Tyler Byers was a great guest, and we had a great time doing the show. He had lots of great information and interesting stories related to the growth and challenges of his life.
If you missed the live broadcast, you can download the archived version from www.thesyntheticzenshow.com
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Just click the Downloads link on the left, and then click the "Archived Shows" link.

Unfortunately, it was my first interview, and I did a terrible job on my end from a technical perspective. The microphone volume varied wildly, sometimes too soft other times too loud, but you can hear over 95% of what Tyler had to say. I'm very sorry I did such a poor job with that, and other terrible broadcasting no-no's such as too many aaaahhhs, and ummms, etc. Hopefully with practice I'll get better at that aspect of broadcasting, I usually do fine with my solo shows, this was a new aspect I've not yet developed. But don't let that disuade you from catching the show, Tyler was great!

I just added one of my pieces from one of my albums, for download. Ambient #1 from the Zenthetic album (amalgamation of the words Zen and Synthetic).
Just click the Downloads section on the left hand navigation of the site: http://www.synthzen.com, then go to the Music section, and then the Album: Zenthetic section to download this mp3.
Please feel free to give critique, praise, feedback, what have you, but most of all, enjoy. ;-)

This piece was my first experiment with "ambient" music using computer tools rather than some of my much earlier experiments in the early 90's using analog equipment (Muses of the Early Days album, among others).

I rather enjoy this piece myself, more than a number of my other pieces. ;-)

It's been a long haul, but this site is finally running on a new server setup at a new colo... Also, those who had trouble getting me on my cellphone last year, it's still the same cellphone number you can call me at, that it's been for years. So old friends, give me a call when you can. ;) More informaiton on the server move.....

The facility I was hosting at in San Diego, CA was a full server leased, but only had 512MB ram, and single cpu and wasn't upgradable. Additionally it was only 20GB/mo of traffic for $99/mo USD. I now have the site running on one of the servers i bought off MightyWords.
Dual CPU (ASUS) 866Mhz P3-512KB with 2 GIGABYTES of ram and dual mirrord ultra SCSI hard drives. PLUS I'm getting 100GB/mo of bandwidth for only $49/mo.
Thei backbone doesn't seem as fast as the location at ochosting was, but it's livable.
I bit the bullet and setup on RHEL whereas before I was on RH 7.3 before.
I'm almost done moving the other sites off the old server too, that should be done in another week or two I hope.

I will be moving one of my servers from my house to the collocation facility, to eventually take over for the aged system there.

This means around 1 hour of downtime minimum (drive and setup time). Additionally, the DNS entries will take a while to propagate for some, so

you may not be able to access some of the sites for 12-72 hours depending on your ISP's DNS cache update policies (if you are a Road Runner user, I'm sorry for you,

they can sometimes take a month to update!).

Email, and sites at the colo will not be affected.

Cheers!

-Hawke