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Jeff Covey — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:10:11 +0000

i was sure there must be such a thing, and a moment’s search found wptouch, a plugin which makes a wordpress site (like this) look beautiful on iphones, android devices, blackberries, etc.

not just beautiful, but functional. i’m really impressed with how it feels like a native app on the iphone, with integration with other apps and sites for tweeting, bookmarking, etc. wonderful work!

photos moved to flickr

Jeff Covey — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:17:20 +0000

big step forward! after months of slowly uploading my old photo galleries, one set at a time, they’ve finally all been transfered to flickr. that’s a big chunk of my old site moved to its new home (and, given intervening circumstances, probably all of the master plan i’ll accomplish for quite some time).

try it!:

http://jeffcovey.net/photos/

happy viewing.

old news

Jeff Covey — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:51:54 +0000

rather than make dozens of posts here, i decided just to put all of the news announcements from my old site on this one page.

ch-ch-ch-changes…
new in june 2009
06/26/2009	re-arranging the furniture i’ve been moving bits (and bytes) and pieces of my digital life around. i’d like to share how i’ve been managing my various detritus and welcome your ideas for filling some of the gaps. click here for more…
06/04/2009	memory lane after seven months, i’ve finally finished digitizing all my photo prints and negatives, preserving my pre-digital pics from grade school through the late 90s. i’ve put them on flickr. i’m happy with the amount of information flickr can save about photos and their various ways of presenting it. in addition to seeing them as i organized them, you can poke around and see them according to when they were taken (approximately, in many cases), see a map showing where they were taken, etc. i hope you enjoy, especially if you spot yourself anywhere! maybe someday i’ll write some scripts to migrate http://jeffcovey.net/photos/ to flickr. for now, i’ll just continue putting any new images there.
new in april 2009
04/26/2009	a cat’s life my new camera can make time-lapse videos, so i was able to capture 12 minutes in the life of my cat. i should buy a large memory card so i can record several hours of the same. click here for more…
new in march 2009
03/26/2009	multiple exposures in the course of cleaning the basement, i found another box of cassettes, including one of this piece of music i thought was gone for good. i’m glad to get a copy digitized while the tape was still in good condition! click here for more…
03/14/2009	live at last the new version of freshmeat.net has gone live. congratulations to scoop and greg — go get some sleep! click here for more…
03/11/2009	backing up flickr? i’m thinking of moving my photos to flickr, and posted a question to metafilter about backup tools. please let me know if you have any tips to share. click here for more…
03/09/2009	when it rains the fates decided that having glenn in rehab for months didn’t keep me busy enough, so they added another course to my plate. after a few years of thinking about it, my boss dug into the herculean chore of producing the next version of freshmeat.net. it’s looking great and i’m excited about it, but also a little anxious to get back to a regular schedule. life is upside down — i’m spending more time online and have gone from carfree to carlite to driving every day! it’s a 15-minute drive to rehab, and since how long he’d be there was uncertain, a daily drive trumped as the solution most economical of time and money. i’m looking forward to the end of both situations and to giving the car and my screen-tired eyes a rest. i wrote a series of short articles detailing what’s happening with freshmeat. scoop’s outdoing himself, as always. click here for more…
new in february 2009
02/09/2009	clean hair once more took some photos of the results of our bathroom renovation. click here for more…
new in january 2009
01/27/2009	feeds most of my visible online activity is happening in other places these days, so i’ve added boxes down the right side of my homepage with the most recent items from me-related syndication feeds.
01/25/2009	tweet! i decided i may actually use twitter if i can jott to it from my cellphone, and don’t have to bother with sms messages. click here for more…
new in december 2008
12/15/2008	pinapog pinapog is not a photo of glenn. click here for more…
new in september 2008
09/19/2008	tai chi 2008 thanks again to paul, i have a tai chi video of myself for this year. click here for more…
new in august 2008
08/10/2008	conspicuous carsumption i deliquified a big chunk of cash this week. click here for more…
08/01/2008	cellphone advice wanted after a couple of duds, i’m looking for a usable cellphone. please chime in if you have any suggestions. click here for more…
new in july 2008
07/07/2008	sailing away again i added a new strategy for spending more time outdoors. click here for more…
new in june 2008
06/01/2008	without a net i’ve posted an article with some thoughts i’ve had lately about living with (and without) computers. click here for more…
new in may 2008
05/25/2008	comment posting i plan to post two articles here soon, so i finally got around to making comment posting a little more abuse-proof and re-enabling it. it’s been turned back on for a couple of days and has foiled the spambots so far, so give it a try if there was something added here recently about which you wanted to reply.
new in april 2008
04/26/2008	chicago i’ve posted some photos from a short trip to chicago. click here for more…
new in january 2008
01/25/2008	just the tikit hitting the town on my little wheels. click here for more…
new in december 2007
12/16/2007	house no more i had to pour time and money into it all fall, but the house is finally settled, less than three months after it went on the market. i posted my wrap-up thoughts. click here for more…
new in november 2007
11/12/2007	my 43 things i decided to use “43 things” to write about, find encouragement for, and seek help with my “four hour work week” “dreamlines”. click here for more…
new in september 2007
09/28/2007	house for sale my house goes on the market today. pass the word along if you know anyone looking for a home in the baltimore/washington area. click here for more…
09/23/2007	hold me now no longer falling for the neighbors. click here for more…
09/16/2007	next steps on lodge road how much more white could this be? and the answer is none. none more white. click here for more…
09/15/2007	‘sup? i wrote an article for freshmeat. click here for more…
new in august 2007
08/21/2007	bach prelude 924a i typeset one of the pieces i was planning to learn this summer before my summer went screwy. it’s here and off to mutopia. click here for more…
08/07/2007	grandcentral i was just approved for a beta account with grandcentral.com, which seems terrific so far. i’m curious to know what they’ll charge once they’re out of beta, but in the meantime, i’ve added a flash applet from them which you can use to call me. just enter your name and phone number, and they’ll call you and try to connect you to me. click here for more…
new in july 2007
07/22/2007	move finished everything’s been moved to linode now; let me know if you see any problems!
07/21/2007	linode the computer that hosts jeffcovey.net started throwing kernel panics recently. it seemed to be overheating, and replacing the power supply and fixing the cpu fan helped for a time, but it’s continued to be stable for progressively smaller periods. i’ve decided to try hosting with linode instead of nursing it back to health. it’s been very handy to have my server in the next room all these years and be able to add whatever hardware i want to it, but my life has become busy enough of late that it’s worth it to me to just pay someone else to worry about hardware and connectivity instead of spending a day with a screwdriver plugging and unplugging and coaxing a machine back to life every few months. so far, i’ve been very happy with linode’s way of doing things, and they have a high reputation among the oftc crowd. we’ll see how it goes. if you’re reading this, it means dns has propagated to you and you’re reaching jc.net at linode. i hadn’t planned to make the move quite so quickly, but when i woke this morning, the file transfer was done and the old server wasn’t even finishing its boot sequence, so i went ahead. not everything’s in place (comments are down for the moment), but at least it’s up and running.
07/17/2007	wheeling i grabbed a few photos on my way through wheeling yesterday. click here for more…
07/11/2007	rialto ripples redux i offered my guitar trio arrangement of this george gershwin rag to mutopia back in 2003, but they were wary of the copyright and wouldn’t take it until 70 years after the composer’s death. gershwin died this day in 1937, so to celebrate, i updated the files for the latest lilypond version and will submit them to mutopia again. cross your fingers! click here for more…
07/02/2007	tai chi video thanks to one of my classmates, i’ve had the chance to watch myself practice tai chi for the first time! click here for more…
new in june 2007
06/19/2007	perils of renting i was just thinking it’s been so long since i posted anything on my personal site. well, here’s my summer fun so far. click here for more…
new in february 2007
02/28/2007	33 years of progress they don’t make ‘em like they used to. click here for more…
new in january 2007
01/03/2007	new hard drive we came back from a wonderful new year’s party^[1] and slept for a day, then i got up and put the new hard drive that’s been sitting around for a few weeks into jeffcovey.net. it’s a fresh debian installation, but everything seems to be back up and running. let me know if you see any problems. hope you had a happy holiday season with family and friends, and that the new year brings you all the best!
new in november 2006
11/01/2006	frederick county bridges one bridge, two bridge, three bridge tour. click here for more…
new in september 2006
09/18/2006	jerusalem mill photos are up from a recent excursion. click here for more…
new in august 2006
08/03/2006	no longer in doubt click here for more…
new in june 2006
06/22/2006	sorry, wrong number my bright idea of the day. click here for more…
06/16/2006	fish jumpin’, cotton high film at 4:30. click here for more…
06/15/2006	i’m so glad i took progress report photos of the gladiolus shoots, ignored the many other brown spots without even this much poking out. click here for more…
06/13/2006	rooooof reeeeevisited i was back on a brighter day, and got some nicer photos. click here for more…
06/12/2006	rooooof lodge road gets a new hat. click here for more…
new in may 2006
05/19/2006	the black thumb strikes again! can you dig it? click here for more…
05/02/2006	don’t cross the streams! saw an aberration in the ymoyl graph this month. click here for more…
new in march 2006
03/22/2006	two pages in c i added the score and a couple of recordings of something i wrote for umbc’s new music ensemble. click here for more…
03/06/2006	senior recital recording! i never thought the day would come, but i have the recording of my umbc senior recital to share at last. click here for more…
new in january 2006
01/05/2006	bach inventions corrected urs metzger found a couple of errors in the inventions, so i’ve updated my copies. thanks! click here for more…
01/03/2006	happy new year! i moved all the new items from 2005 onto their own page. hope the new year is a good one for you! click here for more…
new in december 2005
12/30/2005	sor andante largo i just finished an engraving i started five years ago. i’m following mark van den borre’s good example and writing much neater source files now; i hope you enjoy it. click here for more…
12/26/2005	what the house has cost as a bit of year-end financial tidying, i’ve calculated what the house has cost and what i might expect if i sold it today. click here for more…
12/05/2005	poem i stepped out of the house at 6:00 the other morning and walked through a small town that looked like it might not hurt anyone. click here for more…
new in november 2005
11/14/2005	gambrill state park we made our autumn scenery-seeing trip for the year. click here for more…
11/08/2005	boordy vineyards the photos from sunday’s trip are up. click here for more…
11/04/2005	free money! an offer from a bank i like prompted me to add some notes about how i bank these days. click here for more…
new in october 2005
10/28/2005	hardware upgrade thanks to pj for recommending a new motherboad for ye olde server. i now have a print server once again, and jeffcovey.net should be more reliable. the venerable pentium 200 with 96mb of ram has given way to an 800mhzish machine with a shocking 512mb of ram, so there should be no more waking to a screen full of out-of-memory errors. enjoy!
10/24/2005	the weather up there along with the family photos posted yesterday, colleen sent another photo of the big man. click here for more…
10/23/2005	photos from one end of the train trip thanks to colleen, i have three more photos from my trip. click here for more…
10/22/2005	what the car cost i tallied the whole business from purchase to sale. click here for more…
10/12/2005	riding the rails i had a wonderful trip. photos up. click here for more…
10/05/2005	all aboard! amtrak is back in my good graces, for at least one route. i wish the northeast corridor were priced more like this. click here for more…
10/01/2005	zoooom! dropping the weight of the car shoots my balloon into the clouds. click here for more…
new in september 2005
09/28/2005	article on 43 folders merlin mann was kind enough to post a short article i wrote on his fun blog, “43 folders”. click here for more…
09/21/2005	the cost of the car trip and alternatives i tallied the cost of my july trip and of alternatives i might use to make the same trip now that i’ve sold the car. click here for more…
09/19/2005	saddle up food lion, ho! click here for more…
09/06/2005	carfree off the road again. click here for more…
new in august 2005
08/08/2005	wild goose jukai thanks to kanzan, i have photos from last month’s sesshin. click here for more…
08/05/2005	bike! i want to ride my biiiiiicycle, biiiiiiiiiiiiicycle! click here for more…
new in july 2005
07/03/2005	del.icio.us bookmarks i find myself coming across items of interest which i’d like to share but which don’t necessarily warrant an addition to my homesite, so i’ve drunk the del.icio.us kool-aid, and started a public bookmarks list. if you’re interested, you can subscribe here. click here for more…
new in june 2005
06/24/2005	carulli fughetta i’ve added the score for a little fugue by carulli. you can hear dave and me playing it in the recordings section. click here for more…
06/23/2005	car cost i took the car in for its first service since i stopped using it regularly, at a cost of roughly half of my average monthly expenses for the last six months. blah. click here for more…
06/22/2005	scores updated for lilypond 2.4 after working on-and-off for a few months, i’ve got all my scores working with and regenerated by lilypond 2.4.5. let me know if you see any problems. click here for more…
06/10/2005	new investments i posted a few notes about the new investments i’m making after burying my head in books this spring. click here for more…
06/01/2005	sailing away just add lemon and ice. click here for more…
new in may 2005
05/31/2005	get on the bus i’ve posted some thoughts on the six-month anniversary of letting my car rest. click here for more…
