If you're at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco this week, track me down and I'll give you a free CD of my album Geometric Visions: The Rough Draft. Autographed!

It has the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license

While quantities are limited, I don't want to bring any back home with me for want of takers.

If you can't make it to the conference, send your snail mail address to support@oggfrog.com and I'll be happy to mail you one. I'll send it anywhere in the world that the US hasn't embargoed.

If you want to arrange to meet up at the conference, email me at mdcrawford at gmail dot com. (It's hard to check my Ogg Frog mail when I'm away from my own computer.)

I expect I'll be wearing my Tilley Hat, but I have since grown a goatee (no moustache though; it's my experimentation with hipness.):

Come hear me play piano!

Next Show: Thursday, February 28, 7:00 PM

Open Mic
Bare Foot Coffee Roasters
5237 Stevens Creek Blvd
Santa Clara, California

Map

- Take the Lawrence Expressway / Stevens Creek Exit from Highway 280

Admission Free - All Ages.

Free compact disc to be given to all attendees.

I expect to play there most Thursdays from now on, and will soon start playing more widely around the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in Santa Cruz.

Can't make it? Watch my live performance schedule for future show dates.

I'm gonna be up late burning cds tonight. I left the last batch with Bonita to give out at her school.

I've been practicing every day, and will have a new song to play. I'm also learning another new one that I should be able to play in a week or two.

I have a couple friends up in Berkeley, so I'll be looking for an open mic up there so they can come hear me play.

My appearance that I announced in my previous diary has been rescheduled from Wednesday to Thursday, January 31st. I found this out by visiting the venue - their website still has the incorrect date.

(I updated my previous diary to have the correct date.)

I expect to play Open Mics about once a week from now on, and will occassionally travel to other cities to play them. Keep up-to-date on my appearances by watching my live performance schedule.

All of my music is Creative Commons-licensed. You can download it here. Sheet music too, if you play piano.

I'm about to start playing Open Mics again after a long hiatus. Also starting in late February I'm going to start playing on the street - I got a battery powered amp for my keyboard.

I'll be announcing all my shows on my live performance schedule. My first appearance will be:

Open Mic - Thursday, January 31, 7:00 PM - Note The New Schedule!

Bare Foot Coffee Roasters
5237 Stevens Creek Blvd
Santa Clara, California

Map - Take the Lawrence Expressway / Stevens Creek Exit from Highway 280

Admission Free - All Ages.

Everyone who attends will be given a free copy of my CD Geometric Visions: The Rough Draft - it is Creative Commons licensed:

See you there!

I was in Sunnyvale, near the "Blue Cube" at the south end of Moffett Field when the quake struck. I was on the second floor of a large office building, talking to my wife on the phone, who is back in Nova Scotia.

Suddenly I started shouting, and she said "What, What?" and I said "Earthquake! I better get out of the building!"

Oddly, I was the only one who evacuated. But I remembered the October '89 Loma Prieta quake very well, as I lived in Santa Cruz at the time, and there were many aftershocks. I was concerned an even bigger shock might hit.

When I got outside, my cell phone wouldn't work, so I had to call my wife collect from a payphone to tell her I was OK.