Okay, you guys must be wondering what’s going on right now.

The forums have been removed. The bulletin board system is a little too dependant on users thinking of their own topics and on a strong community that I simply don’t have right now. So, relatively soon I will be implementing a comment system using the Facebook Connect feature. But it’s a little more complicated than that…

The issue arises as to how to store the comments. So far the whole site has been using a flat-file system, where everything that is displayed on the pages is stored as an actual file on the server that a script reads and prints. This is very useful for a page like mine that displays mostly static content because it allows caching to be used very effectively by comparing file modified times, which also reduces overhead. Plus, I don’t have to worry about a database server crapping out causing the whole page to stop functioning immediately.

But, now that I wish to add the ability for users (such as you) to comment on news postings I need a way to store various information about your comment, such as, your name, your cute little facebook picture, the date you posted, what news article the comment was for and what you actually said. So, it’s quite a bit of work. Plus, I don’t have a scratch copy of this website to mess with so my changes are live almost immediately so if I break something the site is down for a few minutes.

However, despite all of these possible problems I’m pretty certain I can figure it out. After all, I did manage to create the news system I’m posting with right now in the first place. I only ask that you all remain patient while I am going through with this.

Also, Google Adverts have been added to the page. I’ve tried to keep the ads placed in areas that are relatively out of the way but still eye-catching. It really doesn’t bring in any revenue, it was mostly just to see how I would lay it out in the future, but for now they stay. Don’t worry about it folks, they’re just textual ads.

Also, as a side note, the “Releases” section doesn’t exist anymore because the releases are now available as a part of the main “music” page

I’ve updated the MP3s of the Bipolar CD to the final renders, and uploaded the combined RAR archive to the first server so that all the songs can be downloaded together.

Sorry it took so long!

EDIT: Download link for Server#2 added.

Check it Out!

Check out the music section for the album for 2009. Believe it or not I have been working on it considerably, I’ve just been somewhat lazy when it came to assembling it all. While some polishing has yet to be done I could hardly wait to get the music out there for everyone to see.

My goal for the album “Bipolar” is to have sets of songs that together contrast or complement each other well (hence “Bipolar”). You can tell from the track names the majority of these contradictions. However, not all of the tracks are like this, as the album progresses it seems to descend into darker and darker music. I’m very satisfied with the yield my work has given me recently, with my new songs combining minimalism and catchy melodies and some older style stuff that’s simply straight up dark.

I hope you enjoy the finished product, which will be available soon after I make a few adjustments to make tracks flow into each other better. But in the meantime, MP3s of individual tracks can be downloaded. Enjoy!

To my favorite girl. :)

Aaron Opfer – Jessica

Hey everyone, I know I haven’t updated this place in a while. Don’t worry, I’m still here, I’m just working on the contents of my new album. A lot of those songs you can find on my Newgrounds profile, but not all of them. For those you’ll just have to wait. :D

New song releases will now be posted in the Releases section of this website. Note that some of the older songs are still dated from when the page was still in development. You can go to the section by clicking the link at the top of the page or by clicking here.

You can get there by clicking the link at the top right or by clicking here.

For those of you using standard compliant browsers (rest of you: shame on you!), you will notice that the site looks much nicer now. However IE6 users and below will still see the old layout due to page breaking incompatibilities. Take that as a hint to upgrade your browser.

The music page has undergone a makeover! Yay! Click read more for the specifcs.

First of all, I uploaded all of the MP3s of the “Foot in the Door” album and the “Oldies but Goodies” album in V2 VBR quality. My friend who is hosting this for me tells me the extra bandwidth cost won’t hurt him. I certainly hope so, I wouldn’t want my site to become randomly disconnected at the first surge of traffic. Secondly, in case your browser/media player/whatever can’t stream the MP3s very well, I added a flash player for listening in your browser with. Just click the little speaker next to the song in the list and before you know it you’ll be raving.