05/26/2005	next! snip… snip… snip… click here for more…
05/25/2005	suggestions i’ve posted a list of ideas which i hope you may find helpful. click here for more…
05/11/2005	books i’ve expanded the list of recommended books i used to keep in my simplicity section, and moved it into a section of its own. click here for more…
05/04/2005	books for sale i’m down to two cds for sale on amazon, but have been going through my stack of guitar music and instruction books, and added a dozen of them to the list. somebody seems to want them; two sold before i got around to putting them here. click here for more…
05/02/2005	401(k) common wisdom has always told me that if you have the chance to invest in a 401(k) plan, you should jump at it. i’ve never been so sure, and even after being tempted again recently, i’m still ambivalent at best. what can you do when you’d like to participate, but all your options are awful? click here for more…
new in april 2005
04/22/2005	the second batch of mp3s here’s me by myself around junior recital time. click here for more…
04/21/2005	mp3s of my music days here’s one from the long-time-coming department. i finally got around to getting some of the recordings from my college days digitized. i ended up just going back to the umbc recording studio, and they did a great job. unfortunately, they weren’t able to give me the only thing i really wanted, mp3s of my senior recital. after three months, they said they no longer have a dat player, and couldn’t transfer it, nor the two other dats i had. if anyone has a lead for getting this done, please let me know. in the meantime, we’re stuck with what they could transfer, the cassettes. the first batch combines the low-definition charm of the microphone on my boombox with the earnest but ability-challenged efforts of myself and friends during our first year at school. enjoy! click here for more…
04/18/2005	cds for sale i went through my remaining cds and found that more are now listed on amazon, so i’ve updated my forsale page. take a look if you’d like some music. click here for more…
04/14/2005	pioneers as part of spring cleaning, i’ve finally read through and purged with extreme prejudice the huge, incriminating folder of embarrassingly awful poetry, short stories, and plays (!) i wrote in high school and college. out of it all, i found one poem that i thought was worth typing and keeping. it runs the risk of glorifying people who were essentially invaders, but i think that at least the writing is good, and it gives a little look into their own varying perspectives. click here for more…
new in march 2005
03/27/2005	yes, i’m still here if you haven’t seen anything new here in a while, you can at least enjoy what isn’t here now. for the past few weeks, i’ve been going through my site bit by bit, day by day, and cleaning out a lot of the cruft that has accumulated over the years. i hope it’s getting a bit clearer and simpler.
03/02/2005	smow i took some photos of some transient beauty. click here for more…
03/01/2005	investment income back on the move i did the monthly ymoyl update and started projecting investment income again to give myself visual assurance that i’m going somewhere. click here for more…
new in january 2005
01/15/2005	o magnum mysterium updated the victoria score’s been updated for lily 2.4 and sent to mutopia. click here for more…
01/12/2005	lilypond at last! i suppose some dist-upgrade must have made me worthy at last; the contributed lilypond 2.4 package finally works for me, so i can do some of the projects that have been waiting for it. the first is an update to the bach air score from joe neeman. in addition to using a newer lilypond, it now provides both score and parts. thanks, joe! click here for more…
01/01/2005	new year’s tradition i’d like to invite you to share in my new year’s tradition: read the first chapter of walden once a year. click here for more…
new in december 2004
12/31/2004	a temporary problem of liquidity i’ve posted my year-end thoughts about my investing project. click here for more…
12/28/2004	all those pictures… at various times, i’ve taken lots of photos of this and that, and posted them here. now i have vindication and a reason to recommend the practice. my tenants evicted me from my house, so i had to switch from an owner-occupied homeowner’s insurance policy to a rental property “fire dwelling” one. my former insurance company doesn’t offer such a policy, so i had to switch companies. i was hoping to make the switch on the first of the year. the agent who was helping me over the phone said that normally, the company wants to inspect the house before writing a policy, but that if i had any pictures i could email him, he could try to talk them into accepting that. i assured him i had dozens. i sent him a link to my house pictures. an hour later, he called back and said they’d accepted them. we went through his long list of questions, and he could confirm most of what i said through the photos. when we came to my claim from last year, i directed him to the fall 2003 directory. i could hear him hitting “page down”, saying, “ok, there’s the damage… hey, and there’s the new shed. great.” the policy was approved instantly, and i didn’t have to wait up to 45 days for someone to come and see the house. i hope he enjoyed leebert’s special gift. click here for more…
12/22/2004	zen i’ve wanted for a long time to digitize my jukai photos and use one in making a short page about zen. i finally have the photos, and the page is up. click here for more…
12/21/2004	creative commons back in 1998, i placed all the original content on my site under the opencontent public license, a license similar to the gpl but not so software-specific. opencontent is no more, and the much better and much better-known creative commons has taken its place. i’ve switched to the creative commons attribution-sharealike license and put a notice at the bottoms of my pages. i’ve also added metadata, so if you use the nifty mozCC, you can see what’s what at a glance. click here for more…
12/19/2004	more gnuplot fun i learned a little more gnuplot, and my graphs are now a bit purtier and more legible. click here for more…
12/16/2004	netflix friends i like netflix’s service, even though they may win the award for worlds… slowest… website…. they just sent me notice that they’re testing a “friends” feature which lets people see each other’s ratings and comments on movies. i can’t think of anyone i know who uses netflix. if you do, let me know, and we can try it out. click here for more…
new in november 2004
11/26/2004	a pair of thanks i want to thank a couple of free services i’ve found which have helped make my homesite better. click here for more…
11/24/2004	the cost of having a car i did some computations this evening and came up with some very disturbing figures. click here for more…
11/15/2004	correction to bach invention 15 alert reader chris lamb saw that there was a mistake in bar 16 of this bach arrangement. this was something i simply transposed from the mutopia copy and never got around to really arranging. the mutopia copy had a mistake, so it found its way into mine. i’ve fixed my file and sent a corrected version of the original file to mutopia. thanks, chris! click here for more…
new in october 2004
10/25/2004	spoke too soon i had a nice surprise in this month’s mortgage payment. click here for more…
10/24/2004	carulli duet updated ruud van silfhout of the mutopia project wrote me to say that he had updated my carulli lilypond file to work with the latest version of lilypond. i’ve added his copy to my homepage as well, and regenerated the corresponding files. thanks! click here for more…
10/22/2004	freecycle carpet freecycle has made us look a little less slobish. click here for more…
10/18/2004	mortgage graphs i added two graphs to my ymoyl pages to convince myself that something’s really happening there. click here for more…
10/13/2004	the penn belle hotel the last item from “to scan”: the penn belle business card (see the two images at the bottom of the page). bellefonte’s largest! click here for more…
10/12/2004	jukai photos continuing with the contents of the “to scan” folder, i’ve added the photos from my jukai ceremony (taking the lay zen buddhist precepts). click here for more…
10/10/2004	portrait for several years, i’ve had a folder labeled “to scan”, filled with things that i wanted to scan into a computer. i finally accepted the fact that i’m not going to get a scanner, and took it all to kinko’s today. a cute dedicated machine from kodak scanned it all and burned it onto a cd for me. one of the items in the folder was a portrait of me which a coworker drew four or five years ago. click here for more…
new in september 2004
09/14/2004	photos of san jose i just got around to putting up some photos from 2001. click here for more…
09/10/2004	links to palmos applications’ homepages phil! asked that i link to the palmos projects’ homepages where possible, so links are now available. unfortunately, many applications were written long ago and forgotten, and have no definitive home on the web. others have gone commercial, and the free versions have been removed from the authors’ sites. in at least one case, google says i’m already the de facto authority. click here for more…
09/02/2004	three nice palmos applications i recently found three palmos applications i like: ksdatebook, plan-my-day, and “working hours”. (and kstodo, for completism.) click here for more…
09/01/2004	powered by google i’ve decided to stop having my hard drive ripped apart by htdig every day and just join the great washed masses who let google do the work. if you use the search box at the bottom of any page here now, you’ll get what google knows about what i know about what you want to know. let me know if you see any problems.
new in august 2004
08/25/2004	freecycle’s future i’ve been a moderator of freecyclebaltimore for a month now, and the experience has bothered me. i’ve put down my thoughts about it. click here for more…
08/11/2004	handnails now that i have a camera which can take photos at ridiculous-by-web-standards resolutions, i’m getting tired of how ugly my photos pages look with 1600×1200 images wedged into them. i rewrote that section of the site so that clicking on an image from an index takes you to a page with a version of the photo at 800×600 or less. clicking that version takes you to the full one if you really want it. click here for more…
08/10/2004	winter sunrise i looked in ~/camera/tmp/ and found some photos i took of the sunrise behind my house last december. click here for more…
08/06/2004	don’t park at d.c. metro stations i used to think washington, d.c. had a great subway system, but the people running it have suddenly gone quite insane. click here for more…
08/04/2004	trip to gettysburg glenn asked me to take my camera with us on a trip today, so i brought back some photos. click here for more…
08/03/2004	natural burial an email prompted me to take a look around the web, and i found it’s becoming easier to let your body do what it was meant to do after you die. click here for more…
08/02/2004	more wild goose photos steve and kurt went to wild goose last month. steve brought back stacks and stacks of photos, and i stole my favorites to put here. click here for more…
new in july 2004
07/28/2004	forsale updated a number of items i had for sale on amazon silently dropped from the site. i’ve updated all my listings; have a look and see if there’s anything you’d like. click here for more…
07/18/2004	dad’s 80th birthday i spent last weekend visiting family and celebrating my father’s 80th birthday. i stole my brother john’s photos to put here. click here for more…
07/04/2004	fahrenheit 9/11 i’ve added my few brief thoughts about the movie. click here for more…
07/02/2004	tall ships glenn and i took a long walk today, and i took a bunch of photos. click here for more…
07/01/2004	how to get (and give) free stuff the internet’s providing great new resources for sharing what you have and getting what you need. click here for more…
new in june 2004
06/29/2004	driveway sealant i learned the joy of driveway sealant today. click here for more…
06/28/2004	comments system i decided i wanted to make it possible for people to leave comments again, so i’ve added a comments system to the site. i looked around for something to use, but was unhappy with everything i found, so i wrote it from scratch. every page now has a “comments” link at the top which you can use to view comments about that page and post your own. i’ve tested it to the extent my programming skills allow, but it’s very possible it could have a bug or two or seven. please give it a try and let me know about your experience with it. it’s very simple and is currently flat only, but i’m recording parent-child information, so it could be made threaded later if it turns out that would be a good thing. enjoy!
06/27/2004	t-prot i wrote an article for freshmeat about a handy piece of software. click here for more…
06/23/2004	rss feed and more the frontpage news is now available in an rss feed here for those who like getting news through rss aggregators. in the process of doing this, i made three other changes. first, each news item in a table of news like the one on the front page can now have a link associated with it that leads to whatever it discusses. this is used as the link for the item in the rss feed and is offered under the item on the news table. secondly, i’ve started linking to specific pages instead of general ones on the frontpage. so, for example, an item about carcassi study 18 links directly to study 18′s page, and an item about my driveway links directly to the page with photos of the driveway. i originally avoided this because i use a table of definitions to make it easy to link to other parts of the site and have all references to that part updated sitewide with a change to one file if the part moves. (yes, i could do this dynamically, but statically-generated pages are my story and i’m sticking to them for now.) so, i would just link to “photos” instead of the specific photos i was talking about, and leave it to people to find their way. i’ve decided to just suck up the eventual broken links and deal with them as the linkchecker finds them. lastly, each item in a news table now has a name anchor attached to it, which means that i can link directly to that item instead of just to the top of the page. you can see this with the ymoyl items, which go straight to the comments to which they refer. i hope you enjoy this. if you use the rss feed, please let me know how it’s working for you.
06/20/2004	new photo though i’ve loved the photo of myself with warren’s cat, it’s four years old, and it’s time for something that looks more like i do now. every few years, my brothers and sisters and i give photos of ourselves to my sister marie, who puts them into a frame to give our parents. glenn and i took some photos today to try to get something usable for the gift. i liked one of them particularly, so it’s now gracing the front page here.
06/01/2004	ymoyl update i’ve finally made an update on my ymoyl page. click here for more…
new in february 2004
02/09/2004	/forsale for a year or more, i’ve kept a list of things i have for sale in /tmp/amazon/. i may as well move them to somewhere more people will find them. click here for more…
new in january 2004
01/02/2004	hi. no changes. i just thought i’d have two announcements in a row for once.
