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Posted in diversions on May 9th, 2008
It isn’t often that I add a new artist to my music collection, but thanks to Ted, and a generous birthday gift, I have not only added Loreena McKennitt to my collection, I’ve discovered a new favorite artist. Her music is hard to describe except to say that it beautifully combines Celtic origins with poetry [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Apr 29th, 2008
In Random Is As Random Does, I talked about how I configured some smart playlists in iTunes to provide a better random sample of the music I most wanted to hear from my MP3 collection. Basically I created smart playlists for the least played tracks, the least recently played tracks, the most played tracks, the [...]
Posted in life on Apr 27th, 2008
In his seminal book, Object-Oriented Technology: A Manager’s Guide, the author, David A. Tayor, describes polymorphism as
Hiding alternative procedures behind a common interface.
The word, polymorphism, is a Greek term meaning “many forms.” A common example of this in the programming world is a routine that calculates state sales tax. The calling process is unaware of [...]
Posted in diversions on Mar 9th, 2008
Having grown up listening to The Beatles I am hugely pleased by the “McCartney reported inks deal with Apple” headline over at Ars Technica. No time frame yet of when the catalog will appear on iTunes, but I would suspect this will make a great “one more thing” bit at this years WWDC.
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 9th, 2008
For the past three days Sibylle has had the good fortune to attend a piano master class at a nearby university. The presenter, head of the Yale Piano department, spent an hour with each student, listening to their piece and then helping them to mold it, or improve it in some way. Some [...]
Posted in diversions, life on Feb 28th, 2006
Ever since being introduced to Evanescence a few weeks ago I have been listening to them pretty much non-stop. All of their lyrics speak to me, but this song in particular has been meaningful.
my immortal
my immortal
i’m so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you [...]
Posted in diversions, life on Dec 14th, 2005
A few weeks after Michele’s death I went to a bar with some people from work to see a fellow work mate and his band play. It was good, and it got me out of the apartment for a few hours at a time when I need diversions. In the days that followed my [...]
Posted in diversions, life on Nov 15th, 2005
In 2002 Peter Gabriel released his latest album, called “UP”. One of the songs on that album had previously been used in the soundtrack for the movie “City of Angels”; a song called “I Grieve”. In an interview I read about the album Pete Gabriel talked about the impact an earlier song (”Don’t Give Up”) [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Apr 2nd, 2004
I recently downloaded iTunes PlayStats. Maybe not the most significant piece of software inhabiting my PowerBook, but fun nonetheless.
Posted in life on Jun 11th, 2001
I have a collection of MP3 music on the PC I use at work. Most days I spend some time under my headphones listening to the music I like.
Only is it really the music I like?
Sometimes I find myself listening to things that I believe I like and I wonder, ‘do I like this because [...]
