The geekly week so far

I promised chaoswolf that we'd get started with some recording this weekend. Her girlfriend came over yesterday afternoon, last night we went to the Heather Alexander concert in Palo Alto, and this afternoon the Wolf has a Silicon meeting to go to. Maybe this evening.

Just as well -- I still have to drag the recording rig into the bedroom (I'm currently using it in the office as my main PC), make sure recording still works(!), and do some directory setup.

I may not get to actual recording, since chaoswolf also wants to put some of her songs onto her new website and wants to do it using my typesetting and publishing software, which is a little... shall we say arcane? OK, very arcane, since it consists of a mix of LaTeX macros, Perl scripts, and makefiles.

Meanwhile, there's increasing interest in blogging software at work (and at least three other LJ users, four if you count rowanf's temporary replacement in the library). We're going to be dumping our little internal installation of Moveable Type (which is not free and has recently become too expensive for even the limited use we were putting it to), and are now experimenting with WordPress, Blosxom, and even LJ.

At home, I'm trying to decide whether to work Blosxom into my current publishing system, or roll my own vaguely similar system based on make. Probably the latter.

Not recording yet

Well, my config seems to have regressed somewhat since I last had it working; I can no longer get recording to work. My guess is that this is because I switched the numbering of the sounccards around, making the built-in cheapie 0 (the default) and the pro card 1. I originally did it so that I could play music through the built-in; my guess is that older software only knows about soundcard 0. Could have sworn I had audacity working with the new config, though.

I did get DeMuDi (the Debian Music Distribution) installed, but the sound config seems to be even more broken there. I think I have most of the pieces, though.