01/01/2004	happy new year! if i made resolutions, perhaps i’d resolve to invest more time here in the coming year. but i doubt you’d believe me. at least the graph has been updated. i hope you’re happy and healthy and on the way to all your goals, as well. click here for more…
new in december 2003
12/02/2003	shed i bought a small shed and a lawn mower. the neighbors rejoiced. photos are up. click here for more…
new in november 2003
11/07/2003	wild goose chase pete and i drove to massachusetts to attend the first sitting at jiro osho’s new zendo. i brought back photos. click here for more…
new in october 2003
10/26/2003	new camera the old agfa finally died. i bought a new camera, and it arrived just in time to take photos of a daytrip to west virginia. click here for more…
new in september 2003
09/22/2003	isabel hurricane isabel blew through lodge road, but knocked all the trees away from the houses. my shed took a hit and was destroyed; photos are up. click here for more…
09/01/2003	ymoyl the graph has been updated with the mortgage-free august totals. click here for more…
new in august 2003
08/07/2003	lilypond 1.8.0 lilypond 1.8.0 has been released! i’ve upgraded and am regenerating all my scores with it. let me know if you see any problems. click here for more…
new in july 2003
07/16/2003	refinanced i took advantage of the great interest rates and refinanced my mortgage. details on the ymoyl page. click here for more…
new in june 2003
06/22/2003	been a bit busy when glenn and i woke at 5:15 on 6/9, he was having trouble walking and moving his left arm. we got to the emergency room before 6:00, and he stayed at the hospital for the next four days. i’ve been staying with him and helping since i brought him home. he had a stroke and still can’t control his arm, but he’s just tired more than anything. that’s where i’ve been. i hope you’ve had less excitement.
new in may 2003
05/30/2003	table! i was driving along yesterday, and saw a patio table with a “free table” sign taped to it. score! there’s a photo of it on my deck somewhere in the photos section. click here for more…
05/19/2003	carcassi 9 done it’s finished, and submitted to mutopia. click here for more…
05/16/2003	carcassi 7 and 9 proofread i’ve made corrections to 7 and 9. once i get an answer on how to fix the double bar problem in number 9, they’ll both be complete and correct. click here for more…
05/13/2003	rialto ripples copyright chris@mutopia looked into rialto ripples and decided that while it’s out of copyright in the u.s., it won’t be out of copyright worldwide until 2007, so he can’t make my arrangement available on his server in the u.k. you’ll just have to get it from here if you want it. click here for more…
05/13/2003	carcassi 18 for no apparent reason, i started on carcassi 18. (p.s.: 14, too.) click here for more…
05/12/2003	carcassi 9 i’m learning more about fine-tuning lilypond’s dynamics and text spanners. i’ve had to ask the list a question about a repeat bar not appearing. once that’s answered, this should be done. click here for more…
05/09/2003	carcassi 9 while i was in a lilypond mood, i finished entering the notes to carcassi study 9. once i add the dynamics, it will be done. click here for more…
05/09/2003	rialto ripples rialto ripples is done. i’ll get it off to mutopia in the morning. click here for more…
05/08/2003	driveway! the driveway was paved a week ago today. i’ve added a photo to the photos of the house. click here for more…
05/06/2003	change in recording mortgage payments i’ve changed the way i record mortgage payments on the ymoyl graph. click here for more…
05/02/2003	ymoyl yes, i’m still working on my finances. i update the ymoyl graph each month, but haven’t taken the time to make comments about it. i’ve just added some commentary about changes in my accounting system, and backdated them to february, when they were made. click here for more…
05/01/2003	carcassi study… 9 well, it turns out the person who requested study 7 (from his edition) meant study 9 in my edition. i’ve started on it. click here for more…
new in april 2003
04/30/2003	carcassi study 7 someone wrote to ask for study 7, so i’ve added it to the scores section. click here for more…
04/17/2003	scores update i upgraded my copy of lilypond, and found several nice new features. i rewrote the makefile for my scores section, and it looks a bit better now, with preview images for each score. click here for more…
new in february 2003
02/26/2003	the big one i’ve put up photos of my experiences with the biggest smowstorm in baltimore’s recorded history. click here for more…
new in january 2003
01/02/2003	baby’s christmas present happy new year! i’m afraid the first post of it won’t be terribly exciting; i’m just reporting that i took photos of baby interacting with her gift. click here for more…
new in december 2002
12/05/2002	smow! the east coast was hit by a storm. i took photos.
new in october 2002
10/10/2002	no time to say anything just now just thought i’d poke my head in and point out how poorly i’ve followed through on the intention i once had of adding to my website every day. it could be worse. i could go to the other extreme, and blog.
new in september 2002
09/19/2002	photos index redone i finally got around to making the photos index more legible.
09/14/2002	photos of okc i didn’t take any photos in okc this year, but nick took a couple hundred. i’ve put the work-safe ones up.
new in august 2002
08/07/2002	financial update a lot has happened in the last few weeks. i just got around to updating my ymoyl page with news about it.
08/01/2002	someone wrote a poem.
new in july 2002
07/03/2002	bellefonte glenn and i spent the weekend running around centre county, pennsylvania. i took photos.
07/01/2002	ymoyl graph updated the graph has been updated.
new in june 2002
06/14/2002	ymoyl investment projection updated i updated my projection of the possible results of my current investment methods, and added some comments on it.
06/06/2002	rialto ripples started i started adding my guitar trio arrangement of gershwin’s “rialto ripples” to the scores section.
06/04/2002	ymoyl graph updated i updated the graph with last month’s values. things are back to normal after tax month.
new in may 2002
05/24/2001	o magnum mysterium done i finished the victoria score. after i clear up a couple of cosmetic touches, i’ll submit it to mutopia.
05/22/2002	air done i finished it. i’ll proofread it and get it off to mutopia.
05/21/2002	more on the air on the g string i haven’t touched this score in ages. it’s almost done. i need to finish it and get it off to mutopia.
05/15/2002	first ymoyl investment i made my first federal note purchase today, and put up a long comment reflecting on it.
05/14/2002	owning wrote a poem today.
05/01/2002	ymoyl graph updated my bank statement came today (!), and i balanced it and updated the graph. what an odd month april is…
new in april 2002
04/24/2002	spring! spring! the azalea bushes are about to fall over from the weight of the flowers. i snapped photos like mad.
04/20/2002	daniel’s farewell party it’s only six months later, but i’ve put up the photos from daniel’s farewell party at simplex.
04/18/2002	spring! spring is exploding around lodge road. i’ve put up some photos.
04/16/2002	ymoyl monthly tabulation for march my monthly tabulation for last month is up.
04/06/2002	books on simplicity i’ve put a list of recommended books in my simplicity section.
04/02/2002	ymoyl graph updated i updated the graph today. more bad expenses this month, but at least the lines crossed again.
new in march 2002
03/14/2002	ymoyl monthly tabulation for february my monthly tabulation for last month is up.
03/04/2002	pricebook i’ve started using a pricebook! you can read all about it here.
new in february 2002
02/16/2002	ymoyl monthly tabulation for january my monthly tabulation for last month is up. things are progressing nicely.
02/12/2002	car! i bought a car. i believe it was a good deal, but i still feel uneasy about plunking down so much money. but it’s beautful. photos are up.
02/12/2002	bach invention 2 guitar duet arrangement a couple of guitarists wrote that they were looking for music, so i adapted an invention for them.
02/05/2002	bach — complete two part inventions i’m working on making a book from the complete mutopia scores.
02/04/2002	moovie reviews started i put up some thoughts about gimme shelter.
02/01/2002	ymoyl graph updated i balanced the checkbook and updated the graph. w00t! the lines crossed!
new in january 2002
01/30/2002	bach invention 12 started made a start on it. whoa! autobeaming is rocks!
01/30/2002	bach invention 9 done finished it and submitted it to mutopia.
01/24/2002	bach invention 9 — notes done notes are done. need to add ornaments, etc.
01/09/2002	bach invention 9 started allen says he’s not going to finish the scores for the two-part inventions. he was just three away from having them all done! i added number six to mutopia the other day, and started on number nine tonight.
01/08/2002	ymoyl monthly tabulation for december my monthly tabulation for last month is up.
01/07/2002	bach invention 6 finished i noticed it was missing from mutopia, so i polished up my score and submitted it.
new in december 2001
12/31/2001	ymoyl december graph the graph has been updated.
12/26/2001	ymoyl monthly tabulation for november woohoo! after years of getting around to it, i did my first monthly tabulation of my expenses and how they fit into my thinking.
12/11/2001	bach french suite arrangement? i’m playing around with the idea.
12/09/2001	rohatsu wrote a poem.
12/04/2001	ymoyl, november edition the bank statement came in the mail today. i balanced it, then did my income/expenses/investment calculations. yuck.
new in november 2001
11/19/2001	your money or your life i’ve put up a graph i’m using to help me think more carefully about my finances.
11/14/2001	backyard photos fall! i took a couple of photos of the backyard.
11/13/2001	o magnum mysterium lyrics yay! lilypond has new features that make entering lyrics amazingly easy. i added some more to the victoria score.
new in october 2001
10/29/2001	back from palm springs i’m back from my trip. put up photos.
10/08/2001	how i’ve been feeling lately Desert Places by Robert Frost Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it — it is theirs. All animals are smothered in their lairs. I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawares. And lonely as it is that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less – A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression, nothing to express. They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars — on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
new in august 2001
08/28/2001	o magnum mysterium — finished the notes you can listen to it all now. on to the text…
08/24/2001	more on o magnum mysterium someone sent an email saying he wants to use the victoria score, so i worked on it some more today. finished the notes up to the first break.
08/23/2001	carcassi #5 notes done as the title says…
08/22/2001	much more legible weight graph well, this is silly. i never noticed that gnuplot can output a png directly, so i don’t have to do the postscript-to-png kludge i’ve been doing. the graph on my weight page is now soooo much clearer.
08/14/2001	more on carcassi #5 added some more notes.
08/11/2001	more on carcassi #5 added a couple more lines to the score.
08/08/2001	guitar waltz score fragment i’m unpacking stuff at the new house, and came across a piece of paper with something i jotted down long ago. nothing special, but i may as well put it into the computer. maybe someday i’ll do something with it.
new in july 2001
07/31/2001	gah! well, i’m living in the new place and liking it. i liked working on the yard for two days, until this happened: “several people have been asking what happened to me, so i typed up this form letter (sorry for the rubber stamp nature of it): my new house has been sitting empty since december, so the yard needs a lot of work done. the friday before last had beautiful weather, so i took advantage of it to get out and make some progress. the next morning, i put in a couple more hours until someone called and invited me down to artscape. i’m highly allergic to poison ivy, so i’m paranoid about it and watch out for it all the time. i spotted a poison ivy plant in the front yard, and gave it a wide berth, so friday went ok. there’s a fence out back that i want to tear down. one side of it is covered with vines, so on saturday morning, i started pulling them off it. there must have been a surprise hiding in there that i didn’t see, because i woke up at 3:00 sunday morning, itching. for the first couple of days, it was all on the place where a man doesn’t ever, ever want to get poison ivy. i’ll leave that to your imagination. as the days went on, the rash started popping up all over the place — legs, arms, chest, face… all over. the worst part was that blisters formed between the fingers of both hands. for the first few days, i tried typing, but had to accept that moving my fingers was causing the blisters to pop open, and making it take even longer to heal, so i switched to catching up on reading and doing things that just involved pointing and clicking. i’m still remarkably miserable and wake up itching 3-4 times a night, so don’t expect a whole lot out of me, but i wanted to let it be known that i’m able to communicate again. ” i’m all better now, with just a few scars, and i’ve been busily trying to catch up on work.
07/10/2001	mmmmmmmm… spent most of yesterday at my new place. so blissfully quiet. the phone service won’t be turned on until thursday, though, so i have to head back into carradioland to get bandwidth.
07/06/2001	carcassi study 4 notes done finished the notes. just need to do dynamics, etc. now.
07/05/2001	back! i’m back. but gah! i’m exhausted. off to bed. talk to you later.
new in june 2001
06/25/2001	sesshin i have to be at doug’s place at 7:15 tomorrow morning to leave for dbz, so i’m going to sign off for now and do the few chores i have left. i’ll be back on july 5th; see you then. p.s.: bought the house today!
06/24/2001	settlement in the morning… leaving for sesshin the next day. checking things off the todo list today.
06/23/2001	photos from last august i just put up photos in the downtown baltimore section from a walk i took last august (yeah, yeah…).
06/22/2001	more on carcassi study 3 almost done with the notes.
06/21/2001	more on carcassi study 3 finished the notes for the 1st half.
06/20/2001	carcassi study 3 started entering the 3rd study. mmmmm… lilypond has some nice features for making it easier to enter things now.
06/19/2001	carcassi study 2 notes done finished the notes. just need to do dynamics, etc. now.
06/18/2001	more on carcassi study 2 a long time ago, i planned to: learn the 25 carcassi studies, op. 60. make lilypond files of them all, so there would be a free copy of them available on the internet. so, i was doing the work slowly, using the second job to help with the first — i would only enter the notes into the computer from memory, to test my memorization, then double-check them against the original. practicing the guitar is no longer part of my life, so i should just moove on with the second part of the plan. i worked on study #2 a bit today.
06/16/2001	more palmos apps i added launcher iii and whatzup, a couple of palmos apps i’ve started using. i’ve actually started putting appointments in my visor. frightening. i wish yahoo!’s palm sync system weren’t useless.
06/14/2001	house house house house house house house contracts, home inspection, mortgage interview, homeowners insurance, job gap letter, termite inspection, bank statements… a week and a half until settlement!
