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If you’re disheartened by the prospects of a new OS from Microsoft, but you’re under the impression that that damn Apple company updates their products too often, here’s a couple of sites that keep track of Apple’s product cycles and offer recommendations that may prevent you from screaming in agony when your “brand new” laptop gets updated next Tuesday:
I got a last minute call from my friend Dan on Friday, he’d scored two tickets to Street Scene in San Diego, I couldn’t refuse. After a nice long drive, traffic wasn’t too bad, we got in around 9 and the place was packed. I heard that it used to be in the Gas Lamp District, hence the name, “Street Scene,” but ths year it was in the Qualcom parking lot.
There was a variety of bands and acts set up for the two day event, yet we showed up at 9, which was fine in my book, I only wanted to see two performances that night, Bad Religion and Wu-Tang Clan. Of course, they were scheduled to perform at the same time, but Bad Religion was on a little earlier so we thought we could get a little bit of both.
Before I describe the night, let me let anyone know that though I own almost all the albums of each group, I’d never seen them live. This is the opposite of Dave Matthews Band, I didn’t own any of their albums and my first experience was a concert, I was sold after that and saw probably two shows a year for about five years. I was pretty stoked to see both groups in the same night.
We headed over to Bad Religion first, they started earlier than Wu-Tang and the Wu was a bit late anyway, so we wanted to catch a bunch of songs before we headed over to the other stage. I was blown away, I’d seen some old local bands such as Pennywise and Farside around here back in the day, but Bad Religion went off, they’re still just as good as they’re albums, they did “You,” “Generator,” and a couple from the newer albums, but the energy was intense, a couple of pits in front of the stage and a bunch of people floating with a little help from the crowd, I was just signing along with the songs like it was ten years ago.
After a bunch of songs, we had to head over to the Wu stage, you need to understand I’m a huge fan, and I missed out on a concert about ten years ago when they were supposed to perform with Rage Against the Machine, before Wu-Tang dropped the LA shows, I sold my tickets after that.
Damn, they rocked the house! Everyone was there, with the exception of O.D.B.(RIP), they had the crowd singing along with all there songs, and it wasn’t limited to the groups’ somgs, they did a couple of Meth and Raekwon’s songs, it was sick! The whole crowd was into it, they has such a presence on stage. Kanye West came on after them, but it was a hard act to follow, Kanye’s got some talent, but I’m sick of him saying how great he is. Wu-Tang doesn’t need to pull that, they are one of the greatest, it goes without saying, and it’s obvious when they’re on stage. “Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothing to fuck with!”
All in all, it ws a great trip, I got to see a couple of legends on stage. It was funny, a friend of mine didn’t care about Bad Religion, he said, “I don’t want to see a bunch of old guys still trying to rock,” how wrong you were, they both rocked the house and next year I need to be there for both days.
Never miss a chance to see your favorite artists on stage.
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That’s pretty much all I’ve been doing, but its a good thing. I’ll be updating my portfolio with some new projects if I can make some time. Busy at the day job as well, lots of exciting projects, so stay tuned.
I just wanted to wish Happy New Year to all my friends and family, 2005 has been a great year, but I think that 2006 is going to bring a lot positive things for myself and others.
My new PowerBook arrived right before Christmas, and I must say was kind of a big present for myself. But in my own defense, I needed to upgrade badly, and this is going to really help out with my work load. I’m ordering 2 Gigs of RAM to max out the system, but I must say that this thing powers through the work that bogged down my other 2 computers.
I’m going to fix my iBook and give it to my brother, he needs something for school work and the internet, so its perfect for his needs right now.
As for my work load, its been pretty hectic, a couple of great projects at Evolve and a couple of nice freelance projects have been monopolyzing most of my time, but the work has been great.
Additionally, I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.0 and have upgraded to the newest version of K2 which seem pretty solid. I need more time, but the work’s keeping me out of trouble.
I just bought a new model, Powerbook G4 1.67GHz, 15-inch screen with 1 GB of RAM. I’ve been stuck with an aging PC at home and an iBook I received from my parents not too long ago. I’m hoping the new laptop will replace both machines at home and increase productivity. Right now, my 1 GHz Pentium III system at home can barely run Photoshop and Illustrator at the same time.
Besides that I’ve been pretty busy with various freelance projects and I can’t wait to add some new stuff to my portfolio and get back to cover interesting things.
Now for the worst part, waiting…
Firefox 1.5 was released this week, plus Mozilla.com redesigned for the launch.
I’m very disappointed with Arrested Development being cancelled, just as I thought they had a good thing going with the new season, FOX pulls the plug. I’m sure we’ll have plenty more crappy FOX shows to watch that will bomb, some won’t even make it past the first episode, but it will be too late, the cast and crew of the Bluth residence will have moved on to new projects. I thought the acting and direction were great, everybody had chemistry, but I guess it wasn’t popular with everyone.
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