Diego came home from school yesterday and insisted we could start a band and play guitar. He has been somewhat intrigued with music since we saw Jack Black’s movie (Tenacious D in \’The Pick of Destiny\’). As for me I picked up Camille (a black Fender Squier that I bought in college) and started jamming a few power chords. The guitar needs some fixing, but it’s custom Carvin pickups still sound great after all these years. Both kids have been showing an interest since I started strumming every now and then. In fact, I ordered a new Valve combo amp and it should be getting here today, so it will be interesting to see how good Camille sounds on a moderately good amp. My new guitar is still backordered and won’t be arriving any time soon. It’s going to be a Gibson Les Paul Studio, the same one from my wishlist actually. I’m pretty stoked about it.

The whole guitar thing has made me feel a little rebellious at times. I haven’t really listened to music in a long time, and I think it is about time I make more accommodations in my life to enjoy music, and I’m not just talking about buying an iPod, but really record some notes and create something. The artist in me isn’t dead yet. Life can’t be about computers and politics, it has to be about something better than ourselves.

On another sidenote, I’d like to welcome Kevin, who posted his first web blog post here on Olaguez.net. Kevin is a good friend and I look forward to reading his take on things. Until next time, Keep On Rocking In The U.S.A.

I finished setting up the new Links Assistant page. After a couple of years the original program I had was not really functioning well, and I must admit I hardly ever updated the links in the last six months, so I thought it was time for a change. The new Links Assistant is powered by PHP Link Directory. Overall it works a lot better than the old script, but like any other links script, it has its own particular quirks.

Feel free to submit your own links, but note I will not publish all links. I mostly use Links Assistant as a backup repository of sites I need to reference only once and a while.

I put together a new theme design for Olaguez.net. It’s black and white, and totally based off of one of Apple’s hardware pages. Over the coming days, I start digging more into the CSS and change some font styles, but overall the graphics are done.

There really are not much in the way of WordPress 2.0 themes and the new Kubrick2 is still a work in progress.

I decided to just restart the site for 2006 and give it a new look.  The previous content is now gone and I will be working on getting things updated this weekend.