Xeeban’s Musings

Did you remember to set your clock forward an hour? I’ve always hated Daylight Savings time. I lose an hour of sleep! Grrr.

I am drooling over these new phones from Sony Ericsson. I just got my new T-610 phone and am very happy with it, but these new phones are so much more drool worthy.

The K700
The S700

Okay, this is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. Robots that can play soccer. No just the basic game, but they can do things like hand stands, get up from the ground, hang their heads in shame. Take a look at the little movies that are on the site. Sweet stuff!

Here is a sample: one of the robots doing a handstand.

This was in my old blog, and it is important enough, I wanted to make sure it was here. I’ve run across some neat tutorials on solfege that are a great introduction to the whys and hows of it all. Read them here:

Introduction to Solfege
Solfege – Part 2
Solfege – Part 3

I’ve reconstructed the solfege section in the Resources area. I’ll be adding more to it in the coming days, but the basic files are back. I’ll try to add some more tutorial materials as well to make it more complete. Enjoy.

A while back, several friends and I started blogging about an experiment we did regarding our sleep. We attempted something called polyphasic sleep, or “Uberman Sleep” as its known on the net. You can read my blog about it from the link labeled “Polyphasic Sleep”.

Its been a while since I updated that blog, so I’ll use this one to post any new developments. One question that I get frequently is if I am still on it. The short answer is “not really.”

Why? Read on.

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I’ve dug deep into my browser’s on-disk cache and discovered that I has some JPEGs of my studio there, and a quick search of Google recovered my old studio page. So with those two serendipitous events, I’ve been able to reconstruct my studio page. Enjoy!

Here I am with a brand spankin’ new site. Why, you may ask? Well… its a painful story of how a stupid person picked the wrong hosting company and basically lost everything to a hard drive crash. My provider was doing a “routine” upgrade of hardware when there was a problem… then my web site went “black” (off-line, down, buh-bye) for 5 days without a single response to several frantic support tickets. Then on the 5th day, the bad news. Really bad news. They lost a hard drive. A score of customers were affected in some way. A handful lost everything. And, oops, sorry, we don’t have any backups. Yes, I was one of those unlucky few to loose it all. Poof, digital oblivion.

So here I am. New provider (that does regular backups!), new blogging software. Let’s hope that this time I stay around for a while… =)