I currently post musing, reviews, tutorials and other rants about the music software industry over at Virtual Turntable. Some people have told me they find it informing and amusing. Other people are too polite to say anything else about it.

When Creative Commons (the "some rights reserved" folks) decided to go after the remix community I jumped at the chance to help out. They had this idea for a web site where musicians could have 'mixversations' -- a thread conversation of remixes -- starting with a contest using samples from The Beastie Boys, Chuck D, David Byrne, and lots others. I helped them build the site called ccmixter.org and I'm working on the open source version so you can install it on your server soon.

This is a fictional series that (believe it or not) I started writing as part of my MSDN Columns. It was very well received by exactly half of my readership. I continued writing and posting to this site. (You can read the whole thing here.) I used to get fan mail and lots of very nice encouragement from folks who asked me to continue the series, but after five years that finally died down. I haven't read these in a while; I imagine there is plenty of cringe-worthy material there but, like some one said "strangers liked it" so I leave them here.

Six years later and still the only columnist to ever have lifestyle/fiction content in the 1,000,000+ pages of MSDN. I'm told that a search for "suck" in older Visual Studio.NET or an MSDN subscriptions will result in a hit in one of my columns. My monthly column Stone's Way ran for over a year and had quite a following that I carried over to fourstones.net. I then proceeded to squander that good vibe when I stopped posting writings and focused more on music.