iohelix

i found out a little while ago that there is an open table night at a local club where i live and decided that i need to play my music on a big system again. so i grew me some balls and went down last night. i don’t know why i was so nervous, but there was something about it that made me a little bit apprehensive about going down there.

anyway… i got down there and got my time, which was 11:55-12:40 (45 min).  cool. i got a little time to kill, so i get some drinks and hang out.

my friend started playing just as we got there, so that killed some time, but then more and more dj’s showed up and they were friends of the people who were in charge of this little thing and so they got put on the list and everybody got bumped down to 30 min.  pretty lame, but whatever. so i’m now supposed to play from 11:50-12:20. then some other guy started getting ready at around 11:45 and i was like, wtf? so one of the guys in charge told me that i would be after him at 12:20. not too bad, so i finally get my turn, and up till then, not many people were dancing so i figured i would just play some music and have everybody just sit there and watch me while i spun.

i get myself  one last shot to calm the nerves and head on up and start getting ready.

i throw down my first record and it doesn’t match with the record that’s playing (the guys who was before me), so i pull a quick fade mix and start my set, not the smoothest, but it was my first song, so…
the first song i threw down has a super phatty bass line and dope energy and everybody in the place went crazy !

it was so awesome, it got me totally psyched for my set. i threw down the next song with a pretty clean mix, and it all went uphill from there. i think i was the only dj that night to have that many people dancing. it felt so awesome, and i was on a high from it for the rest of the night. the only bad thing about it was when i tried to mix into a cd the cd player they had was super touchy and very sensitive, so i couldn’t get the beats matched up very good and train wrecked into AND out of the cd, although the song i played was dope as hell.

i found out after my set that the sensitivity of the cd player could have been adjusted, but i’d never played on one before, so i had no idea.  =/  oh, well.

anywho, just wanted to let everybody know that.  =)

i’m finally done with this horrendous semester ! i took my last final on tues night and after the test, the professor took us out for pizza cuz the final went until 10:30p.  10:30p !!

anywho, next semester is my last semester and then i’m graduated with a BS degree. thats right, a BS degree. means i can bullshit for realz, none of this namby pamby high school diploma BS, its a real BS degree from a real school.

anywho… just thought i’d share all of the excitment, and say neener neener to all the folks who stil have finals left to take.

thbtt. =Þ~

i just discovered that, when using a compatible mail client (such as mozilla thunderbird), you can have my blog entries sent right to your inbox without having to check the site every day.

this is also true of any RSS feed.

so, what are you waiting for?  get the latest version of thunderbird and check it out !

there is also, as of the time of this writing, a Release Candidate for the 1.0 version of thunderbird.

you may want to check that out as it has many bug fixes and newer features.

now for the instructions:

to set up thunderbird to read the rss feed, click on Tools -> Account Settings…
then select ‘News & Blogs’ from the menu on the left. this will allow you to click the button labeled ‘Manage Subscriptions…’

click the button labeled ‘Add’, and in the Feed URL: box enter http://www.iohelix.net/wordpress/?feed=rss2http://www.iohelix.net/blog/feed
(this address can also be found on the main page of the blog in the box labeled “META” on the menu side of the page, as well as some other feeds, like the comments)

click ‘OK’, then ‘OK’ again, and ‘OK’ one more time.

after you have returned to the main thunderbird screen, click on ‘Get Mail’ in the upper left hand corner of the screen, and watch in wonderment as the blog posts appear automagically in your inbox.

anytime i make a new post, it will appear there all bolded and highlighted and ready for your reading pleasure.

if you wish to comment on one of my posts, just click on the link provided in the header info of the post and it will sweep you off to internet land where you can view the post on my site and add comments however you see fit.

amazing, isn’t it?

that is all…   for now…

this new blog software has got to be the best thing ever.

it looks pretty cool, the back end is awesome and the best thing is…  automatic comment moderation.
which means, i don’t have to sift through all of the comments any more and search for comment spam. before a comment hits the screen, it’s sent to a queue where it sits waiting for me to delete it before ever appearing on the blog.

nice.

except that i didn’t have any comment spam until i added the link to the old location of the blog…

maybe thats my fault, maybe it was inevitable, either way, i still don’t have to sift through them.

yay  =)