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The sunday house cleaning saw my wife working on the kitchen while I was in the roof, re-purposing old and new electronics to create a more permanent home studio. 1 2008 MacPro (now that it is not powerful enough to compute BitCoins anymore) 1 22" Monitor 1 old Ikea Desk 1 Sonos ZP100 with speakers (instead of monitor speakers) 1 Logitech Mouse 1 M-Audio Fast Track 1 Yeti USB Microphone 1 1996 Fender Telecaster 1 Norman B18 1 Ibanez Combo Amp 1 Bose ME-70 1 ADA MP-1 Tube PreAmp (No, I don’t play nowhere near as good as this guy) 1 Roland A300 Pro Reaper DAW u-he Zebra and Diva (love those analogue sounds) ...

As I finished my “formal” education at the University of Liverpool in 2011, the MOOCs started to rise. It started with Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvigs “Introduction to A.I.” and Andrew Ngs “Machine Learning”. Both Sebastian and Andrew have started their own MOOC startups: Udacity and Coursera. Udacity is focused on Computer Science, Math, while Coursera has courses from totally different aspects of learning. I have had wonderful learning experiences with both of them, and I’m really enjoying the Berklee college of music classes I have taken (and where I’ve learnt an enormous lot outside of my “regular” topics) and looking forward to the next one on improvisation. ...

Just a quick shout out to Hibiki-An, a japanese green tea producer, that has a good website, a good selection of great green teas and assorted accessoires and excellent and quick shipping. Alain and I ordered some tea, two Kyusu, matcha bowls last thursday and the nice postman delivered the package yesterday. 5 days for a delivery from Japan is fantastic. Also, with an order value of more than USD 150, the company pays for international express shipping. ...

I’ve got a fever - in the morning, fever all through the night. Time for an early retreat to the bed, and hoping that is over tomorrow…

Finally the “garden working” days have started. As the end of the development and deployment of a major feature of the Mobino backend (alas, totally invisible to the users, but simplifying a lot internally), the tech team spent the afternoon in our garden, fixing a few problems (suddenly, the database changed the way it returned data, leading to much joy because suddenly something that in fact was buggy (but worked) turned out to be just buggy) and enjoying the sun and warmth of a wonderful spring day. ...

Finally the sun has come back into our world - the last few weeks have been way to gray for my taste. As you, gentle regular reader of this blog know, I am enrolled in the “Introduction to Songwriting” course. This is one of the songs I have written as part of this course (and no, there is no recording yet that I am happy with) <code><strong> Gray Days</strong> <strong>Am Em</strong> Around me seas of gray <strong>Am Dm7</strong> am I loosing my will to live? ...