{"id":513,"date":"2009-11-01T02:33:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=513"},"modified":"2009-11-01T02:35:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T06:35:29","slug":"no-nano-and-other-stuff-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"No NaNo and other stuff instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess NaNoWriMo<\/a> has officially started!\u00a0 And … I don\u2019t care.\u00a0 I\u2019ve once again changed my mind, and will probably not participate this year.\u00a0 I have a bunch of other stuff I want to do, including finishing my album that I\u2019ve been working on for over a year now.\u00a0 I\u2019m still about 10 minutes of music away from completing the thing.\u00a0 I\u2019m currently working on the last section of an unnamed orchestral piece.\u00a0 I\u2019m orchestrating \/ composing the climax and end, so it\u2019s almost done.\u00a0 Then I have four other pieces started that need finishing, though I don\u2019t believe all of them will make it onto the album.\u00a0 One will probably be called \u201cThe Journey Ahead\u201d and I am fairly sure that it will indeed appear on the album as I think it really fits with the spirit of the other pieces.\u00a0 And one will probably be called \u201cCastle Sky\u201d … that\u2019s my long 15-minute orchestral piece (and still unfinished, but I don\u2019t think it will be much longer).<\/p>\n

Oh, I started a new project, one that I know I\u2019ll finish eventually because it requires hardly any work at all from me.\u00a0 I call it: The Mozart Listening Project<\/a>.\u00a0 The objective: to listen to the complete works of Mozart while following along with the scores.\u00a0 As you can see on the side, I made a page about it.\u00a0 Because it is just so important.\u00a0 I just started working through his symphonies.\u00a0 Got a long way to go.<\/p>\n

\"Android\"<\/a> Lastly, I was chatting on a music forum on Friday, and someone mentioned the new Verizon phone coming out called Droid<\/a>, which will compete with the iPhone (though, of course, that\u2019s some very tough competition).\u00a0 Looking at the Droid rekindled my interest in creating an app.\u00a0 It was something I looked into in college, when Google\u2019s Android OS<\/a> first came out, but somehow lost interest.\u00a0 (And as far as I can tell, one must have a Mac to use the iPhone SDK, so I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be trying to develop for the iPhone anytime soon … though, from a business perspective, that\u2019s currently where most of the phone app market is, methinks.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019m downloading the newest Android SDK and will perhaps try creating something with it.\u00a0 Having long been interested in game development, two things excite me about the phone app market: 1) It\u2019s rather new, and is still at a stage where a single developer can develop a sellable app by himself.\u00a0 In most of the video game industry (except perhaps online Flash games), those days are long gone, never to return.\u00a0 And perhaps one day the phone app industry will be like that too, but it isn\u2019t now.\u00a0 And 2) it can be very lucrative.\u00a0 Actually, I\u2019m not sure how lucrative it is.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard that some iPhone apps are making millions.\u00a0 But that\u2019s only a very select few out of tens of thousands, so I suppose it\u2019s like saying that the music industry can be very lucrative.\u00a0 Well, yes, it can be, but only few a very select few.\u00a0 Still, I\u2019m guessing the phone app industry is more lucrative than the indie artist industry.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s even less lucrative for non-iPhone developers at this time, but who know?\u00a0 With Google\u2019s more open platform, Android or some similar OS might come to dominate the phone industry, just like Windows now dominate Macs, despite Apple\u2019s oh-so-witty ads.\u00a0 In fact, I predict that will<\/em> happen in the next decade or so … Apple may still dominate the iTunes \/ iPod industry, but the iPhone might meet its demise with a collection of other phones that run the same OS and are thus compatible with the same programs…<\/p>\n

And… I guess that\u2019s all I have to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess NaNoWriMo has officially started!\u00a0 And … I don\u2019t care.\u00a0 I\u2019ve once again changed my mind, and will probably not participate this year.\u00a0 I have a bunch of other stuff I want to do, including finishing my album that I\u2019ve been working on for over a year now.\u00a0 I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,87,19,83],"tags":[143,142,30,26,118],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-8h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}