And We Have A Winner
October 29th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Home |
I won this cool trophy at a Halloween party:
Bird Songs in “Oiseaux Exotiques”
October 28th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books, Music |
Ashgate publishing is releasing a series of single-work musical analyses, and a 2007 volume showed up at the school library recently. It’s an analysis of Olivier Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques, and it’s full of really well-done and well thought-out musical examples. In particular I like the attached CD, which gives sample’s of Messiaen’s source material — […]
Brooklyn Symphony
October 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
Y’all come out and here us today, 3:00 at St. Ann’s Church on Montague Street in fabulous Brooklyn Heights, NY. We’re doing the Rienzi Overture of Wagner, the Mozart Oboe Concerto, and the Second Suite for Orchestra by Tchaikovsky. The brass section is rocking the house on Wagner, so don’t be late.
Lab Tests and Other Nonsense
October 24th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Tech Stuff |
We were talking last night about Energy Star ratings, and how unreliable they are. For example, TVs that are tested and rated when their screens are dimmed so much you can’t see them. Or laptop batteries rated with performance and screen brightness turned down and no one doing anything on them. Or refrigerators that have […]
Locking Down an MT Blog, Revisited
October 22nd, 2009 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
[Updated] The problem with my previous method is, from a maintenance point of view, that someone has to go in and manually (and accurately) modify the .htaccess file every time a user is added. Depending on your traffic level, that could be prohibitive. Here’s a way to have your authentication set up automatically every time you publish your blog.
Blood’s A Rover
October 21st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |
Alright, this whole “trilogy” thing has got to stop. I don’t know who thought of it first, but it seems like everything has to be part of one these days. James Ellroy’s American Tabloid was sui generis, mixing hard-core crime fiction with tabloid sensationalism, heavily laced with famous names, and purporting to reveal the deepest secrets […]
Giants of Jazz 2009
October 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
It would be hard to top last year’s event, so I’m not even going to try and make a comparison. Still it was a fabulous evening, three hours or more of top names, and worth every penny.
Six Reasons Why Movable Type Sucks
October 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
Just off the top of my head, in no particular order, a few random things that are driving me crazy today about this blogging platform. Some of them you’ll need to have the program installed to see. But take my word for it, these are all part of the latest version of the multi-thousand dollar […]
Chilly
October 14th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Home |
The view out my window this morning — frost on the roof!
Throwing Down The Gauntlet At Windows
October 13th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
ZDNet’s Adrian Kinglsley-Huges recommends ditching Windows for all online financial activities, specifically banking at shopping.
Sgt. Pepper Smackdown
October 12th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
How does the newly remastered Sgt. Pepper stand up against the original 1987 CD release?
Better. Much better.
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