

So what happened, you ask? Here’s the ultra-simple, nuts-and-bolts answer:

The top two guys at the place I edited videos for had a parting of ways, and fifteen great people were subsequently laid off. I was fortunate enough to see it coming and had made preparations to find work. I even had some clients and prospective employers lined up before it all went down. As a result, I think I’m better off in this situation, and I have the privilege of working with some great new clients. Life is a lot less stressful, and I get to see my wife more often. (Oh, yeah, did I mention I got married?)

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How I Skyrocketed My Web Traffic Last Month

Holy bandwidth, Batman! Last month was a record for this humble, personal blog o’ mine. It all started around the 17th of February when some sluggish page loads prompted me to check the load on Hoogyweb’s servers. It turns out the sluggishness was my local connection, but I went on to check the stats.

My jaw dropped.

In less than two days, my blog had burned through five gigabytes of traffic on my blog, which is a lot considering the personal nature of the site.

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Duty Calls

Oh I do so love XKCD. While I don’t normally post links to comics, this one makes a great point… one I could stand to learn. So I decided to give it it’s own blog entry.

Duty Calls

Permalink: Duty Calls (xkcd.com)

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First Impressions on the MacBook Air

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OK, people, let me start off by sharing that amongst my circle of friends I am THE biggest Mac snob. So it will come to them as a great surprise when I have something negative to say about an Apple product. But let’s look at the MacBook Air objectively, shall we?

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Secondary Subdominants? …and other harmonic devices

I’ve been working on a lot of music lately. Sometimes, ideas and concepts come from unusual places. This time, it came from software.

I was trying out Sibelius, an excellent music notation program. I usually don’t go about writing music in a transcription app, but I was dragging notes around on the staff when ideas came to me, so I went with it. Continue reading

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On Internet Broadcasting…

Recently I saw a positive review of Hulu.com, the joint effort of media giants News Corp. and NBC Universal, which is currently in beta testing stages. With these two mega media giants come a wealth of network content, from NBC to Fox to Sci-Fi to FX and more. I decided to check it out, and while it took me over a month to be accepted into the beta program, it was worth the wait.

Hulu is a step in the right direction. It works by allowing members to view, watch and even share episodes online. Like the current broadcasting business model, they make their money solely on advertising. Ads run periodically in the timeline of every episode and cannot be paused or fast forwarded. The ads are brief and sparse, so the convenience tradeoff is small. Hulu is far from perfect, but it shows promise for the future of broadcasting. Continue reading

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Trav’s Diagonal Scale Method (w/examples)

It was recently asked of me by a former student how I play multi-octave scales on the guitar. The answer involves a seven-note scale system I developed about 10 years ago while a in college. With it, I can fly up and down the neck relatively easily. I’m sure someone else on earth – probably many individuals – have the same scale system since it’s based on basic common sense. So, I thought I’d blog it for the rest of the world to enjoy. Continue reading

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Die, Barney, DIE!!

New category for my blog! I added “Comics” to my blog, and to start it of, I dug up a comic from my old High School news paper.

Expect more comics soon. Check back often!

Die, Barney, DIE!!

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Boston Trip – 5/4/07

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HoogyWeb is up an running!!

Well, friends, I finally revamped my website, and this time I did it the right way. The new HoogyWeb is based on a full featured content management system. I can log in, add and organize pages, and post to my blog all inside a web browser without touching an HTML editor or tweaking any code.

Most importantly, HoogWeb now has video streaming capabilities, so I’m able to host a collection of my past work and showcase it for potential employers. As such, HoogyWeb will become more of a professional site. For my personal blog, you can still visit my MySpace profile.

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