06/08/2001	still around yeah, i’m still here. i had my wisdom teeth extracted tuesday (with only local anesthetic, so i got to lay there and listen to crack crack crack snap crack as they were yanked out of my head), and spent much of the week in a drug-induced stupor. how do people get addicted to vicodin? it just made me go to sleep. i guess if you really like sleeping… anyway, i did at least put up the photos from the umbc lug resurrection meeting.
06/01/2001	burning storefront the zendo where i practice just got its own place. i’ve put up photos chester and i took a few weeks ago when we went to look at the place.
new in may 2001
05/25/2001	another day, another house yep. more photos of the latest house. i also stuck up some of the one i saw on 05/18.
05/24/2001	my favorite palmos applications a friend just bought a visor, and this prompted me to put copies of my favorite palmos applications here.
05/22/2001	another house since westland boulevard fell through, i’m still looking. just put up photos of the latest possibility.
05/20/2001	tired of checks i’m tired of dealing with checks. it takes me forever to get around to driving them to the bank, so i’ve made a link to my paypal account so people can send payments to me over the web. if you owe me money for some reason, please use this.
05/16/2001	mozart k545 yay! someone added it to mutopia, so i’ve deleted my unfinished version from my site.
05/09/2001	house hunting i put up some photos from my recent unsuccessful bit of house hunting (see my rambling from a couple of weeks ago).
05/08/2001	gah i got up at 4:00am yesterday and drove to roblimo’s house on the first leg of a trip to boston for another osdn site directors meeting. was there all day, then flew back and got home at 11:00pm. i don’t know how/why people do this sort of thing on a regular basis. i’ve been standing at the laptop all day trying to catch up and feeling a bit unplugged.
05/01/2001	pdf versions of the scores some time ago, i looked into generating pdf versions of my scores, and wasn’t happy with the results; the pdf version wasn’t nearly as sharp as the postscript version, at least on the screen. i tried again, today, and it looks much better! more importantly still, i printed a pdf of a score, and it looked great, so i’m now including pdf files in the scores section. if you have a pdf viewer set up as a plugin, you’ll be happy to find that you can view the scores right in your browser.
new in april 2001
04/29/2001	a little peace and quiet i’ve been thinking about finding another place to live. i sat down with the laptop today and wrote a little bit about it. well, wrote quite a lot, actually.
04/27/2001	fire! we had a three alarm fire on my street this morning. i took photos.
04/16/2001	simplex redux i took more photos of the simplex kitties, and just got around to putting them up.
04/13/2001	pool number 2 i took some more photos at druid hill park. it seems that old pool has more history than i knew.
04/02/2001	hamfest finished yay! all the junk’s gone. final photos are up.
new in march 2001
03/31/2001	hamfest! i’m spending the weekend at the hamfest selling hardware to raise money for gits. photos of our table are up.
03/29/2001	pac i went over to the progressive action center to talk with the people there about whether they could use some computers from gits. took photos.
03/23/2001	zendo hunt our zen community is looking for a home. i was glancing through a list of places for rent and came across a 5 bedroom, 2 bath house renting for $300. there’s no way i could resist finding out what that was all about, so i went and found it and brought back photos.
03/21/2001	rain, rain, stay stay stay hooray! i stayed in and got quite a lot done today. closer and closer to being caught up with work. still have 142 messages waiting in /var/spool/mail/jeff, but at least that’s 1/2 of what i had a few days ago.
03/20/2001	eastern shore photos i put up the photos i took a couple of weeks ago on maryland’s eastern shore.
03/16/2001	crab canon i added a crab canon by bach to my scores section.
03/15/2001	photos of the 4th of july cookout steve had his photos of the cookout developed, and i’ve put them up here.
03/12/2001	weight yikes! i haven’t even been tracking my weight, let alone adding anything here. well, those of you who watch it religiously will be happy to see a new entry on the chart.
new in february 2001
02/13/2001	cross country i wrote a poem on the plane. been a long time since i did that.
02/12/2001	bah! yes, i’m still around, but too busy to do anything here. leaving to visit a friend in san jose tomorrow; maybe i’ll get something done while i’m there.
02/04/2001	lwce photos i put up my photos from linuxworld expo.
02/03/2001	stop it! stop it now! i have over 800 freshmeat support messages to read about the site upgrade. stop emailing us!
new in january 2001
01/29/2001	off to new york blah! the days have just been a blur. i’m off to new york in a little while. if you’re at linuxworld, stop by the osdn booth and say hi. and watch freshmeat tomorrow.
01/26/2001	where have you been?? how time is flying these days! i’m sorry i’ve not done anything here for two weeks. we’ve been doing a lot of work at the agape house, and i’ve been over there a lot. next week is linuxworld and another osdn site directors meeting, so i’ve been getting ready for that. the biggest news is that freshmeat ][ will be coming out soon! been doing beta testing in the few spare moments... well, anyway; i'll get back to this site when i can.
01/13/2001	inner harbor photos i just put up some photos i took of the inner harbor in august (yeah, i know, i know...).
01/05/2001	dan's photos a roll of film that dan exposed has been laying around for years. i had it developed, and put up the photos.
01/05/2001	invention 6 done finished it.
01/02/2001	more on invention 6 halfway through the second half now.
new in december 2000
12/30/2000	sorry i've been gone again i spent a good chunk of time the last few days rewriting the scripts for another site i run and working on inventorying gits donations.
12/25/2000	mpegs in the scores section i started generating mpegs from the midi files in my scores section, for the benefit of those who have sound cards with lousy midi support. i'll probably keep this up until i want the disk space back.
12/25/2000	more on invention 6 started on the second half.
12/23/2000	invention 6, 1st half done finished the first half of the invention.
12/22/2000	bach invention 6 i started adding invention 6 to my scores.
12/19/2000	comics i'm tired of having to travel to different pages every day, so i put up a comics page.
12/18/2000	flea photos i have mountains of photos sitting around that i haven't put online yet. i just added the ones of last summer's flea infestation.
12/17/2000	at last! at last! everything i wanted to move from my old site to my new one is now here. redirections are in place at the old site. welcome to everyone who's here for the first time.
12/15/2000	pretty much here! almost everything from my old pages is now here. i'll add the few remaining stragglers in a day or two. enjoy.
12/11/2000	simplicity section transfered yay! i got my footnotes code kind of working, and transfered the simplicity section.
12/02/2000	invention done bach's invention number one is done. off to submit it to mutopia...
12/01/2000	more on bach's first invention i added some more notes to bach's invention number one.
new in november 2000
11/28/2000	still... getting closer all the time.
11/27/2000	still... yeah, still moving stuff as i get the chance.
11/24/2000	still... moved my page about a musical scores archive here.
11/17/2000	still... ... yeah, you guessed it. damn work keeps getting in the way of my hobbies.
11/16/2000	still converting stuff added to the ramblings.
11/15/2000	still converting stuff yes, still moving stuff here.
11/09/2000	dan's memorial moved dan's memorial into its new spot.
11/08/2000	still converting stuff spent way too much time today playing with converting my links definitions from htmlpp to wml. not really happy with the result, but there's at least a temporary solution in place that let me move my mris rant into the ramblings section.
11/07/2000	mozart k. 545 if you look in the scores, you'll see that i'm working a bit on a mozart piano sonata.
11/03/2000	dsl fun my dsl went out wednesday, came back on for a couple of hours that night, then went out again. i called the isp, who called the dsl provider, who called the phone company, who got the chickens and candles ready for the ritual. of course, being the phone company, they won't have them ready until monday, when they'll arrive sometime between 8:00am and 5:00pm. (what do people do who have to leave the house to go to work?) in the meantime, dsl goes up and down, and my ability to get on the net is spotty at best.
11/01/2000	toys! i decided to get a new (musical) keyboard (see the misc section of the photos). while i was at it, i needed a new vcr. well, hey -- i've got this 21" monitor now, so why not get a tv card so i can play the vcr on the big screen? well, why not a dvd player?... anyway, i spent a bunch of today putting it all together. i should get back to work sometime...
new in october 2000
10/31/2000	and you thought i was slacking! i've actually been spending way too much time working on my pages instead. i finally got dsl, and have pointed jeffcovey.net at my machine and have been playing with the fact that disk space is no longer much of a limitation. most of the work is in converting my old pages to my new site, though, so don't look for too much that's new. i have added a few notes to some scores, though. watch your head; there's still a lot of contstruction going on around here.
10/14/2000	als final photos of als are up. i just got home -- said nite! to the channel!, and now i'm off to crash.
10/12/2000	als as threatened, i've put up some photos of als.
10/11/2000	in atlanta i'm in atlanta for als. spent all day in an osdn site director's meeting. the show starts tomorrow; maybe i'll remember to take some photos.
10/09/2000	air on the g string i bought a bunch of scores recently, and i just started entering the air from bach's third orchestral suite in mudela.
10/08/2000	photos of my backyard i took some photos from the back window of my house some time ago, never got around to putting them up until now.
10/07/2000	where am i (still!)? so i met this great guy in oklahoma city and i thought things were going well between us. we were both excited about seeing each other after we got back home (me to baltimore, him to philadelphia). but i paid too much attention to him, he felt smothered, and he met someone else. i'm sorry to see him go, but hope they're happy. anyway, i spent some time being rather bummed about that. mainly, though, i've been doing another round of simplifying. while i was on my trip this summer, i took a step back and looked at what i've been doing, and i've had my hand in way too many pots. since i got back, i've been slowly extracting myself from several of them, finding new people to do the jobs and helping them get started. i'm making good progress and starting to feel some weights lifted off my shoulders as a result. it would be nice to get down to just freshmeat gits music throw in a new romance that lasts longer than a week, and that would be plenty to occupy my time.
new in september 2000
09/15/2000	where am i? sorry i've been mia. came home to a bunch of work, fleas, etc. bleh. still playing catch-up.
09/07/2000	final trip photos i'm home; the last of the trip photos are up.
new in august 2000
08/29/2000	yet more photos newport beach, pacific coast hiway, san diego.
08/26/2000	still more photos added photos of my last days in palm springs, my day in newport beach, and my trip down the pacific coast hiway.
08/23/2000	palm springs photos in palm springs now; put up some photos.
08/21/2000	san francisco photos i've put up the photos of my day in san francisco.
08/16/2000	more lwce photos put up more photos.
08/15/2000	lwce photos so i'm on the road in california. the first part of the trip involves booth time at linuxworldexpo in san jose; i've snapped a bunch of photos.
08/10/2000	brahms again i added some more notes to the bass line of the intermezzo.
08/01/2000	simplex photos there's like these three guys, you know? and they've moved into a geek simplex together. and they have kittens. and i have photos.
new in july 2000
07/26/2000	brahms intermezzo someone asked when i was going to start working on the brahms intermezzo again, so i've started. added a few more notes tonight.
07/22/2000	london trio notes done! all the notes are entered! now i just need to look at merging them into one file and proofreading them.
07/20/2000	more druid hill photos took more photos of druid hill park.
07/19/2000	photos of my neighborhood took a walk yesterday morning, and remembered to take the camera along and snap some photos.
07/18/2000	london trio 3 done! finished adding the notes to the last trio. i have to go back and enter an alternate version of the slow movement of the first trio, then they'll all be done.
07/17/2000	tracking the wild housecat one of my cats has been picking a new sleeping place every hour or two. i've taken some photos of her movements.
07/16/2000	cookout photos went to a cookout today, took lots of photos.
07/15/2000	trip to california it looks as though i'm headed on a longish trip next month -- first to san jose, california for linuxworldexpo, then down to los angeles/palm spring to visit friends for two weeks, then several days in oklahoma city before returning home. spent a fair bit of time today making arrangements.
07/14/2000	pager i've added a pager you can use to send me an instant message if the stars are aligned correctly.
07/13/2000	photos of the downtown commercial district went for an eye appointment today, took some photos of a section of downtown that's at the heart of a controversy.
07/12/2000	2nd movement of london trio done i finished adding the notes of the second movement.
07/11/2000	london trio #3 problems making some progress with the short cadenza section of the second movement. i asked the gnu-music mailing list for some more help.
07/09/2000	more on london trio #3 finished the exposition of the third movement.
07/08/2000	more on london trio #3 i did half of the second movement and found i didn't know how to write the cadenza in mudela. waiting to hear from the gnu-music mailing list. in the meantime, got impatient to hear something, and started on the third movement.
07/07/2000	more photos of druid hill park went to druid hill park today. got a sunburn. took photos of the park and the burn.
07/06/2000	london trio 1st movement done the first movement's done.
07/05/2000	agape house donated computers, london trio i took some photos of the stacks of donated computers at the agape house today. also added some more notes to the london trio.
07/02/2000	dalai lama went down to d.c. today to hear the dalai lama speak (sorry i didn't think to take the camera). exposed myself to much more sun than i usually see, and came home exhausted. sorry; not up to adding to the site today.
07/01/2000	more on london trio 3 i added some more notes to the first movement of the 3rd london trio. see the scores section.
new in june 2000
06/30/2000	photos of fort mchenry i went out to fort mchenry today, took some photos.
06/29/2000	photos of keyboard crud i took some photos of crud that came out of my keyboard. aren't you lucky?
06/28/2000	photos of anthony's house i was over at one of the gits kids house's yesterday, and he took some photos for his webpage.
06/27/2000	haydn london trio #3 finished the first section of the first movement.
