Eye of Harmony launched
Posted by Danny Stewart in general on July 1st, 2009
Eye of Harmony, the successor to the DannyStewart.com Forums, has now launched. Check it out using the Forums tab above, or the Eye of Harmony link to your right. I hope you like the site!
Fool’s Gold (Howell Mix 2009)
Posted by Danny Stewart in Doctor Who, music on June 17th, 2009
After receiving (yet another) request for my CIN Howell theme from years ago, I decided to do a new mix combining the Howell theme with a Gold-inspired version. I used my Fool’s Gold mix as a starting point, and blended it with the Peter Howell’s extended version of the theme. The Howell theme is dominant, and the Gold elements fill out the background (as it should be). Enjoy.
UPDATE (6/18/09 5:45 am): After posting the mix online, I got comments from multiple people saying that the mix would be better with less Gold in it. I have to say, this response restores a small amount of my hope for the human race. So I am now proud to present my updated version of Fool’s Gold (Howell Mix 2009), now with significantly less Gold. Hooray! (The new version has replaced the old one. If you’ve already listened, just listen again using the player/links above.)
Switching to MobileMe
Posted by Danny Stewart in tech on June 14th, 2009
For the past several years, I’ve been relying on Google for all my online personal information needs. That includes Gmail for my email, as well as Google Calendar and Gmail contacts for my basic calendar/contact needs.
That changed a bit once Apple came out with their new MobileMe service to go along with the launch of iPhone 2.0. In order to have the best experience using my iPhone, I wanted to manage my calendar and contacts through MobileMe instead.
Call for links
Posted by Danny Stewart in site news on June 12th, 2009
Apparently, people would like me to put up a links section here on the site.
What kind of links do you want to see? Tech blogs? Apple news? Doctor Who pages? Cool music? All of the above? Let me know what you want to see by leaving me a comment or sending me an email, and I’ll give you a list of my favorite sites.
Thoughts on Safari 4 final
Posted by Danny Stewart in tech on June 8th, 2009
Nothing groundbreaking in the final release of Safari 4, but it really feels like a polished final release instead of a beta. Everything feels faster (yes, folks, Safari seems snappier), the UI has improved noticeably, and there are lots of little touches and additions that just make it feel nicer.
The one thing I noticed right away after installing Safari 4 is that Tabs on Top seems to have been pulled at the last minute. It’s just gone, and all traces of the feature have been removed from Apple’s site as though it never existed. Ah well. I had gotten used to it, but I won’t miss it too much. It’s certainly nice to have my title bar restored to normality.
My take on WWDC
Posted by Danny Stewart in tech on June 8th, 2009
Well, WWDC ‘09 has come and gone. Here is my take on the most significant news from Apple.
The news
Other sites will do a much better job summing up the news than I will, so instead of bothering to try, I will simply link you to all the news as told by Gizmodo.
(Updated to point to Gizmodo’s summary post.)
Read on for my take on everything…
WWDC anticipation
Posted by Danny Stewart in tech on June 8th, 2009
Well, despite my earlier tweet, it looks like I’m going to be up for the WWDC keynote after all. I just went downstairs and got some ramen (what seems to be my official food for Apple keynote events) and a small 4 oz. energy drink (literally the only thing to drink in the entire house), and now I’m ready to roll for the keynote.
I’m sad to see that Josef isn’t online, because he and I usually do the keynotes live together. Looks like I’ll be doing this one solo. No one else in the house, no one online… it’s going to be a lonely keynote this year.
So what’s in store? Snow Leopard? New iPhone? Whatever it is, I want it, I can tell you that already. I’ll post my thoughts on Twitter during the keynote, and summarize my opinions later today. Enjoy the keynote, everyone.
Radiophonic Workshop concert
Posted by Danny Stewart in Doctor Who, music on June 8th, 2009
For those of you who don’t know, there was a Radiophonic Workshop reunion concert of sorts a few weeks ago. I was fortunate enough to have an inside man at the concert who smuggled me out some video of their performances (it wasn’t exactly feasible to get there myself), but for those of you who missed the concert entirely, here are their live renditions of the Doctor Who theme. Unfortunately they’re the Mark Ayres versions (as should have been expected), but they’re still interesting, if for nothing else than to hear some things shifted around or missing entirely.
Videos after the jump.
Once more with feeling
Posted by Danny Stewart in site news on June 8th, 2009
Welcome to the latest incarnation of DannyStewart.com. I’ve come to the conclusion that as nice as it is to have a custom-designed, hand-coded web site, the focus of the site should be about me, and as I am not a static entity, my web site should not be one either. It needs to be updated frequently and grow as I grow, which is something that my previous hand-coded site wasn’t designed for. It was nice to get some practice with XHTML and CSS, but for the future, I think a dynamic solution like WordPress is the way to go. This way, I can write about what’s important to me and what’s going on in my life without having to pry open the HTML every time I want to write an update, or without having to maintain two independent sites (the static main page and the WordPress blog). It makes more sense in the long-term if the main site is simply based around WordPress, as then I can add to it as I see fit and keep everything under one roof.
So yes, welcome to the new site. I hope you like it and are able to find your way around okay. You can always shoot me a message using the Contact link above if you have any comments.
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