Category: News

  • Finishing the Tech Battle and Releasing a New Anthem for Lehi Pioneers

    Finishing the Tech Battle and Releasing a New Anthem for Lehi Pioneers

    As a follow up to last week, the journey of tech hasn’t fully ended. But it is getting very close to being finished…

    While out on vacation in the Northern California area, I didn’t have a lot of downtime while my girlfriend and I were running around to wine tastings and amazing meals. Despite that, I was able to fix some email issues I had.

    The fantastic thing is, my email has never worked this well. Very consistent, and not getting stuck anywhere. Plus substantially better spam removal before it even hits my inbox. Ahhh.

    Websites are working smoothly without choking. Which means I can update the web store. Another ahhh thing, where it’s a sigh of relief.

    There’s a few more websites I have to transfer over, but they’re low hanging fruit. The task at hand is an sftp server so that I can transfer files with co-writers and music supervisors. Once that is done, I’m ready to fully relax and use it to its potential.

    Last week I heard from my girlfriend’s co-workers that they really appreciated the anthem for their school’s team. I was told they thought it was super cool. Apparently there is a plan in place to get it into their games for audio backing. Which is music to my ears.

    This week is the follow up release for Lehi High School with a version of Do You Want to Play for Lehi High’s basketball team. As they say: “Go Pioneers!”

    Stay tuned…

  • Back to the Music: New Anthem Drops After Tech Hurdles Resolved

    Back to the Music: New Anthem Drops After Tech Hurdles Resolved

    Time has arrived. My tech journey with Kubernetes has made it over the hill and is now on the downhill side. Meaning I will get back to spending more time with creating music than sussing out issues with a server.

    Which means if you’re reading this, it’s coming from a Kubernetes cluster.

    The most ridiculous portion wasn’t the web server. It was the email. In today’s world it’s insane to think we can operate without email. Can you? I know I could, but I definitely felt pretty bare after launching the server a few days back.

    Mainly because I got bad information about how to deal with the email after shutting my previous server down. Initially I could only send it. then I could only receive it. Fortunately it’s now able to do both. Whew.

    That took about 2 months longer than anticipated and expected, but it will be well worth it.

    I caught a former guitar student of mine on the radio this morning. An L.A. radio show called Heidi and Frank had him on to talk about his new music and getting a little older. The phrase: “You look like an old Tony Danza.” Was mentioned and I started laughing in the car, as my girlfriend and I were driving to a wine tasting.

    I texted Thomas Nicolas that phrase when the show ended, to tell him I heard the segment. he thought it was funny as well. If you’re not familiar with his band, definitely go check it out.

    As for me this week, it’s another release of Do You Want to Play. This time for the Lehi Pioneers football team. Due to dating my girlfriend the last couple of years, I’ve been to more high school sporting events than I attended when I went to high school. She’s an assistant principal.

    They don’t seem to have a consistent anthem so I decided, why the hell not? Go Pioneers, and start blasting this at your games!

  • Overcoming Tech Hurdles to Deliver the New Birmingham Squadron Theme

    Overcoming Tech Hurdles to Deliver the New Birmingham Squadron Theme

    The end of my Kubernetes nightmare is around the corner. So is another musical release. Lots of little changes finally starting to work and take shape.

    It’s been several months of intense learning as it relates to Kubernetes / Microk8s. In the last several days some obstacles have finally been overcome. I’m hoping to have a solution to my last problem within a few hours. Hopefully not more than 24 of them.

    As much as I like to dick around with tech, this was probably a situation where I bit off a bit more than I could easily chew. Definitely lives up to my adage of “start before you are ready.”

    One thing I learned on the journey is that some AI is great for research. Some can kind of code, but if you don’t keep an eye on it, it will drop the ball in big ways. As long as I make notes along the way of what worked, I’m ok. When I don’t there’s trouble.

    The great thing is, as soon as this solution is given or clarified in a few hours I can start getting back to the real work – RECORDING!

    Like this morning…

    While I’m waiting, I opted to work up another version of Do You Want to Play. The version I worked this morning will make it’s debut in a few weeks.

    Timelines are getting shorter sometimes. Like today’s release. It was recorded months ago. Artwork done, months ago. And now it makes for a sunny debut for the Birmingham Squadron. Very fitting for a cloudless blue sky where I’m at today.

    If you’re a fan of basketball and the G League’s Squadron, then today is your day! Celebrate it loud and proud. I know I will.

    Stay tuned…