2007

Sat, Mar 31

<22:23 EEST> Found a nice site that shares my pro-leisure, anti-wage-slavery view on many levels. This is a topic I've read and written about a number of times, so perhaps a dedicated rant page is in order.

Tue, Mar 27

<23:40 EEST> Helges Leben premiered over a week ago, and I'm barely feeling like sitting down to type from all the action. The party stayed at Ilokivi until about 8 am, the longest premiere for me so far :) Critical reception has been mixed, unfortunately, but then again this isn't a fun and easy piece that you could just recommend for everyone.

DJing at the party went somewhat more smoothly than usual. Sami had agreed to play his weird synth-pop records as well, and many others had picked the hint on the overall musical theme. For example our director Mirka had a number of Waltari CDs with her, but I guess it wasn't surprising that we shared some taste in music after working on the actual theatrical score of Helges :)

Another smoothing factor was my long-pending decision to get an external hard drive so as to avoid carrying all those DVD+Rs. After a quick look over a few days, I found a nice bargain in the LaCie 250 GB USB for mere 85 Euros at Kampus-Data. Of course, Firewire would have been better on many grounds, but more expensive as well, and the speed differences don't really matter in this kind of 'dumb storage' application.

In fact I'm somewhat positively surprised by the performance of USB drives. I don't like the technical decisions behind USB, being originally geared towards relatively dumb and slow peripherals and later patched to overcome its initial limitations. In practice, though, I haven't experienced any of the purported shortcomings, such as high CPU load, and I get consistent read throughput of around 24 MB/s.

Naturally the successful completion of yet another artistic project leaves me a little empty, along with the nearly finished studies as of this term. Fortunately I've got new projects underway if only I could get started ;)