Yep that's me on the guitar... the rhythm and the lead. Thanks to modern technology I am able to join one of the greats like Trent Reznor in the recording studio & lay down a few tracks.
Have a listen.
Well kinda, anyway. Actually, thanks to Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails, who in all honest sadness I have never really met, or anyone famous for that matter... unless you can count Nikki Sixx, who I was close enough to spit on at a concert. Heaven knows he kept trying to spit on me and every one else in the first couple of rows, but I digress. Thanks to Trent for making his tracks available in Garageband format & freely down-loadable from his website. I was able to remove a few tracks and lay in a few of my own. Also thanks to Steve Jobs, for never giving up and keeping your employees working those extra hours making "Insanely Great" products like Garageband. With stuff like that, someone with real musical talent could do some really cool stuff.
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Ahhh, it's been a long twisted path, this quest o' mine. It all started with a Palm Pilot (You remember those - don't you?). I figured technology could save us from the dreaded Post-it. But no, it just didn't have the same ease of use as picking up a post-it and moving it from one side of the board to the other, each time the status of a job changed.
From there I just moved onto heavier things. Constantly hanging out at VersionTracker scoping out the latest stuff. I tried everything there; Omni, Todo X, Organized. Nothing ever quite did the trick. I even rushed out to buy the latest Version of OS X for the built in todo lists in iCal & Mail. Steve Jobs couldn't let me down...Still nothing.
From there I progressed onto hosted apps, Remember the Milk, Tada list, BaseCamp & ActiveCollab. Those last two are pretty good at collaborative things, but not so much for all the active jobs that fly across a designers desk in a day. I even ventured into Some PHP Scripts & Filemaker Database programming.
But 2 Days ago was my Lucky Day!