John Desu » General http://www.johndesu.com culture, tech, music, and code Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:52:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Monthly or so mixes of the latest electronic, progressive, and trance tunes. John Dyer no John Dyer lbrapid@gmail.com lbrapid@gmail.com (John Dyer) Moving forward with the web and great music trance,free,mixes,electronic,electro,progressive John Desu » General http://www.johndesu.com/images/podcastlogo.jpg http://www.johndesu.com/category/general/ Split of a microsecond http://www.johndesu.com/2009/02/23/split-of-a-microsecond/ http://www.johndesu.com/2009/02/23/split-of-a-microsecond/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:58:46 +0000 John Dyer http://www.johndesu.com/2009/02/23/split-of-a-microsecond/

Split of a microsecond, originally uploaded by Laati.

Wow, when your up at 6AM in the morning studying for a Psychology test and you run into a photo as beautiful as this, you just gotta tell somebody about it. It’s quite euphoric to look at and a great find.

See, browsing the Digg homepage at any hour can have great results.

]]> http://www.johndesu.com/2009/02/23/split-of-a-microsecond/feed/ 0 Mix Podcast Episode 002: February 23, 2009 http://www.johndesu.com/2009/02/23/mix-podcast-episode-002-february-23-2009/ http://www.johndesu.com/2009/02/23/mix-podcast-episode-002-february-23-2009/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:24:09 +0000 John Dyer http://www.johndesu.com/?p=142 Wow, I’m enjoying making podcast mixes a lot more than I thought I would. Maybe they will keep coming more than once or twice a month. This episode I have stepped away from the housey, progressive feel of the previous podcast and am focusing on just really good trance music. There are more songs with vocals this episode and a lot of songs I think need to get more recognition. Anyways, I’m trying to come up with a good name for the podcast. Any suggestions?

Enjoy!

Track Listing:

  1. Creeps – Sebastian Sand
  2. Vampire (Feat Carrie Skipper – Gareth Emery’s Garuda Remix) – Myon & Shane 54
  3. Pandora (The Blizzard Remix) – Mike Foyle
  4. Groove Nova (Oliver Smith Tech Remix) – Jaytech
  5. The Gift – Pryda
  6. Fly to Colors (Genix Remix) – Markus Schulz
  7. Nova (Original Rise Mix) – Daniel Kandi
  8. 7 Skies (Cressida Remix) – Kyau & Albert
  9. Anthem (Nic Chagall Remix) – Filo & Peri Feat Eric Lumeire

Running Time: 57:40

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]]> http://www.johndesu.com/2009/02/23/mix-podcast-episode-002-february-23-2009/feed/ 0 Wow, I'm enjoying making podcast mixes a lot more than I thought I would. Maybe they will keep coming more than once or twice a month. This episode I have stepped away from the housey, progressive feel of the previous podcast and am focusing on just re... Wow, I'm enjoying making podcast mixes a lot more than I thought I would. Maybe they will keep coming more than once or twice a month. This episode I have stepped away from the housey, progressive feel of the previous podcast and am focusing on just really good trance music. There are more songs with vocals this episode and a lot of songs I think need to get more recognition. Anyways, I'm trying to come up with a good name for the podcast. Any suggestions? Enjoy! Track Listing: Creeps - Sebastian Sand Vampire (Feat Carrie Skipper - Gareth Emery's Garuda Remix) - Myon & Shane 54 Pandora (The Blizzard Remix) - Mike Foyle Groove Nova (Oliver Smith Tech Remix) - Jaytech The Gift - Pryda Fly to Colors (Genix Remix) - Markus Schulz Nova (Original Rise Mix) - Daniel Kandi 7 Skies (Cressida Remix) - Kyau & Albert Anthem (Nic Chagall Remix) - Filo & Peri Feat Eric Lumeire Running Time: 57:40 Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe with RSS John Dyer no Why I’m using Skribit http://www.johndesu.com/2009/01/18/why-im-using-skribit/ http://www.johndesu.com/2009/01/18/why-im-using-skribit/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:44:00 +0000 John Dyer http://www.johndesu.com/?p=91 If you haven’t noticed yet I have added a new item in the right sidebar called Skribit. Skribit essentially is a blog topic suggestion application developed by Paul Stamatiou. Paul is a recent graduate of Georgia Tech and is now working on Skribit full time. If you haven’t checked out his blog yet, I’d definitely suggest reading it. Plenty of good inspiration and great posts over there.

I hope to use Skribit as a way to communicate with my readers directly about the topics I write about. I mostly plan on writing tutorials about using CSS and Ruby on Rails to develop web applications and with Skribit now all of my readers will be able to suggest topics for me to write about.Stats about individual posts on my site are great, but I still think that using a method of user suggestion will allow me to write content that more people want to read. I will also place topic suggestions of my own on Skribit and put more focus on topics that are voted on the most. With that said I am going to continue focusing on writing more great tutorials and resource lists. Thanks for reading.

]]> http://www.johndesu.com/2009/01/18/why-im-using-skribit/feed/ 0 I have moved. And wordpress 2.7. http://www.johndesu.com/2009/01/02/i-have-moved-and-wordpress-27/ http://www.johndesu.com/2009/01/02/i-have-moved-and-wordpress-27/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:32:26 +0000 John Dyer http://www.johndesu.com/2009/01/02/i-have-moved-and-wordpress-27/ I have finally dropped my horrid GoDaddy.com hosting and am now proud to be on Media Temple. Having this new host will finally allow me to deploy some of the web projects I’ve been working on.

Also, I have upgraded to WordPress 2.7 and everything should be running smooth. If you notice anything at all please leave a comment to let me know. Also, I have set my server to automatically back itself up to Amazon S3 daily at midnight using a bash shell script and a Cron job. If you are interested in this please check out the great post from Brendan Nee. One issue I had: I had to remove the double quotes used for the location of the key file in order to get s3-bash to recognize the file existed.

Happy new year again!

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As far as everything else goes, I’m headed back to Pittsburgh in a few days for my spring semester where I will be focusing pretty much full time on computer science now.

Anyways, I will be updating to wordpress 2.7 later today(when I wake up) and hopefully that will go smoothly.

Happy New Year!

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