I’m over halfway through the second of the two German books that have both audio and Braille. They have been rather disappointing, in that they’re riddled with errors, at least in the first book, in the Braille edition. I even saw a patch of text that was so garbled I didn’t know how to fix.… Continue reading Errors and Defects
Author: thespyde
Skype, a Partial Goodbye
Today I had to make a decision that I thought I’d never have to make. When I opened Skype on my computer, I suddenly saw this crazy news window. At first I couldn’t get Skype to close, nor could I get rid of the news window. When I finally got Skype to close I brought… Continue reading Skype, a Partial Goodbye
My Thoughts and Reflections on the Victor Reader Stream 3
I’ve been using this piece of gear for a good while. I’ve been holding off on writing about it, hoping they’d make it more stable, but since that isn’t forthcoming, here are some thoughts and such. I remember some quirks in the Victor Reader Stream 2nd generation, but the 3 has really outdone the 2… Continue reading My Thoughts and Reflections on the Victor Reader Stream 3
Audacity and Audio.com
I had been seeing, in the help menu of Audacity, something about linking Audio.com account, and wondering how big a deal it would be to do so. Yesterday, I found out, and at the moment, it isn’t for the faint-hearted. I looked around on Audio.com’s website on how to get a token to put in… Continue reading Audacity and Audio.com
A New Game, for Me
Monday morning I was on Facebook and saw a post about a game called Zanagrams. It isn’t an anagram game as the title suggests, as I was hoping, but I do like it anyway. It is played on iPhone and iPad, and the guy who developed it served in the Marines, and tried to kill… Continue reading A New Game, for Me
Reflections on the Spam of Life
Hi, gentle reader and follower of my blog. To show you how active my life is at the moment, I’m going to reflect on spam. Oh, spam, you used to show up in email and be quite interesting. I got some from the FBI, supposedly, except the English language wasn’t the native tongue of the… Continue reading Reflections on the Spam of Life
The Star of the Show
My wife Eva composed a song. She has made other melodies but this one was the first she came up with that has lyrics. Today I put the vocal in the mix. I did the backing track on the DGX-670. She isn’t a professional singer, and I made some mistakes, mainly in the drum track,… Continue reading The Star of the Show
Why Do I Do It?
Today, while I was updating Reaper to its latest version, I pondered in my mind, why do I do it? Why keep updating software I’ll never be able to use anywhere proficiently? At one point I was following someone on Twitter, now X, who said he could teach me some things, but that never came… Continue reading Why Do I Do It?
My First Attempt on the Yamaha DGX-670
Yesterday I decided to dive into doing a song. The recording process went very well but when I tried to save it I found I couldn’t do it without sighted help, so wife Eva’s assistant Pekka helped me. The song wound up in the internal user drive on the keyboard, rather than on my USB… Continue reading My First Attempt on the Yamaha DGX-670
An Exciting, New Aventure in Music for Me
A couple days ago I made a deal with a friend of wife Eva, selling my Yamaha P-115 to her for 300 Euros. Her husband came yesterday evening, paid me for it and took it and its wooden stand with him. I don’t think his wife was with him. The evening I made the deal,… Continue reading An Exciting, New Aventure in Music for Me