Entries from March 2003

Did someone just mention All India Radio?That pricked my ears up, especially the bit about their "ambient and atmospheric beats". I'm always on the look out for new sounds to sample into my sets.All India Radio have been around a while, and love their Brian Eno music. You know, you just turn up the volume and turn off the lights and let your imagination (enhanced or otherwise) take control.Take a ... Read full entry

The disassociated studio is currently reverberating to the ambient and atmospheric beats of Melbourne's All India Radio. Anyone who has been reading through my website will know I have a liking for the more laid back electronic music.Of course I like all types of music, but there is something I find appealling with more abstract and moody music, such as this ... Read full entry

It's an oldie, but a goodie: the Bad Times virus "alert"Is it just me, or is that certain Flash websites seem to be transmitters of viruses and worms? Not that I wish to point the finger and name any suspect websites (though I would love to in reality).As if Flash sites weren't bad enough as it is. Why? I'll tell you. As would be quite ... Read full entry

I've been listening to a little of the music of Jan Jelinek recently, courtesy of The Soundlab on Triple J. So how to best describe his music? Laid back ambient beats, with an experimental bent. In short, perfect for a Sunday evening... just the thing to put a lid on the late weekend blues.Triple J played two sets of his music ... Read full entry

HTML (or XHTML) is the most basic building block of the web. At its most basic, it is an incredibly easy mark up language to use, and webpage after webpage bind the web together like glue. HTML executued properly is magic.Yet that is the way it was originally intended to be. Simple to use, to allow for the rapid and easy sharing of information, ... Read full entry

Anyone care to guess when I last changed the light bulb in the hallway of my apartment? It's not as if I expect you to care, but the answer is August 2001.In case you are wondering what sort of train-spotting, shop a docket, stickler for worthless details and useless information I am, let me explain.When I purchased the light bulb (back in August 2001, yes, I did note date of ... Read full entry

Big thanks to Pei at Sidetrack for being one of the first people to link up my site under the new domain of disassociated.com.In addition to the weblog at Sidetrack, Pei has another site called Closure. This is more of an in depth journal, but is only updated from time to time. The site was originally called altered consciousness, and if memory serves ... Read full entry

Who stays up all night playing computer games? Yours truly once used to! SimCity was once my vice. For Windows users here, you may have a game called 3D Pinball: Space Cadet on your hard drive, which shipped with your OS... I have gotten back into my old ways a little lately thanks to this game, but not the all night routine though...As I obviously don't ... Read full entry

I went to a weekend writing workshop a few weeks ago, conducted a by local freelance writer. Since I haven't done a whole lot of web design in recent times, I have been thinking about what to do next in terms of vocation and career.Ideally this "new" direction would involve several of my aptitudes and work preferences. Being creative and able to do my own thing are obviously highly desirable ... Read full entry