I mistakenly got a laptop (Lenovo X60) that didnt have a trackpad, but had one of those eraserhead pointing devices. At first I was upset, but then I realized how much I found myself despising the trackpad anyway, so I thought I'd give it a shot.. and I think I'm pretty much OK with it now. I must say it is very nice having a fast laptop again. I really love my old Sony TR3AP, but man, that 1ghz P-M was getting weak...

ReaNINJAM in REAPER now supports something new called NINJAM session mode. This lets multiple users to work on projects, and when each person plays their own, they get to hear the other peoples too. This is the perfect sort of things for people who want to collaborate on recording and arrangement remotely. It works amazingly well-- exceeding my expectations by far.

Here's a little session we did early on.

Soo much fun.

It's feeling a little too late 90s.. I keep reading these articles about startups that piss me off.

Now there are some of companies that do interesting things and stuff that impress me. SOME. So this isn't an encompassing generalization, just a large one.

I don't know what my problem with it is.. Maybe because so many companies like to say just how important they are, or will be... Which in some cases is true, or rather WOULD be true _IF_ they succeed.. which is a big if.. But nobody seems to predict that very well, except certain VCs.. but then again when you start looking at those VCs, you start questioning the causality of it.

I think my problem really comes down to the fact that I'm jealous. The people running these companies, for the most part, have something I lack-- they can focus on the thing they're doing, acting as if it is the only thing important to them, and as if it is as important as they tell their investors it is. Oh, and they're willing to have an exit strategy, which I'm very much not..

But at least I think I'm having more fun...