Electronics Mod: Ensoniq KS-32

A long, long time ago, I obtained a Midi Workstation, called an Ensoniq KS-32.  I'm still thankful for the great deal I got on it.  I'm also greatful that the guy I bought it from didn't break my leg, since I didn't finish paying that really good price for 3 years.  Despite some harrowing times (orange juice dumped into it), it still functions to this day. One note about the KS-32, is that the settings are stored on-board in RAM, or Random Access Memory....

23 Oct 2014 · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Professional Autobiography

What is a personal blog post if it isn't a snippet of autobiography anyway, right?  I've written about parts of this for my old web site (the one hosted at home).  I'm keeping this professional.  It is likely that I'll post this again at some distant point in the future, but with more detail. For most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator.  This is my story....

21 Jul 2014 · 11 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Team Building Tips for Managers from Agile

I wrote the following, originally, for an ideas post at work.  Then I cleaned it up a little to take out some "my company" specific examples and posted it on Linked-In. Then I remembered that I don't post enough content to my blog anymore, so here's a post with a link to a post. https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701163145-41328787-team-building-tips-for-managers-from-agile?trk=mp-reader-card

3 Jul 2014 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell

I'm in a hotel in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.  I'm in the UK on a four week business trip.  I have exactly one friend in Devon who is not from work, and I had plans to hang out with her, and meet her husband today. I guess I should say that I had one friend in Devon who is not from work. Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....

30 Mar 2014 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink