Technology Kills The life and times of Ben McClure

24Apr/090

Portland, the city of weirdness

Well, my girlfriend and I finished our move to , OR. So far we're having a great time in the new house and exploring around the .

Now that I'm back at work again, and actually working from the office, I'm anxious for the weekend to get here. I have a lot of work to finish up.

FOMS (The 3 Mod ) is being rewritten, as I've said, and as a prerequisite I'm working on completing my DOM implementation in . Expect that next week, and hopefully a new FOMS version shortly thereafter.

After that, and several other currently in-development classes, hopefully my heavily-neglected and SteamLab rewrites will be underway.

Look for more news about that soon.

19Apr/080

Finishing up a new song

Finally getting back into the swing of things and reinstalling Audition 3, I've resolved to finish the Faithlessness , and plan to have it ready within the next week or so.

Faithlessness is both my newest and one of my oldest songs. I started it immediately after releasing Killing Nothing several years ago. It went by several names since then... originally titled Broken Machine, it was changed to in Faithlessness about two years ago, and shortened up to just Faithlessness last year.

The base track is the same one I've been working off of from the start. As a result, it will be my most polished work to date; although that's still not very polished as far as how I'd like it to be. I've re-mixed a lot of the tracks to fit better in the song over time, and added and removed several things. The last piece I'm finishing up on are the vocals. Finding just the right vocals to go with the mood and visions I had for the song proved very difficult over time, and the words only recently started coming to me.

It's turning out to be my favorite song yet. Followed closely by Stolen and then Destroy. You can check out all of my released tracks on the Broken site.