I’ve been working a bit with the LS9 from Yamaha this summer…so far I like it, despite the fact that it’s a digital mixing console. The only real headache, is that I can’t get my computer connected to it!

The LS9 Editor works properly through Wine, but as the LS9 simulates MIDI over Ethernet, you need an additonal driver and control panel applet. The applet works and can be configured correctly and the console is pingable, but for the moment my computer doesn’t see the simulated interface. As the rest of the software apparently works as it should, I’m guessing that Wine can’t find, or can’t use the driver. Running the whole thing under a VM will probably work, although higher latency will probably make it unusable when it comes to metering and some other realtime monitoring functions.

So, this is it! 95,5% of the content on the Internet as we know it consists of blogs, most of which are pointless! People blogging about the latest shoes they bought, random people enjoying their 15 minutes of fame are just two common examples, and now I’m one of them. I hate blogs, or most types of blogs. People publishing everything they feel, think or do should not be allowed to have a blog! Anyways; I sincerely hope  that I won’t become one of those… That being said, some good blogs actually exists! Dadhacker.com, and Confusicus (in Norwegian) are two of them. These are good examples of how to have a good blog; the first one mainly consists of random musings from Landon Dyer, who publish a lot of good stories from way back when the C64 still were being produced. The other blog is of a more serious nature, raising a lot of important questions on current events, without sounding like propaganda.

The idea for this blog started with the same basic lust for money as most other get-rich-quick-schemes. Although a fairly old by now, there still is some buzz around Google’s AdSense, which basically allows you to put ads on a website, earning you money for ever visitor that clicks on one of the ads. However, most forum posts I’ve come over tend to disagree as to how much money you may actually earn from it (the earnings naturally scales with the number of visitors), but I wanted to see how this would be reflected on a site with few daily hits.  Also, this is a nice opportunity for me to actually play around with some SEO; as I currently work as a programmer (mostly PHP) for a company in Norway, it’s nice to see if all the tricks actually do anything for the traffic. The idea is basically to generate content, thus raising SERPS, which should result in more hits, and more cash. At least this is how everything would be in theory in a perfect world.

Anyways, I don’t really know how much content I’ll be able to create, as I’ve got quite a lot of stuff to do in real life. As for the content itself, I don’t plan to write about anything or anyone. Mostly, it will be random stuff I come across on the net, at work, or any other place. Don’t really know yet.