06/26/2000	haydn london trio #3 added some more notes.
06/25/2000	digital camera spent way too much time tonight scripting my photos section. lots of new photos there, all with annotations.
06/24/2000	mris again just had to pass along something i heard about mris. sooooooooo glad i don't have to have anything to do with that anymore.
06/17/2000	haydn london trio #3 started added a few notes from it.
06/16/2000	haydn london trio #2 midi file fixed hey hey! lilypond can make tempo changes in midi files. i've fixed the file so the last section is allegro.
06/12/2000	quite a day... so... today was the fourth anniversary of dan's death. i went out for my morning walk and was stopped and questioned by two police officers who wanted to know why i was walking in my own neighborhood. i met a guy at gay pride day (two days ago). i thought we hit it off, and i wasn't eager to spend today by myself (see 1.), so i called him at his office to ask if he wanted to get together after work. he shouted that i was bothering him, chewed me out for calling him at work, and slammed the phone down in my ear as i was in mid sentence. so i don't think i'll beat up on myself too much for not adding anything to my webpages today.
06/11/2000	haydn london trio #2 all done, except for a squiggly line.
06/10/2000	haydn london trio #2 added another variation.
06/09/2000	haydn london trio #2 added another variation.
06/08/2000	haydn london trio #2 added another variation.
06/04/2000	digital camera yep; the dreaded day has come. i bought a digital camera. prepare for an onslaught of out-of-focus photos of cats. the first few are in photos; i'll start adding annotations to them when i get a chance.
06/02/2000	simplicity and television i've added a usenet post about my feelings about television.
06/01/2000	haydn london trio #2 finished the first section.
new in may 2000
05/30/2000	haydn london trio #2 started work on it; see the scores section.
05/29/2000	gnupg public key may almost gone! where does the time go? well, anyway... i now have a gnu privacy guard public key. please use this instead of my pgp key.
new in april 2000
04/21/2000	dynamic markings on hollow fields 2 i added the dynamic markings.
04/20/2000	notes finished on hollow fields 2 finished entering the notes.
04/10/2000	still more on hollow fields 2 more notes in the middle voices.
04/07/2000	still more on hollow fields 2 finished the notes of the bass and melody parts.
04/05/2000	still more on hollow fields 2 finished the notes through the first page of the manuscript.
new in march 2000
03/25/2000	more on hollow fields 2 added more notes to hollow fields 2.
03/24/2000	hollow fields 2 started notating hollow fields 2, a piano piece i wrote for a friend of mine.
03/22/2000	more on journey to ixtalpa yep, added more notes. both parts are up to measure 46 now, though they don't have all their notes.
03/20/2000	10 days since my last update? really? well, i have been busy, after all. and yesterday, i did what i usually do when i have too much to do -- i did something completely unnecessary and unrelated to any of it. yesterday, i bought an oak filing cabinet at staples. it came in 89 pieces and a bottle of glue, and i spent the whole afternoon putting it together. i think it's very attractive! it's sitting next to a box full of all the papers that should someday be filed in it.
03/10/2000	more on journey to ixtalpa guess what?
03/09/2000	more on journey to ixtalpa yet more notes.
03/08/2000	more on journey to ixtalpa added some more note to journey to ixtalpa in the scores section.
03/05/2000	london trio 2nd mvmt articulations worked on the the articulations for the second movement.
new in february 2000
02/27/2000	london trio articulations my, how time flies. finished the articulations on the first movement.
02/15/2000	london trio articulations finished the articulations in the development section of the first movement (except for one problem crescendo i've asked the gnu-music-discuss list about).
02/14/2000	london trio articulations finished the articulations in the expo of the first movement.
02/12/2000	more trio stuff played more with my trio fragment, gave it a better stopping place.
02/11/2000	trio stuff started adding slurs, articulations, etc. to the london trio. got to playing with notes, threw in a fragment of an original trio.
02/05/2000	where have you been this time? went to linuxworld conference & expo in new york. hung out in the andover booth, threw lots of foam boomerangs, found out andover's been acquired. did the 5 hour (rob)limo ride home to stay up until midnight clearing out the freshmeat queue. slept on-and-off all day. currently wildly incoherent. off to find food...
new in january 2000
01/30/2000	london trio -- 3rd mvmt. notes done finished adding notes to the third movement.
01/28/2000	london trio -- 2nd mvmt. notes done finished adding notes to the second movement.
01/25/2000	london trio -- 3rd mvmt. started made a start on the 3rd movement.
01/24/2000	london trio -- more on 2nd mvmt. added some more notes to the 2nd movement.
01/23/2000	london trio -- 2nd mvmt. started made a start on the 2nd movement.
01/18/2000	london trio -- 1st mvmt. notes done finished adding the notes for the 1st movement. need to fix clefs and add dynamics, etc.
01/17/2000	more on london trio finished the exposition. [time goes by.] finished the development section. should be doing other things, but this is rather addictive…
01/16/2000	haydn london trio #1 started work on the score to haydn’s first london trio.
01/15/2000	more on ravel string quartet added a (very) few notes to the ravel quartet.
01/14/2000	cleaned up scores i’ve cleaned up the scores a bit, especially the ravel quartet and lagrima (though lagrima still needs some work) and i added a few more notes to the quartet.
01/13/2000	andante largo by sor i’ve updated my score files to the latest version of mudela, and started notating a beautiful andante largo by sor.
01/02/2000	weight graph ready for a new millennium i’ve made my weight script y2k-compliant, and cleaned up the appearance of the output a bit.
01/01/2000	happy new year! i’ve moved all the what’s new listings from last year onto their own page, and cleaned up a little bit of the cruft that’s been laying around here. hope the new year is wonderful for you.
new in december 1999
12/26/1999	converting all your email to text i’ve described how i convert all the mail i receive to text, for anyone who would like to do the same.
12/03/1999	yahoo! bill pay roblimo asked me to write about my yahoo! bill pay experience for slashdot, but then he decided not to use it, so i’ve put it up as rambling.
new in november 1999
11/15/1999	a rambling on death and burial i’ve added a rambling about what’s best to do with our bodies once we’re done with them.
new in october 1999
10/31/1999	yet another otr link just ran across a webring of old time radio pages. btw, it’s halloween. you should be getting out your copy of the war of the worlds and listening, no?
10/30/1999	another otr station on the net someone sent me a link to another old time radio station on the net.
10/23/1999	mutopia! mutopia is now online! it’s a place for people to put public domain scores typeset with lilypond. a few of my scores are there now.
10/17/1999	new poem i added a new poem to the poetry section.
10/09/1999	where have i been?!? away at a convention, traveling to acton, sick with the flu… but the main complication was that my main hard drive failed, so i had to switch over to strictly using the second drive (and decided to give debian a try), restore the backups, find that they weren’t as complete as i’d hoped… (sigh) things are mostly better now.
new in september 1999
09/26/1999	so long away! so what have i been up to all this time? well… i went to oklahoma city for labor day weekend. spent a lot of time with happy couples, was reminded how unhappy i am to no longer be part of a couple, had the worst meltdown since right after dan died. luckily, i met some wonderful friends who helped me through it. have been dealing with the fallout from that ever since. started working on freshmeat, got very busy between that and ldc. watched as my old and long-suffering hard drive finally gave up the ghost. this seemed a good opportunity to try debian. spent a couple of days learning that debian package management with apt is great, but installation and upgrades are a loooooong process…
new in august 1999
08/31/1999	larghetto by sor the bcgs needed another score, so i notated a larghetto by sor.
08/23/1999	more of journey added some more notes to journey to ixtalpa.
08/20/1999	agape house online so what lame excuse do i have now for not updating my pages? it’s a pretty good one, actually: http://agape.qis.net/
08/03/1999	scores reorganized you should actually be able to find your way around the scores now.
08/01/1999	yuppies put up some thoughts about yuppies.
new in july 1999
07/19/1999	thehungersite i’ve made a link on each of my pages to http://www.thehungersite.com/. once a day, you can click on a button there, and a serving of food will be provided to someone who needs it.
07/13/1999	carcassi 2 begun the first half of the score to carcassi etude 2 is up.
07/12/1999	one plate, one fork, one spoon i added an explanation of the phrase “one plate, one fork, one spoon”.
07/10/1999	simplicity i’ve begun a new section on voluntary simplicity.
new in may 1999
05/23/1999	otr update back from http://www.linuxexpo.org/, and ready to rumble… i see that yesterday usa has its own domain now! i’ve updated the link on my old time radio page. be sure to follow the link to yahoo! there as well; they have an otr subcategory called “internet broadcasts” now, which will hopefully be populated with even more good stuff in the future…
05/17/1999	what i’ve been doing… sorry again for the lack of new stuff here… i started a new job for andover.net back in february, and have been devoting a lot of time to it. if you like, you can take a look at the fruits of my many labors at linux.davecentral.com. the majority of the entries in the software database there are mine, so you know whom to blame…
05/01/1999	carcassi study 10 i have the first half of the score of carcassi study number 10 done.
new in april 1999
04/26/1999	photo of my house wow! has it really been a whole month since i did something here? sorry; work’s been really demanding of my time. at any rate, i’ve added a photo of my house for the sake of someone in california who said “what’s that?” when i told him i live in a rowhome.
new in march 1999
03/24/1999	new look yikes! it’s been a loooong time since i did anything here. it’s been for lack of time, not ideas. well, at least i’ve invested part of my spring break time in redoing the look a bit…
new in february 1999
02/18/1999	my schedule online thanks to yahoo!, you can now have a look at my schedule. useful if you’re trying to schedule a meeting with me, or are just inordinately curious.
02/18/1999	musical scores archive plans prompted by discussion of my scores on rmcg, i’ve put up some preliminary discussion about the music archive i’ve been planning for the last few months.
02/13/1999	caged guitar scales book i’ve started working on the booklet i want to write about the caged system of scales and chords on the guitar.
02/09/1999	o magnum mysterium i’ve started entering the score to victoria’s setting of “o magnum mysterium”.
02/09/1999	counterpoint final finished i finished entering the notes to my two-part invention. maybe at some point i’ll get around to inserting the commentary about it.
02/08/1999	counterpoint final i’ve started entering the score of the two-part invention i wrote as the final project of the counterpoint class i took at umbc.
02/07/1999	glass rambling i have a new rambling related to the selling of alcohol in glass containers.
02/03/1999	delays sorry for the delay in adding to the pages. i’ve had continual problems with my legs for the last couple of weeks, and have been limiting the time i spend sitting at the computer. i’ll be opening a new section soon.
new in january 1999
01/16/1999	sor minuet update fixed some note shifting problems in the sor minuet score.
01/11/1999	geekcode update updated my geekcode to match my current circumstances.
01/10/1999	sor minuet score notated the score to a sor minuet.
01/04/1999	journey to ixtalpa continued a friend returned the score to journey to ixtalpa which he had borrowed, so i started fixing some things on it. (i’d been working before from an early draft of it.)
01/03/1999	new what’s new page redid this what’s new page with a table layout. added this what’s new item just so i could say i added something to the site today.
01/02/1999	free websites ramble got back from my vacation tonight and found there had been some problems related to a freshmeat redesign; i wrote a ramble about it.
new in december 1998
12/29/1998	more poems put up a couple more poems.
12/27/1998	graph of my weight i’m going to start weighing myself twice a week and putting up a graph showing how my weight changes over time. i’ve put up some not-very-satisfactory reasons for why i’d bother.
12/22/1998	ravel sonatina score started notating the score to my guitar trio arrangement of the second movement of ravel’s piano sonatina.
12/21/1998	blank manuscript paper made a most important addition to my scores page.
12/17/1998	journey to ixtalpa score started started notating the score to journey to ixtalpa in mudela.
12/14/1998	ravel quartet added a few more measures to the ravel quartet on the scores page.
12/11/1998	html tutorial i gave my html tutorial at umbc again today, and got around to cleaning up the notes for it a bit and putting them online. (removed 10/2004.)
12/03/1998	carulli duet in g notes done finished entering the notes for the carulli.
12/02/1998	carulli duet in g i’ve started notating a short duet by carulli on my scores page.
new in november 1998
11/30/1998	other pages as you may have guessed, lately most of my webwork time has been spent on other people’s pages. if you go to the list of other pages i’ve done, you’ll have a few more have been added recently.
11/29/1998	small, useful linux things i’ve updated my linux pages a bit, starting a section of small, useful linux things.
11/28/1998	lue my linux users group now has its own server, pieced together with hardware donations from the group, for which i’m acting as webmaster. come check it out!
11/02/1998	mris updates i’ve got some updates on the mris situation, if you’ve been following that.
new in earlier
09/21/1998	new message board i now have a new and much improved message board run with wwwthreads. go here and talk it up!
08/04/1998	musical scores! hey, hey! lilypond version 1.0 is out! i’m starting to make scores and put them up here. come check them out.
07/21/1998	opencontent release all the original content of this website, including the music, is now released under the opencontent license. the opl accomplishes the same things as the gpl, but is less tied to software-related language.
07/20/1998	more rpms i finally got around to setting up the ftp site on diligent again, and put some of the rpms i’ve made there. follow the link on the linux page.
05/18/1998	poetry started putting up some of my poetry.
05/18/1998	link to my computer at home made a link to my home computer so you can connect to it if it’s online.
05/01/1998	chord forms chart whoops, forgot to put up the guitar chord forms chart that i did last september. may as well get it up here, since who knows when i’ll get the whole project done?
02/06/1998	new look i’ve redone the whole place with pieter hintjen’s most righteous htmlpp. you can read more about it on the web design page.

