Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I’ve always thought that MS Paint (the drawing program included with Windows since the beginning of time) was a fairly lame program. This video certainly changes my mind. It is a video capture of somebody creating an extremely detailed car on MS Paint, and it is really amazing. I hope the [...]

Check out this super-cool video about the development and future of the internet. I really got a kick out of this video–very stylish and original presentation.

Former New World Symphony pianist Josh Nemith left a comment on a recent post of mine about the New World Symphony;s Internet2 projects. I thought that it would be worth highlighting for folks out there interested in this technology:

I just thought I would share something about my Internet2 experience while I was at New [...]

I happened to catch one of the most engaging and fascinating lectures that I have ever heard in my life with blogger, copyright expert, and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and co-author of the great blog Boing-Boing, Cory is to me [...]

I have been playing around with the web service mylot quite a bit recently, and I’ve kind of gotten hooked. There is nothing completely original about this service, but it combines a message board, photo sharing, and social networking site together into a really nice, sleek package. You also get paid a certain [...]

Gmail has now been officially opened to the public worldwide. If you haven’t gotten a Gmail account yet, you should definitely sign up for one. I pay Yahoo! Mail $20 a year for fewer features than Gmail gives you for free. Gmail is now available in the following languages:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, [...]

Here is what I came up for my recent talk on podcasting at DePaul University. Podcasting is a simple concept in some ways, yet I struggle to clearly communicate what it is and how it differs from previous technology. As I did this talk I realized at, while my brain is always spinning [...]

People have been leaving some great leads on open source music notation software. Looking for an open source version of Finale or Sibelius is not as bleak as I thought. I have not had a chance to check out these leads yet, but check out the comments of my recent open source notation [...]

I was recently in a music technology lab at a local university. This lab had fifteen computers with MIDI keyboards and Finale installed. About half of these computers had Sibelius installed as well. At least 75% of these computers were sending back “registration code expired” messages, even though the university technical staff [...]

I have a few minutes to myself here in Memphis tonight, and I’d like to describe a couple of cool new features that Blogger has rolled out. As I mentioned earlier today, I have a new URL for this blog (doublebassblog.com). This is the sort of endeavor that normally produces much angst and [...]