Home made music

by Sander Tams 8. September 2010 22:43

Have I ever told you guys about the music I've made some years ago? Did I have a blog at that time?

Well, it's probably obvious to everyone that I've been letting my blogs wither a bit. Especially this one, but the one at boonbot.com too. Guess I haven't felt much like writing recently. Well, I better not do that for too long periods of time if I want to ever become famous, eh? Anyway, if you feel like listening to some of the stuff that came from my messing around a few years back, here's one that I like: It's not professional in any way obviously, actually I've been taking some piano lessons that I kept dropping out of from boredom as my only musical education. You probably can't even get a year of total practice if you put it all together. Anyway. All I can give you for now is youtube quality:

Drones Advancing - By Sander

Actually I just did this for a short while, making my own music. It was fun. I kind of miss it but I haven't been taking my time and often get caught up with something else before I can get to finish a track when I try to start again. My cousin still does it. He started a little before I began to experiment, using the same software. He has started up a website to host his stuff now. The website is called Puresound.dk. Oh yeah: And he calls himself a variety of names. EventA, Boesgaard, Marindoom. Watch out for those in the future. One of those might be a great name in trance music all of a sudden. Here's a piece of his music that haven't gotten on the website yet:

Infinity - By EventA. You should try and check him out.

Me? I'm doing schoolwork mostly and then playing around with techgame, boonbot.com and ads.zunavi.dk whatever I feel most like doing from day to day. Also I've been wasting away lots of time on Starcraft II and movies and I have really no idea... oh yeah! Reading mathematics. Damn. Well, hope I can soon start being a bit more visible on the internet again. Just for my own sake, hehe. Nah. I can see on my traffic statistics that a few people still seems to be coming back once in a while. Thanks guys.

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Computers | General

I just signed up on Smart.fm

by Sander Tams 25. June 2010 00:37
 Screenshot of my Chinese lesson through iKnow at Smart.fm

I just found out about this website that can help you learn languages amongst other things for free. I'm quite surprised. Before I went to Taiwan, I was surfing around the web, searching for online opportunities to learn Japanese, then Chinese after it was decided I should go to Taiwan. All I found of free stuff was a few articles with useful words that weren't helping much with learning and weren't really newbie friendly. And then there were also some subscription based services with podcasts and stuff that looked more interesting, which I did, however, decide not to try out.

Anyway: Here's an interesting website which is mostly free I guess. (Actually, where do they earn their money? Users donating or affiliated services?)

Regardless of that, you can try it out at Smart.fm. (Here's My Profile, if you wanna socialize.)

I just tried out a Chinese and a French lesson. Maybe I could use this one to keep my Chinese fresh or even avoid failing my French exam next year if I work hard.

Seems one can also study geography and the period table with more and it's free, so if you have time and feel there might be something you'd like to learn using simple computer games, you should try and take a look.

I also just got back from Taiwan. I'm now in Denmark so it's a little late already. Here's my blog on boonbot.com about me going back home.

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General

Do you think that you can love me?

by Sander Tams 12. June 2010 07:23

Got some slightly unexpected responses from two of my friends from posting this video on facebook, so I'll just share it here as well. It's really good.

It's E.D.I.T. by Capsule, one of my new fave Japanese bands. If you liked that music video, here's another great one from the same band:

Anyway. Yesterday I signed up for Plurk. If anyone is familiar with Plurk and has an account there, go ahead and Add me. Or at least just say hi or whatever. If you don't know what plurk is, it's a Taiwan based website a la something in between Twitter and Facebook.

I also wrote more stuff on Boonbot.com. Please check out my:
Post on the products exhibited at Computex 2010.

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Computers | Events | General | Taiwan

Took a great photo this Wednesday

by Sander Tams 28. May 2010 21:06

 Two beautiful Taiwanese students

Those two are my classmates. Also friends of Rachel - the girl who taught me Chinese before I went to Chihlee College. This picture was taken on a trip to Yingge which I have written about on boonbot.com. Link:

Yingge Ceramics Museum

I also made an RSS feed on the page now, so if anyone wants to switch their subscription over there, it should be fine. Of course you can always keep the feed from this blog as you can never know if I will still put some interesting stuff here.

Please enjoy. :)

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Dagligdag | General | Photography | Taiwan

Boonbot.com migration

by Sander Tams 23. May 2010 19:01

I made a new blogpost, but it is on boonbot.com. Click the picture below to go there:
Keelung Peace Island

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I've been getting some work done on boonbot.com and it now links around and allows me to put up blogs and images pretty easily. I also changed the style slightly on the site. I'm still not satisfied: The design is kind of temporary. I've been borrowing a lot of the style but really want to make my own: Most of all for the menu. But the outline should stay somewhat the same, that is: Menu should be in the same place, contain about the same things (and perhaps a little more). Structure of the blogs and photos and info should remain the same, but sometime soon I'm going to change the feel of the site to something more personal. Also, colours need to be used better.

All my blogposts have been put in there already and photos that are included in a blog will link to it. Kind of like trackback of a different kind. It's possible to comment, which should leave out the problem there has been with blogengine that this blog here runs on with the website not accepting comments sometimes. I programmed boonbot myself and it shouldn't have so much stuff to clock up in. If there's a problem anyway, I will be able to fix it with ease as it's my own code.

Be sure to put some comments onto my new site!

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