Posted in General, Multi-User Dungeons on May 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
If you don’t know what a multi-user dungeon is you may not want to read this post.
First there was Sojourn (also known as TorilMUD), a non-PvP MUD based loosely on the Forgotten Realms. It was created around 1992.
Somewhere between 1994 and 1996, a PvP version of Sojourn split off and called itself Duris. [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, General, Web Design on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Throughout the past six months, especially in March, I’ve been on something of a buying spree for domains. I’ve done quite a lot of brainstorming, and in the process I’ve bought every domain that seemed like a good idea to me. As of this moment I own 47 domains. That’s far too many to develop [...]
Posted in General, Music on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve made use of some more of the samples I’ve been gathering. There’s a great Linux-based drum machine called Hydrogen (it runs on Windows and MacOS too), and I’ve made two drumkits for it. One is based on the Yamaha TG-55 tone generator and the other is based on the Kawai XD-5 drum synthesizer. I’ve [...]
Posted in General, Music on May 16th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve managed to offload almost all of my synthesizers via eBay. Only five remain of the original 20, and one of those will be leaving soon. The keepers: Ensoniq SQ-80, Yamaha TG-33, Yamaha TX81z, and Yamaha TG-77.
The last one to leave is going to be the Alesis Fusion 8HD. It’s very powerful, [...]
Posted in General, Writing/Publishing on May 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
Of the five distributors I’ve contacted I’ve heard back from two. Luckily it’s the most important two: Disticor and Ingram Periodicals.
I’ve just sent off my registration packet along with a check for $250 to Ingram for their registration/listing fee (highway robbery if you ask me, but let’s call it an investment). Disticor doesn’t require any [...]
Posted in Financial on May 1st, 2007 No Comments »
The results for April 2007 are in:
Google Adsense Revenue: $9.01
Software Sales: $45.00 (2 copies of AlgoRhythmia 3)
Magazine Sales: 19 single copies and 3 subscriptions.
Software plus Adsense has generated enough income to cover 4% of my living expenses for the month. Result: failure to survive in April.
Magazine sales have gone toward purchasing new material for future [...]