2010
Live Recording!
I started to do my Live recording with the instruments / gadgets available at the place. I wanted to help my fellow musicians / sound engineers / hobbyist to learn 2 cents out of my experience on live recording. Intially I thought it was a easy stuff to do a live recording. Later I came to know the problems we should understand before getting on with Live recording.
Tip 1:
Always try to maintain the master level in your recording software / gadget between -6 to -4 db. It always helps us to avoid clipping of audio data. It is very hard to restore a clipped / badly distorted audio data.
In my first Live audio recording with the help of 16 Channel Allen & Heath -> USB Audio interface (MAudio FastTrack pro 4×4), I was able to make a good recording of the Live Worship. There were ofcourse some grey areas where I have missed few things because of clipped data.
So always maintain audio levels at the optimum between (-4 to -6 db).
Tip 2:
Try to use a powered public address system if you feel that there are some ambient noise at outdoors. The sound from the powered public address system would reduce some amount to ambient noise from outside.
This idea I gained when I was recording a live worship. It was raining heavily outside. The recording did not happen in a recording studio, rather it happened in a house. because of the Powered PA system the recording went on fine. Nothing wrong in trying it, if you felt that this tip was useful. leave me a comment.
Tip 3:
If padding option is available in your audio interface. Better use them when you do live recording. It may look like your recording volume seems to be very low. When you normalize the audio data then it would become a clean recording.
Tip 4:
For heavy metal, rock music / aggressive vocals you may consider using a compressor / limiter.
As my knowledge improves I would try and update this post 
Happy live recording!
2010
Blogger: No more FTP support!
Yes, blogger a famous blogging platform is going to stop their FTP Publishing services on March 26, 2010. I was using the FTP solution of Blogger. I was happy using them. Unfortunately this announcement made me feel that I might lose my blogs. I was aware that I would not be able to continue using Blogger as they do not allow subdomains to be added to their custom domain service. I never got down as I had my wordpress handy.
You know what I did? I deleted all my published blogs. Downloaded WordPress and started to install on my subdomain. It took a total of 12 minutes to move all my blogs to my new wordpress layout. Yes, now I am running WordPress 2.9.1 and I am enjoying the same.
I like the new wordpress layout as it is very much sophisticated and easy to install and use. Google Blogspot is coming up with new changes shortly in few months let me wait and see what they have got for me.