site upgrade

Jeff Covey — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:05:36 +0000

as threatened, i’ve begun moving my personal website to wordpress. (and quite liking it!) i was happy to see that wordpress will nicely overlay the existing site, so all the old urls will continue to work while i gradually import pages and set up redirections for them. if you need something that’s not linked here, go to the old site tree, and you can use the previously-existing site from there.

while in the neighborhood, i’ve added a couple of personal items for
friends:

a brief bio page for catching up with many long-lost friends i’ve re-encountered lately.
a summary of the drama that’s unfolded with my family this summer.

i hope you enjoy the new site, and am eager to hear any wordpress tips you care to share!

grandfathering data

Jeff Covey — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0000

as i’ve moved my computing life from a style based around one computer to one driven by online services, i’ve been moving from my own homebrew solutions to reliance on “opa” — other people’s apps. there are several clear advantages:

sites with a narrow specialty make material more discoverable, and thereby more useful to someone trying to find it. people find my photos through the google (why such interest in druid hill park? and fleas?), but are even more likely to come to flickr or picassa looking for images. a link tagged on del.icio.us contributes to a global pool of information on a given topic.
i get the advantage of code from real programmers instead of my own stumbling efforts.
i don’t have to maintain anything.
popular services attract many people with many ideas and needs, leading to features i wouldn’t have thought of or would never have gotten around to implementing. (geotagging photos on flickr, for example.)
it’s far more satisfying to complain about someone else when something breaks.

it hasn’t even meant giving up control. services that want to be used have to allow exportation of data to standard formats, making it easy to switch from one service to another if needed, or to go back to your own creation. i could pretty quickly write a script to make my own links page from my del.icio.us rss backup or generate my own photo gallery from the backup of my flickr photos and their metadata. it’s easy to go back if 1999 ever calls you.

my goal has been to find services which can be automatically backed up by a cron job on my always-on computer (the account at my hosting company). as a result, when i make a spreadsheet on google docs or post a photo to flickr, i know it will soon make its way into ~/backups/ and my own backup system for my files. (do i have to link here again?)

i’ve made a list of tasks, services i use for them, and backup methods for those services. some are personal tasks (tracking todo items), and some are methods of sharing information (videos on youtube). privacy controls allow many to be used for both (a calendar which reminds you of your dentist appointment and helps arrange a meeting with other people). it’s a rather exhaustive list, but i’d welcome your suggestions of other services you use or any answers you have to the questions in the comments.

task	service	backup method	comments
address book management	? (not: plaxo, google contacts)	?	i can’t understand why no one has filled this obvious need. it seems like a natural: make a site where i can record all my contact information (address, phone numbers, etc.) and the same information for people i know. as other people join the site, they can request to connect to me, and i decide how much information to share with them. as i update my phone number, they get a note that it’s been changed in their address books. run it on open standards so it can interoperate with similar sites. let it connect to my email service for “insert joe’s email address in cc:” and to my documents service for “insert joe’s mailing address in this letter”. let me export my address book to various formats and print a copy. plaxo had the right idea, then developed it halfway and made something that doesn’t seem useful in any real way. i don’t know why google still hasn’t done something with their anemic contacts system. why has no one made a reasonable online address book? or is one hiding somewhere?
articles	wordpress?	mysqldump? (i’ve never used wordpress.)	see notes below.
audio cataloging	mp3tunes? what else?	?	mp3tunes is a pretty good idea and a surprisingly good implementation, offering support for mp3, ogg, flac, etc., tools for organizing files by albums, a good browser-based player, and methods for downloading various slices of your collection, syncing them to a digital audio player, etc. if it had anyone but michael robertson behind it, i might be seriously interested. also, its syncing program is gui-only and can’t be run from cron. i’d love to have something like this which lets me organize my collection online, especially if i could share selected files with the world (ones for which i own the copyright). does anyone know of any similar offerings?
book cataloging	librarything	a www::mechanize script to grab /export-csv	a handy way to keep a list of books i want to read.
bookmarking	delicious	wget download of https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all
document editing	google docs	the google docs download python script	painful after vi or emacs, but great for sharing documents, both for viewing and collaboration in editing.
email	gmail	offlineimap	i would prefer one-way syncing, and was using isync (mbsync), but have found that offlineimap runs anywhere, with less fuss. ((btw, a handy tip: i found offlineimap’s two-way syncing helpful in an unexpected way. i have a corporate email address with a certain company and am supposed to read email sent there. unfortunately, they won’t just forward email to my real address because the competition might steal our tps cover sheet design or something. i can’t have gmail fetch it because they only allow imap access, not pop3. i was having getmail fetch and forward mail to my real address, but found another solution in the fact that offlineimap can not only sync an imap account to a local maildir collection, but can also sync two imap accounts to each other. i have the webmail system at the company file everything into a folder named (just as an example) “forcesourge” and have offlineimap sync it with a “forcesourge” label in gmail. this works great because of the way gmail treats labels as imap folders. any new mail at the company is mirrored in my “forcesourge” label collection in gmail, and when i delete a message or remove the label from it there, the message is deleted on the company’s server. a cron job keeps it all together, and i don’t have to bother with checking another mail account.))
financial accounting	mint	download through browser (non-automated)	i just download my transactions file each month after balancing my accounts.
goal tracking	43things	n/a	don’t feel the need for a backup of this.
graphing data	google chart api?	n/a
photo ar chiving	flickr	offlickr	offlickr does a thorough job of grabbing metadata, from comments and dates to sets and collections.
scheduling	google calendar	wget downloads of the .ics files for each of my calendars.
score archiving	mutopia?	a recursive fetch of everything with my name?	it could be convenient to let the good folks at mutopia keep my scores up-to-date with the latest lilypond versions. it could take care off all but the few not worth adding to such a noble project.
todo management	toodledo	wget download of my rss file
video storage	youtube	?	youtube’s a good place for sharing video for quick viewing, but is it a place for storing high-quality video? i assume they throw the original files away once they’ve converted them to .flv. does anyone have a recommendation of a place for storing full-sized videos while sharing small flash versions?

