Hi there.

This site has been around since December 2000. There have been ups and downs, but it’s been nice having a place to write things that feel like they belong to me, not to the place where I write them.

Here, some recent (?) posts:


Downtime

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.

Roland FANTOM-07 Firmware Update

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:

Let's Try Hugo

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?

Marked Safe

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 Got It to Work"

I have a number of stories, anecdotes, sayings, analogies, etc. to which I often return in my work as an IT management person.