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Tuesday, 7 December 2004
Ticketmaster ::
Last night a friend bought tickets to see the Nutcracker next weekend in San Jose. In the process, she created an account. After completing the transaction, she looked at the account. When she looked at the account, it had a transaction from April, a sale to someone in New Jersey. The previous sale’s credit card number was saved with the account, as well as hers. Fortunately only the trailing digits were visible, not the whole credit card number. The worst that could have happened is that she could have used the other person’s credit card to buy tickets for herself. ...
Rework ::
In October and November I reworked 4 of my tracks in progress. One needs the drums redone (again) and I’m aiming to let someone else bring a fresh approach to it. There’s another track I spent a lot of time on between starting it in January and finishing composing it in March. I had been procrastinating on working it; it took so long to compose and is still far from finished. The basic track, which is near-constant 16th-notes in ever-shifting meters, is simultaneously a flawed foundation and much of the soul of the piece. What to do? ...