i hope there’s something useful in there.

i want to ask one last bit of advice, concerning my personal website. aside from offering bits of news about what’s happening with me to far-away friends, it’s been a place to stick things i want to keep which may be useful to other people (musical scores, hatt-baby videos, etc.). it’s the public side of my home directory. with the moves described above, a lot of this is no longer necessary. i don’t need photos here and on flickr. i don’t need scores here and on mutopia.

when i strip away everything that can be as well or better-hosted elsewhere, all that’s left are articles like this one, so i’m thinking of turning jeffcovey.net into a hub for my material spread around the web, leaving just the articles here. i’m thinking of wordpress for this. yes? pros/cons? alternatives?

i’d like to start using something new right away and gradually migrate my old material. how would you do this? my first thought is to make a cms-run new.jeffcovey.net so the links to jeffcovey.net continue to work, adding 301 redirects as i move things off jeffcovey.net, and finally resetting dns to point jeffcovey.net to the new site when finished. any better ideas?

thanks for reading! i hope you found something useful in this and are putting the ever-expanding world of online services to much better use than i am.

1997-2000 guestbook entries

Jeff Covey — Tue, 05 Dec 2000 20:14:53 +0000

entries from a guestbook i had on smartnet lo these years ago…

60 users have made comments

name: Orestes Dago
date: 05 Dec 2000
came from: trill.wellsfargo.com
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) via proxy gateway CERN-HTTPD/3.0 libwww/2.17
comments:

Very nice web site set up!

I am mostly interested in classical guitar and
web development.

Have a nice day!

orestesd.

you can email Orestes Dago or visit his/her homepage.

name: David Mackenzie
date: 16 Oct 2000
came from: delphis-group.demon.co.uk
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)
comments:

Big site. Plenty to see.
Are you a fan of "The Prisoner", by chance ?

you can email David
Mackenzie or visit his/her homepage (http://www.tarbrax.freeserve.co.uk/).

name: Logan Nicholson
date: 22 Sep 2000
came from: dialup-229-treats.whitelion.net
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
comments:

        It was called...AFTERWARDS...
I could survive without you
I wouldn't like the sadness
of watching new snow fall
     alone without you
Nor journey to the mountains
     when they call
Unless---and thru it all
     you will never be alone
     as long as memories last
     and raindrops fall.
jln

you can email Logan Nicholson or visit his/her homepage.

name: J.Logan Nicholson
date: 22 Sep 2000
came from: dialup-172-treats.whitelion.net
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
comments:

Jeff: I just finished reading a little of your
relationship with your former partner...I am
still crying...and celebrating...I also lost a
partner some years ago..I also wrote poems about
him and us...and I also still (and always shall)
miss him...Life goes on...so do we...it can be no
other way...and it can be beautiful again...or so
it has become for me...Thank you for sharing.

you can email J.Logan Nicholson or visit his/her homepage.

name: forest stark
date: 01 Jun 2000
came from: proxy-724.public.rwc.webtv.net
using: Mozilla/3.0 WebTV/1.2 (compatible; MSIE 2.0)
comments:

found the disscun groups very interistingit excites my mind to see that someone wants my opion on something other than my thoughts on my job in the sex induresty

you can email forest stark or visit his/her homepage.

name: Lalo de Pilar
date: 12 May 2000
came from: spider-wc072.proxy.aol.com
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Mac_PPC)
comments:

Saludos Jeff!

This is a wonderful website. Thank you for giving
us all the opportunity to visit and sign into your
book. I will visit frequently and tell others
about your site. Gracias! Ciao!

Lalo de Pilar
www.flamencofusion.

you can email Lalo de Pilar or visit his/her homepage.

name: john campea
date: 25 Apr 2000
came from: spider-tf011.proxy.aol.com
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 4.0; Windows 95; DigExt; staff@hsnp.com)
comments:

your tribute to your lover was terrific and very
touching.my emotions run high on meeting you in
person.

you can email john campea or visit his/her homepage.

name: john campea
date: 25 Apr 2000
came from: spider-tf011.proxy.aol.com
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 4.0; Windows 95; DigExt; staff@hsnp.com)
comments:

your tribute to your lover was terrific and very
touching.my enituins run high on meeting you in
person.

you can email john campea or visit his/her homepage.

name: William Ashburn
date: 25 Apr 2000
came from: hyper3-60.wctc.net
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt)
comments:

Very good homepage. I will be back Love Bill

you can email William Ashburn or visit his/her homepage.

name: Charles Shaver
date: 26 Feb 2000
came from: 232-045.iocc.com
using: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; U)
comments:

Jeff I really enjoyed your homepage.
Keep up the good work.
Charles

you can email Charles Shaver or visit his/her homepage.

name: sassy smith
date: 18 Feb 2000
came from: ketsproxyn6.kde.state.ky.us
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.5; Mac_PowerPC)
comments:

Your website is very good and I will be visiting
it alot

you can email sassy smith or visit his/her homepage.

name: br. luke anthony nowicki,bsg
date: 15 Feb 2000
came from: hrbgb105-22.splitrock.net
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt; Freei Client 2.51)
comments:

i enjoyed the website, sorry for your loss...
it must have been very difficult for him in the
roman church. i was also a franciscan,then i
left,i am in the anglican church in a community
for married/single or other relationships. i am
truly happy now. Best to you and prayers also.

you can email br. luke anthony nowicki,bsg or visit his/her homepage.

name: Jim Graham
date: 22 Jan 2000
came from: ppp7.on.bellglobal.com
using: Mozilla/4.05 [en]C-SYMPA (Win95; I)
comments:

Great site, I will be visiting frequently,
                               Jim

you can email Jim Graham or visit
his/her homepage (http://www.mp3.com/jimgraham).

name: Jeff Delinck
date: 06 Jan 2000
came from: uss.com
using: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; U)
comments:

I think you have a great web page. It is full of
useful information.

you can email Jeff Delinck
or visit his/her homepage (http://sites.netscape.net/jadelinck/).

name: Ronald Vazquez
date: 27 Nov 1999
came from: 207-172-150-176.s49.as10.anp.md.dialup.rcn.com
using: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13 i686)
comments:

I have seen your name a lot and I thought I should
visit your web site. I'm thankful of so many Linux
experts like yourself. I always get an expert
answer from the mailing list. Your site is really
good, keep it up.

you can email Ronald Vazquez or visit his/her homepage.

name: RONALD CATALAN
date: 19 Nov 1999
came from: 202.138.137.39
using: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.01; Windows 95)
comments:

WANT TO CHECK NOTES
THANKS

you can email RONALD CATALAN or visit his/her homepage.

name: Hart
date: 09 Nov 1999
came from: port6.ras1.wizwire.com
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
comments:

Dear J.C.,
Good work...& I'd like to get deeper into it.
Listen, meant to post this on the message board
*but* it just wouldn't come up.  Will keep this
short: Interested in your chord forms --
unfortunately postscript is beyond me.  Last time
I recall trying to use it was (god help us) with
the IRS help system. No luck there either. Any
short hints on this &/or getting to your message
board where others might help?
Anyway, thanx 4 your efforts & keep your flag
(whate'er it be) flyin'.
Sincerely,
Hart

you can email Hart or visit his/her homepage.

name: albert narvaez
date: 07 Nov 1999
came from: 196-28-55-127.prtc.net
using: Mozilla/4.06 [en]C-gatewaynet (Win98; I)
comments:

could'nt see it all today, but what i saw was
great. will be visiting again soon.

you can email albert narvaez or visit his/her homepage.

name: Phil
date: 03 Nov 1999
came from: sp2d8.dynamic-dialup.toad.net
using: Mozilla/7.26Platinum (AIX; I; Apple][e)
comments:

Hi, jeff.  I just wanted to see my name up in
lights, as it were.

you can email Phil or visit his/her homepage.

name: Steve Killen
date: 03 Oct 1999
came from: cc389269-a.catv1.md.home.com
using: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i586)
comments:

Was looking for your HS--didn't find it here.
Then I looked at th' CHAT LOG, and saw what you
said.
Kudos to your webpage.

you can email Steve Killen or visit his/her homepage.

name: Rick from Chicago
date: 08 Sep 1999
came from: spider-ta033.proxy.aol.com
using: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 2.1; AOL 3.0; Mac_PPC)
comments:

Jeff
    Thanks for being a good friend.

Rick

you can email Rick from Chicago or visit his/her homepage.

name: Ken McCord
date: 29 Aug 1999
came from: pvl253.jerseycape.net
using: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (Win98; I)
comments:

Jeff,

Just wanted to say 'thanks' for the diald 5-minute
howto.  Until I found it, diald was a four letter
word.

Thanks again,

Ken

you can email Ken McCord or visit his/her

homepage.

name: Dylan Covey
date: 04 Jul 1999
came from: pm-ppp9.triton.net
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)
comments:

!@#$%^&*   ?!?

you can email Dylan Covey or visit his/her homepage.

name: Justin David Covey
date: 04 Jul 1999
came from: pm-ppp9.triton.net
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)
comments:

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you can email Justin David Covey or visit his/her homepage.

name: M.ZOHAIB ALEEM
date: 21 Jun 1999
came from: host-248-195.interpacket.net
using: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (Win95; U)
comments:

YOURS SITE IS VERY VERY EXCELLENT.
I REALLY EPECIATE TO U.
PLEASE CONTACT TO ME SOOON
BYE ZOHAIB

you can email M.ZOHAIB ALEEM or visit his/her homepage.

name: James Wilson
date: 26 Apr 1999
came from: 121.los-angeles-15-20rs.ca.dial-access.att.net
using: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (Win95; I)
comments:

Hi Jeff ,I live in W.Hollywood C.A.
I love making new friends and I am so glad that
the computor industry ,has made it easier for the
computor illiterate(like me) to find those new
friends all over the world.I saw your pics and I
noticed you play the guitar .I am a writer and
singer of R&B. I also write childrens books too.
My time is comeing to be known for all of this ,so
in the time between I work as a hairdresser so I
can feed my two cats ,Puck & Lutin .I am a chubby
guy of 6'2 and I weigh 294lbs and I have very dark
eyes and I have blonde hair ,that I have turned
white(that creative side ya know)Anyway I am
weight and height proportioned and I thought that
I would drop a few lines to you and hope that I
may hear from you .Take care and I just want you
to know that I love the fact that there are more
pages like this one on the net and I am glad to
see that there are men who like us big guys and
are attracted to us and we are to you !
                                   Thanks again
                                      James:

you can email James Wilson or visit his/her homepage.

name: James Zentner
date: 08 Apr 1999
came from: spider-tr052.proxy.aol.com
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 98)
comments:

surprise I found you here.

you can email James Zentner or visit his/her homepage.

name: paul gregory
date: 27 Feb 1999
came from: user-2iveglu.dialup.mindspring.com
using: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (Win95; I)
comments:

a very interesting site. i enjoyed my visit.

you can email paul gregory or visit his/her homepage.

name: Richard Yates
date: 27 Feb 1999
came from: pm3-01-28.sle.du.teleport.com
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95; Snap.home.1)
comments:

The scores pages are a good idea. Worth
supporting. I would be willing to submit scores
of publishing quality. How do I do so? I can
produce TIFF files and maybe EPS files (they do
not always compile correctly from my music
scoring software.)

