Rant #101 Friday, January 28, 2005

Over the next week, I plan on getting as many pages of 2214 done as possible. Tomorrow, I plan on getting page 105 done (at least. There's nothing else to do tomorrow, unless my connection fails again.)

I'm playing with some ideas for new site designs. Using Flash, fancy javascript... stuff like that. Not to replace what's already here, though, just as a new 'skin' for the site.

If you notice that the site loads faster, that's thanks to using GZIP compression. The site code compresses the HTML that's sent to your browser, which takes the 21000 byte index page and reduces it to a mere 6400 bytes. That's a nice time saver when you're on dial-up. As for the images on the site.... well... those can't help but be pretty large since image quality is important. Don't get me wrong, though, they are still as compressed as possible without looking horrible.

DrumDan got a set of Roland V-drums... which I'd been encouraging him to get for a while now. They are awesome. Not only do they have all the drum kits that my SC-880 synth has, but many more. We recorded a song with them, along with him on guitar, and my usual keyboard and bass. If you haven't heard it yet, it's here .

Again, this week is catch-up time. Expect more 2214 updates and maybe some more Omnitemporalis, too.

Seriously.