-by Errin Yesterday was an exciting day.  The Glide Ensemble performed at a Barbara Boxer fundraiser at the Fairmont Hotel, and President Obama was the guest speaker.  I sang with the Ensemble and Dan and Betty engineered Glide’s portion of the event, so three of our Media One staff were in attendance. Although the choir

-by Errin Did you know that the media for the feature film Avatar required 52 petabytes of storage space? Me neither. Did you know that there was such a thing as a petabyte until just a second ago? OK, I’ll confess.  I’d never heard about petabytes myself until I sat in on the Archive panel

-by Dark Star Dan One of the most important things I have learned about live sound in my career is that good sound requires cooperation.  My greatest dissatisfaction as a live sound engineer is the issue of band members playing their instruments too loudly.  Amps that are turned up too high, stage monitors that are