I had some free time today.

“Kiddo, I know you like those video game tracks we listen to in the car, I bet I could make one.”

If you have a Roland FANTOM-07, and you’d like to update the firmware (a.k.a. FANTOM-06/07/08 SYSTEM PROGRAM) as documented on the Roland support site, I have one tip that I’d like to share:

What if I could just edit a text file and have it statically rendered into a web page without having to think about it too much?

It occurred to me today that the last thing I wrote here was just before the March 2020 start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and, well, you know.

I have a number of stories, anecdotes, sayings, analogies, etc. to which I often return in my work as an IT management person. This is the way my brain operates, but I think they’re at least usually insightful, or I wouldn’t bother. Sometimes I’m told that they make sense, or even that someone else wants to borrow one for their own use. Perhaps I should label myself a Thought Leader and start charging admission.