While reading a story about slow-tech (via Chris Aldrich), I came across several other interesting articles on alternative Internet solutions:
The choir at my church, Resurrection Catholic Parish in Tualatin, Oregon, sang last week at The Festival of Lights in Portland, Oregon, hosted at The Grotto, a religious community and gardens. We performed a half hour of sacred vocal music at the Grotto Chapel, and it was a wonderful performance!
During the Festival of Lights, the grounds of the Grotto are filled with Christmas lights:
Finally, the choir my wife and I sing in performed at the 5pm Mass on Christmas eve. It is a contemporary group, and I made a recording of one of the prelude songs (What Child is This) performed in a jazz style by a quartet. Enjoy!
Looks like bad inputs to the software were a factor in this accident.
Yesterday, I listened to a terrific episode of Radio Open Source, Christopher Lydon’s wide-ranging podcast, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. The show focused on his popular musical, West Side Story. I have played several arrangements of West Side Story and other Bernstein works in concert band and marching band, and they have been some of my favortite band pieces. The conversation between Lydon and Nigel Simeone is a fascinating analysis of many of the songs in the show and looking at the influences of classical, jazz, and Latin music on Bernstein’s creative process. Check it out!
An interesting history of an early Pascal development environment. Turbo Pascal was also an early success for PC software development.
Frank McPherson has created a wiki page on his usage of RSS, which includes River5. One aspect of using River5 is that the default setup is to have subscription lists within the folder where the app resides. On Frank’s wiki page, he gives a tip on how to use an OPML file to refer to another OPML file on a server to update the subscription list. Neat!
Great article by Glenn Fleishman – the impact of corporations on copyright law has been quite significant, too bad that Lawrence Lessig’s work on copyright law was not successful in stemming the tide..
I did not know that the University of Texas was involved in this.
