Comments for Mike O'Connor

Comment on Whit Diffie is the new VP of info-security and cryptography at ICANN! Kewl! by Nigel Roberts

Nigel Roberts — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:24:18 +0000

I was really privileged to meet Whit (and Mikey as well) hanging around on street corners and in alleyways in Beenhouwerstraat and the vicinity. (Hint: there was an ICANN meeting in Brussels this week and that's where Delerium and some cool eating places are situate.).

Couldn't agree more!

Comment on Why I returned my iPad after 3 hours by Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:17:05 +0000

I definitely hear you on this post. The Android prototypes I've seen so far look promising, we shall see.

Comment on Comments/Questions by Liz Swan

Liz Swan — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:49:26 +0000

Comment from a "cranky network person" today I hate that you own blueportal.bluene.corp.com domain. Caused all sorts of pains in the rear as a unnamed large client with not so smart engineers - used your dang domain for their internal network server - which they expect me to allow people on my network enterprise access too via VPN tunnel but can I use just an IP address - because hey that's all NATs anyway....no...no...that would make sense - no the stupid webserver has headers requiring use of the FQDN.... Could do a host file but if your requiring a proxy server that pretty much is going to defeat that - can bypass but that will mean rolling out all new .pac files in the entire enterprise. You really are my second least favorite person today (although totally through no fault of yours) next to the afore said "engineers" that implemented that mess. I am having them look at giving me any actual valid DNS alias for their domain - because I refuse to host bad DNS on my domains but dang man - you remind me why I hate the internet so much. Yes..I make decent money as a network engineer, I've been doing this a really long time, I should. But I still hate the internet; or that's probably too strong, perhaps I just don't like what it has become.

Comment on Music workstation by Mike O'Connor

Mike O'Connor — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:00:31 +0000

Hi Michael! I posted one tune a month or so ago. Here's the link - http://www.haven2.com/index.php/archives/new-mikey-tune-first-flight-of-lots-of-new-stuff

But to be truthful, I've got a long way to go before I'm super-prolific. The newest version of the software I use (SONAR Producer) has just swamped me with new features and approaches. Right now I'm learning about beats and slicing from my younger-generation friends. All I can say about the result is... Um... I have a lot to learn. But I'll try to post something soon...

Speakers are tricky. Super dependent on personal taste and the kind of music you listen to. So my monitors (the edge of one of the EV Sx300s is just showing in the upper left of the picture) would probably drive you crazy -- they're really left-overs from my stage gear. They're fantastic when you throw a lot of watts at them and want to rock the hall but they hiss like crazy in this quiet room 'cause they're so efficient. I actually need to hook up a pair of really *bad* speakers for mixing. I find that my mixes, done on these speakers with the Crown amp, often sound terrible when they come through the little speakers on my MacBook for example.

Comment on Music workstation by Michael Fraase

Michael Fraase — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:56:30 +0000

So, Mikey, when are we going to hear some of this alleged music?

I'm trying to decide on new near-field monitors (for listening; not producing). Thought I had it whittled down to M-Audio Studiophile AV 40, Behringer Truth B2021A (active monitors), and B&W MM-1 (was really looking forward to these; they're very disappointing). But none sound as good as the Missions that came paired with my Denon UDRA-M10.

Any suggestions?

Comment on Music workstation by steve cheatham

steve cheatham — Sat, 08 May 2010 23:08:23 +0000

Nice layout.

Comment on Mom’s old musicbox by Steve

Steve — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:40:53 +0000

I wonder if that area of the label that was cut out on top of your moms music box was were the year it was manufactured was displayed.

Comment on Eames chairs by Barbara Putney

Barbara Putney — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:58:39 +0000

...and to think my mother was going to leave my dad's chair in the house when she sold it! The buyer was VERY disappointed when I grabbed it and took it home with me!

Comment on Why I returned my iPad after 3 hours by Cantrell Online » Blog Archive » 7 people who are returning their iPads

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:24:02 +0000

[...] O`Connor returned his iPad “after 3 hours.” He did so with vague uncertainty: “I don’t really know why [...]

Comment on The boat is back, and it’s lovely by Mike O'Connor

Mike O'Connor — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:00:40 +0000

Beats me -- those guys at Imperial Boat Repair did all that cool paint-matching. You're right, they did a great job.