Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Upgrading my home

I've updated a tiny bit of my homepage (www.rlopes.net just in case you've forgot the URL). Since I'm migrating the playground stuff to Google code (see my previous post on this blog about it), I had to replace the infobox with something else.

For coherency purposes, this blog's archive is now displayed side by side with the latest entry, whereas the missing infobox is presenting my lattest scrobblings on last.fm, an online music community/social network. Now you can sneak peek over my musical preferences.

I'm also working on a new blog about writing music, that's being hosted also on last.fm. Currently I'm writing a series about the creation of concept albums. Keep reading it at this location.

Now, back to work on this scientific journal article...

Monday, August 27, 2007

Quick update on MashMeUp!

I'm writing this short post to tell you all that I'm currently moving MashMeUp! to be hosted on Google Code.

Therefore, please update your bookmarks to the new location.

All progress on this small project will be updated on its new home's wiki pages.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Art & literature

This is just a short post (almost a la Twitter). I'm back, refueled and ready to jump right into work.

For those who might be interested, I've managed to read David Yallop's In God's Name, José Rodrigues dos Santos' A Fórmula de Deus (a Dan Brown -esque portuguese novel about trying to find a scientific answer about the existance of God), a book about Ireland's history, a geographical encyclopedia volume about the Northern Europe, and a small book about Chopin and his contemporary fellows.

I've also tinkered over my drawing and typographic skills by practicing ambigrams, specially to create the logotype of my prototype band/musical project (more on it on some future post), Winterfall.

Talking about music, yes, I'm still playing the guitar and composing. My stack of guitar riffs and melodies has grown (my latest count is around 70 or 80 of them), where the latest are exploring the difficult art of mastering dissonance on harmonies, melodies, and phrases. Someday I might post something about it.