January 22, 2008

Why all the new notes, you ask?

If you’re reading this on Facebook, you’ve likely noticed a flurry of new notes posted. (If not, disregard.) It’s because I just added a new feature to my personal blog, HoogyWeb.com. It’s an “RSS combiner,” and it may be the ideal solution for someone such as myself who blogs on multiple sites, but wants to [...]

January 15, 2008

First Impressions on the MacBook Air

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?

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

Like that Bowie reference? Lame, I know.
Nonetheless, I felt it appropriate. Things here at Hoogyweb are a’changin, but ever so slightly. It used to be the Home page was a static welcome message that detailed some of my professional info, with a separate About Me page with more personal info. This I felt was redundant, [...]

January 13, 2008

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 [...]

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