Song: Help me blues

May end up on my future bandcamp collection, "Keeping On."

Song: Ukes in Fall

Should be on a future bandcamp collection called, "Keeping On"

Song: Gadfly

Latest, should be on my next bandcamp collection of mostly instrumental music.

Song: Leave the USA

This is another one that should be on my next bandcamp compilation. Yet again, should have called it "even more sloppy bass."

Song: Like Andy Iona

From a few years back, this is an alternate version. Here is the link.

song: been such a fool

Like a simple blues, which will also be on the next bandcamp compilation I put out soon. Here.

Song: Trouble outside my Door

After numerous alterations, I eventually decided on the version right off of the Tascam recording device.

Song: Accident and Happenstance

The first from my newest bandcamp album, Accident and Happenstance.

Accident and happenstance artwork

Artwork for an album that will be put on bandcamp

Song: Not getting Anywhere anyway

From my bandcamp album, Propagandistic Media, this is the song called, "Not Getting Anywhere Anyway."

song: propagandistic media

Since this is the blog that I have tended to post this format and type of audio, I'll post this one here now. This is actually an older song that I realized never got recorded. So, since I still remembered how to play it, I made a version of it using nylon string guitar and vocals.

The Meaning of Google Search Console

Oddly, I am nerdy enough to look at my sites with Google Search Console tool. Maybe, that isn't so odd. Still, it is a mystery how the Google indexes, and decides the fate of each blog or site. Crawl errors? Really? And why does one site get indexed far more than another? Mysterious.

So far, for some reason beyond my understanding, this blog is doing well in the all-mighty Google Console tool. Yet, others don't. Hmm....

Even if I could comprehend how to fix crawl errors (and other such problems Console has informed me of), I don't know if I would want to spend the time struggling with it. It seems a great effort to fix a few errors. Oh well, continue on I guess.

Test of IA book embed

This is mainly a test of writing my own embed code (rather than iframe) to embed a digital book from Internet Archive. Hope it works. From the preview, it doesn't seem to work the way I imagined.

test of bluefish editor

This is just a test of using "BlueFish" editor for html and transfer to blog or site.

Here is some more text in a paragraph tag

This audio is wav format, and might not play in all players

ok

Html5 Video and Audio attempts so far

So far, I've managed (as far as I can tell) to get both html5 simple audio and video player working for Chrome, Firefox (at least with the html5 extension), and Opera. The audio seems to play in some tablets and phones, but perhaps not others. The video will not work on a tablet or phone. Nothing works on Internet Explorer thus far.

I believe, especially in the case of IE, it is a matter of finding sort of the right codec, like maybe mp3/mp4 rather than anything else. I will be testing that theory within the next few days. And if I am wrong, I guess it is back to figuring out the problem with IE. But I'm pretty sure it is the file type.

Either way, even if only for Firefox, Chrome, and Opera users - I would like to get most of my audio and video creations up on this blog using this method. If only for the fun of it. I also have some ideas about using html5 for other things, but I'm far from being able to accomplish any of these more complex projects yet. Hopefully, I will at least be moving forward from here. See previous posts for what I've been able to accomplish so far. It isn't much, but I humbly submit my very simple attempts for those who may have an interest.

Just updating

Still wrapped up in many projects related to writing and not. There is much to ponder as to the value of blogs, but for now, will continue on...If and when a "micro-story" comes to me through the ether, I'll post it here.

Some Times Thoreau's Words

I think of what Thoreau said about simplifying. Too many platforms, and then one tends to get too caught up in technical details, and never may get to the thing that mattered - which was the various attempts at art. No decisions have been made, other than the next novella has to be finished. It actually is finished, but all in cursive on loose leaf paper. I did have another micro story written in that way, but somehow it never got put up on this blog.

There may come a point where I have to organize my scribbling and music better under one roof, but for now, I'm leaving things as they are. This blog is still out here, and the idea, of course, is to keep updating with new material - lest it become a void of some sort (or perhaps worse). I intend to do this. I intend to do that. I flutter about. I don't believe in Astrology, but when I finally read about my sign, the Gemini, I even agreed with bad things they were saying about me.

I've spoken about time and the lack of it before. That still seems to be the case. But, in between the rest of it, I might look around for that micro-story that never made it to here. Or, it is possible that I could write something else.

Incidentally, I've now become aware of the idea of speech recognition voice to text programs. It still doesn't quite work well enough to replace a keyboard. Then, I thought, how backwards it seems to still be typing away in this day and age. We all should have microphones that take dictation while we continue on with our stories. It can almost work, if you do a little at a time, and aren't copying from an old fashioned pen and ink text you've just scribbled out to use as the framework for your story.

I seem to remember, but could be mistaken, that Henry James, in his later years dictated some of his stories. Of course, that wouldn't be quite the same as speaking directly into a computer.