Richard Yates

you can email Richard Yates or visit his/her homepage.

name: Tim Stevens
date: 05 Feb 1999
came from: morrigan.ili.net
using: Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; U)
comments:

HOWDY MOST HOSTFUL ONE! I just thought I'd stop by
to say keep up the good work. Your site & the
suggestions you offer to those silverfoxes & their
admirers have been helpful to me. I, myself, have
experienced the loss of my lover among many other
loved ones in '96. I'm doing my best to live on
but it does get difficult. At times I fear I'm
trying to replace my lover with a carbon copy. I
do have some friends who are helping me move on
but I have trouble at times letting go of the
past. Well enough of the past, so keep up the good
work for the future!!!

you can email Tim Stevens or visit his/her homepage.

name: Darrell Golliher
date: 14 Jan 1999
came from: ent.coe.uga.edu
using: Mozilla/4.08 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686)
comments:

Just surfed in to grab your html-helper-mode RPM.

Thank's for putting it together..



cheers,

you can email Darrell Golliher or visit his/her homepage.

name: Rex Allen
date: 26 Oct 1998
came from: spider-we054.proxy.aol.com
using: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.02; Update a; AOL 4.0; Windows 95)
comments:

Just found your web site and have not really looked at it
yet. But if it has anything to do with older men I am in the right
place.

you can email Rex Allen or visit his/her homepage.

name: Sandra Seth
date: 08 Sep 1998
came from: 209.47.137.228
using: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.01; Mac_PowerPC)
comments:

My deepest condolences on Dan's passing. What a touching tribute
to a profound and magical friendship. I hope that you have negotiated
the labyrinth of bereavement sucessfully. I found your site browsing
for guitar music and was rewarded with a glimpse of you and your
creativity. Thank you.

you can email Sandra Seth or visit his/her homepage.

name: Simon Gerber
date: 29 Aug 1998
came from: lu-ppp09.tic.ch
using: Mozilla/4.05 [en] (WinNT; I)
comments:

More info in  a Privat E-mail.



Master Z.

you can email Simon Gerber or visit his/her homepage.

name: Thomas Harding
date: 31 Jul 1998
came from: cnet187.bluecrab.org
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
comments:

Hi.again made a mistake the first time I

signguest book my e-mail address is not

thomas@skip.bluecrab.org

you can email Thomas Harding or visit his/her homepage.

name: Thomas Harding
date: 31 Jul 1998
came from: cnet187.bluecrab.org
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
comments:

Nice ,I am 38 yrs. old but love older bears.

Great visit.

you can email Thomas Harding or visit his/her homepage.

name: John Stiers
date: 04 Jul 1998
came from: dasc18-125.flash.net
using: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (Win95; I)
comments:

Hi,jeff.  what a great site!  one to be proud of,

i'm sure.   found your page via pink and grey,

linked to silver fox.

enjoy reading and "learning" re: html.  though,

htmgen32, is "well" beyond me at this point,  I'm

learning fast.  will visit you frequently.

Keep up the great work, we need it.

you can email John Stiers or visit his/her homepage.

name: bob
date: 01 Jul 1998
came from: spider-tm033.proxy.aol.com
using: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 95)
comments:

I ENJOUY LOOKING AT THE INFO. IN YOU WEB PAGE

you can email bob or visit his/her homepage.

name: Mark
date: 11 Jun 1998
came from: ip130.chicago3.il.pub-ip.psi.net
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)
comments:

Nice site. I especially like the page with

performance tips. Very well written.

you can email Mark or visit his/her homepage.

name: Jeff Muscato
date: 02 Jun 1998
came from: p131.como.socket.net
using: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0; Windows 95)
comments:

Cool site!  I gotta go see ya!

you can email Jeff Muscato or visit his/her homepage.

name: ‘Rafael
date: 29 Mar 1998
came from: 200.241.3.131
using: Mozilla/4.01 [en] (Win95; I)
comments:

Nice and clean HP. Simply simple and elegant!

A real worth bookmark

you can email ‘Rafael or visit his/her homepage.

name: Rocco
date: 18 Mar 1998
came from: 1cust118.max48.new-york.ny.ms.uu.net
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; MSN 2.5; MSN 2.5; Windows 95)
comments:

Thanks for responding, altough I still cannot

make sense of it, I remain eternally optimistic

that one day I will graduate from geekdom and be

able to figure out how to gain access. Thanks for

your time and patience.

you can email Rocco or visit his/her homepage.

name: jazz
date: 13 Mar 1998
came from: dialup-vsa000.qnet.fi
using: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (Win95; I)
comments:

DOES IT WORK?

you can email jazz or visit his/her homepage.

name: Ryusho Joaquin Salazar
date: 08 Mar 1998
came from: bay125.codetel.net.do
using: Mozilla/1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit)
comments:

Hi, Jeff!
I always enjoy your web page from the times of the Baltimore Zen
Meditation Society. So sorry it went under! The web page was very
good. I am Director of the Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) Zen
Center. I would be very interested in a good web page. I will be
spending a month soon at the Zen Mountain Monastery at Mt. Tremper,
after I am planning to go ti India and Nepal to visit the Buddhist
sites. Anyway, don't want to make this too long, if you happen to
stray into this area, give us a call (809) 567-8244, we will show you
some nice beaches and also do some sitting. we have are building a
nice mountain retreat site and are planning to offer some "Dharma
vacation" arrangements for those who want to come and practice but
also see a very beatiful country. Take care. We will keep entering
your site and saying hello! Ryusho (Dharma name), I am an ordained lay
monk. Bye.
Ryusho

you can email Ryusho Joaquin Salazar or visit his/her homepage.

name: George James
date: 22 Feb 1998
came from: 207-172-207-174.s47.as7.blb.erols.com
using: Mozilla/3.01C-KIT (Win95; I)
comments:

Hi, Jeff. I must say, I really enjoyed your

homepage. The tribute to Dan was very touching and

admirable. I am so sorry for your loss.

you can email George James or visit his/her homepage.

name: Gary A. marcus
date: 04 Feb 1998
came from: 207-172-128-101.s38.as2.col.erols.com
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95; DH101397)
comments:

Hello Jeff,

I enjoyed your web/home page more than I can

express here. I will also be leaving you a more

personal e=mail message. Here is my continued

support  for your talents and creativity. Just

keep on doing what you are doing, it is

wonderfull.

you can email Gary A. marcus or visit his/her homepage.

name: John N. Stewart
date: 20 Jan 1998
came from: du100-pcap-nca01.wgn.net
using: Mozilla/3.0Gold (Win95; U)
comments:

Thoroughly enjoyed listening to your original

compositions and other works.  I write some myself

and it was very inspirational to hear what you are

doing.   Thanks,  John

you can email John N. Stewart or visit his/her homepage.

name: jiab poti
date: 16 Jan 1998
came from: alpha.egat.or.th
using: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.01; Windows 95)
comments:

Jeff,      It's wonderful to know that i still have somebody to
get to chat with especially from your friendly page. please keep on
your good intention to all of us.

you can email jiab poti or visit his/her homepage.

name: Nils Måbuholt
date: 13 Jan 1998
came from: ti34a03-0025.dialup.online.no
using: Mozilla/3.01Gold (Win95; I)
comments:

You have a very great homepage!



Sorry that your best friend dead.

Also my lover dead. Hope to find a new one very

soon. Also hope that you will find a new one.



Thanks for sharing your homepage with everyone!

you can email Nils Måbuholt or visit his/her homepage.

name: Doug
date: 10 Jan 1998
came from: 195.44.20.124
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
comments:

Wonderful web site. I found it entertaining,

moving and loved the music - you have many

talents, thanks for sharing them with us.



Heard of you - on the sf mailing list - and

thought Id check you out - good luck and peace to

you.

you can email Doug or visit his/her homepage.

name: Gordon
date: 05 Jan 1998
came from: ppp36.intranet.ca
using: Mozilla/3.01Gold (Win95; U)
comments:

Your homepage is DELIGHTFUL in every way. It has

been a pleasure "thumbing" through it.  I have

also bookmarked it.  My sincere though belated

condolescences on the passing of your partner.  I

know you must have loved him very much, and that

you made him a very proud and happy man.  I am a

newcomer to the Silver Fox mailing list.  Gordon

you can email Gordon or visit his/her homepage.

name: John C. Love
date: 04 Jan 1998
came from: ip116.baltimore.md.pub-ip.psi.net
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
comments:

Your memorial to your departed lover is very

touching - he would (and you should) be proud.

The love is obvious.

you can email John C. Love or visit his/her homepage.

name: Athanasio
date: 14 Dec 1997
came from: athe-o02.otenet.gr
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
comments:

  My friend Jeff



Like invited I am very happy and gland where I

passed from your page. I enjoyed really .

In one way we like eachother because :





______________________________________





Be good , and if you can't be good , be careful !



                           With my love

                                      ATHANASIO

you can email Athanasio > or visit his/her homepage.

name: Brave Young
date: 08 Dec 1997
came from: 202.130.253.175
using: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.01; Windows 95)
comments:

I want to see guitar music scores and lectures on my screen!

you can email Brave Young or visit his/her homepage.

name: Wally Lush
date: 07 Dec 1997
came from: ip203-9.cc.interlog.com
using: Mozilla/3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
comments:

You are obviously a kind, gentle and loving

person.  I thoroughly enjoyed going through your

"life".  Pity you're so far away!

you can email Wally Lush or visit his/her homepage.

name: Richard “Dick” C. Lee
date: 29 Nov 1997
came from: 208.144.214.34
using: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
comments:

For the past couple of months I have been trying

to find some information on you and I can't.  I

finally find you on Silver Fox List and the

homepage address that you say is correct - I

can't pull up.  Help me find out about you.  I

like the info on the SilverFox list and your

questions and comments and your humor.  Let me

know how to really get to know you and if

possible see a picture of you.  Looking forward

to your response.  Thank you!



Dick Lee                porker@vgernet.net

you can email Richard “Dick” C. Lee or visit his/her homepage.

name: Gui
date: 07 Nov 1997
came from: pm119-01.dialip.mich.net
using: Mozilla/3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
comments:

I guess you're the guy responsible for the great

Silverfox Archive...  Nicely done.  My condolences

about Dan.   It seemed your love for him speaks

very highly of you.  I never visited an electronic

mausoleum.  It made me weep.  God bless.

you can email Gui or visit his/her homepage.

name: Bill Covey
date: 30 Oct 1997
came from: 1cust76.max14.dallas.tx.ms.uu.net
using: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.01; MSN 2.0; Windows 95)
comments:

I collect information on the Covey name.  I now have about 1000
pages on Excell and will share information.

 bcovey@msn.com

you can email Bill Covey or visit his/her homepage.

name: George Allen
date: 08 Oct 1997
came from: ppp-207-193-16-17.hstntx.swbell.net
using: Mozilla/3.01C-SBXA (Win95; I)
comments:

Hi Jeff, just wanted to see what you look like (very nice) after
seeing so many messages from you on the silverfox mail page. Thanks
for all your comments. I enjoy them very much.

you can email George Allen or visit his/her homepage.

name: Hal Whitmore
date: 07 Oct 1997
came from: slip-129-37-89-86.de.us.ibm.net
using: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0; Update a; Windows 95)
comments:

In response to your invitation, it appears I am the first after
you to sign your guest book. I enjoyed your pages even with the "old"
guest book.

you can email Hal Whitmore or visit his/her homepage.