Beyond the Rhetoric

As you may have heard, I’m still in Taiwan. This is my third time here, but I have only ventured outside of Taipei once. That was for a set of factory tours. Since I’m here for an extra week this time around, I wanted to make it a point to visit places outside of the [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these blog posts. Doing a quick search through my archives, I believe the last glimpse into my music playlist was way back in March 2008. My musical tastes are best described as eclectic, so it’s not surprising that I’ve “discovered” some new tunes since then. While [...]

No, I have no real ambitions to replace Oprah Winfrey any time soon, but we are coming up on the end of the year. As such, I thought that I would take a moment to highlight some of my favorite things from 2010, mostly in the world of entertainment, but also amongst the realm of [...]

“Something I do in the studio is revisit a tune that’s been recorded and just jam along with my guitar to see what I can come up with. If I find something that makes me go, “Whoa, I really like that,” I’ll go in and alter the song to include that new layer. I find [...]

Video blogging, video reviews, and other uses of online video are more popular than ever. If a picture is worth a thousand words and the standard video is 30 frames a second, you are effectively getting 1.8 million words a minute. (I’ll pause for a moment as you confirm my calculations.) That’s all well and [...]