I will return on this matter on short notice, still deciding what direction to take
nov07

About this all:

Since the beginning of the nineties last century the internet wild weird web system has been expanding both in qualitative and quantitative terms. From what I remember of it browsing the net via obscure programs under DOS (although they were switching to Windows 3 at the time) at a so called computer laboratory behind a black and white VGA CRT it contained lots of text, and arbitrary search utilities to find them, being all text oriented. These computer systems did cost way too much to own one, had this very expensive internet connection, and if I remember correctly were running at 12 MHz speed, but I thought that these kind of machines were fantastic, certainly compared to typewriters with their awful correction methods. Progress!
We have been very much spoiled since then, so it left me to the conclusion that technical advance is nice in utilitary terms (there is an immensely serious ecological payload here, for instance alive and swimming chemical waste in the Arctic Ocean), but that we must not forget that any computer can be useful for suitable tasks. I gather most of you browsing the net out there could live with a Pentium 3 class computer running at 1 GHz max when performing serious tasks on your machines, that is to say when you are capable of naming a few.
I am still very happy with my Pentium II running at 266 MHz. One advantage of this computer is that the internet becomes a much safer browsing place because any malware attempt will induce a major backdrop of this slow systems performance, and system investigation does not require to inspect (and/or lose) hundreds of gigabytes :-)

Using a broadband connection my system speed still masters incoming data, although some jerky animation called Flash looks like a slide show now and then (although not here (takes a while to load... 10 MB to start with), it can be art as well, you know :-), mainly because brutal calculation power may be required, although to my opinion internal programming errors might be part of the problem as well... However, as far as (semi) cd quality sound is concerned (be it within or without Flash presentations) this 1997 dated computer still works fine.
Here we arrive at my main aim in respect to this initial homepage project: Using different Pentiums up to 233 MHz I discovered that the use of open reel tape recorders can indeed be partially replaced by its digitizing counterpart: a sound editing program that utilizes sound card capabilities to the max. This has led to many far off the middle of the main road soundscapes (or whatever you want to call them) that can be stored on hard disks, CDROMs, red book audio CDs, and the internet!
Since many systems have immense calculation power, extremely fast hard disks, broadband internet connections (which more and more seem to become restricted by their networking capacities), and utilize multichannel audio sound cards the idea was born to build an online major cacaphonic concerto by just linking internet pages together in user invoked arbitrary sequences, which only will be limited by both the users neural and system capabilities. For this I build this site, but when this plan will be realized I'm still uncertain of...

january 2006