Technology

Ardour is an amazing piece of software, but sometimes it still crashes. This is not entirely its own fault - plugins have to run in the same process so ultimately Ardour has no control over some of the code it ends up running. I find it pretty stable, but when you are syncing it with MuseScore and/or video things get a bit twitchy.

Of course, we all know to save early, save often - but when you're in the creative flow it's easy to lose track of time and not save for quite some time.

I've had to work this out again since reinstalling my laptop so thought I might record the result here...

Typical issues found when trying to get Ardour and MuseScore to work together is that MuseScore jumps around in a BAD way when it hits tempo changes from JACK, or it locks up, spewing lovely digital detritus into your monitors.

The best method I've found thus far (although it still does that lockup thing from time to time) is:

First rule of XML club is "Never use text munging tools with XML".

Here's a case where I successfully used text munging tools with XML.

If you spend any time in Google Webmaster tools and run a drupal site you've probably come across a collection of "Soft-404" warnings from google.

From: http://xkcd.com/488/

DRM shifts the balance of power so far away from users that it is against their interests, and therefore, arguably, against the interests of the artists and even the publishers.

After a year or more of occasionally glancing sideways at it, I finally decided to take a look at twitter.

Joel Spolsky expands on the Evidence-based Scheduling method that he uses and has mentioned in passing a number of times.

It sounds pretty interesting, but adopting it would mean