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Sunday, March 02, 2003
I spent most of the weekend setting up and playing with my music studio. A while back I bought a whole bunch of gear and its been sort of thrown together enough to play a little bit, but not completely set up. Now I've got it all connected and wired and wonderful. At the heart I have a G4 running Digital Performer. I bought a used OB-12 synth but I'm not sure I like it yet. Having some trouble learning how to program it.. Benny moved to NYC a couple weeks ago so he brought me back my Juno 106 and TR-707. That was the main inspiration for getting everything up on line again. I also just got a copy of MAX! Next on the list for software is Ableton Live and perhaps some virtual synth like Reason or Reaktor. Back when I was in school I predicted this would happen - software synthesis then took hours to hear a few seconds of sound - and now its all possible in real time on a laptop.
I've been dying to get back into this stuff for years. I don't know why I let it get so far away from me. Must have been all those startups. My old theory was that I would get a decent day job and that could help me make a living while I worked on my art. And then before long the art slipped away and got lost. Time to get it back.
7:46:40 PM
XML, SOAP and Binary Data: Well worth reading through. I brought up exactly the issues discussed regarding WS-Attachments when I was last out at Microsoft. We were talking about WS-Routing and WS-Security and I kind of went.. wait! How do we deal with DIME now? What happens when I want to encrypt and sign attachments? And a WS-Routing aware endpoint implicitly must handle DIME. Yuck.
