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Rest in Peace, Maestro.
When I was in college, I was a member of the Rutgers Oratorio Choir. I'd been in a choir for as long as I could remember, though I think the formal concerts/choirs started in about 3rd grade. Bergenfield had an excellent music program and they got you signing and playing instruments on the early side. When I went off to college, choir was the ( Read more... ) -
Surviving....
Happy New Years to all you of the paganic persuasion. (That might not actually be a word. Um. Yeah ( Read more... ) -
The danger of over fiddling with a story.
A long time ago, in a university not so far away, I wrote a paper on the works of one Mr. George Lucas. That paper has since vanished into, well, wherever it is that college essays go to die. The essay graveyard or some such. In any case, I had discussed some of the particulars of this essay I had written some time ago with some folks at VP, and ( Read more... ) -
A Return to the Ordinary World (with, perhaps, some elixir)
So I am home from the wonderous experience that is Viable Paradise. As they say: to those that have not experienced it, no words will convey, and to those that have, no words are necessary. For any such intense experiences, that is a true encapsulation of how we, as people, process them. How then can I convey, dear readers, what it is like?
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Bags are packed, I'm ready to go....well, mostly ready anyway.
I'm up, the boys are fed, and I'm mustering what I've got to get my car loaded, and head on out to Viable Paradise. I've really been trying not to freak out about it, and a very busy day job has helped on that front tremendously. But now, today, I head up to Martha's Vineyard. Even though it doesn't offiially start until tomorrow....oy. The ( Read more... ) -
Backups, the Cloud, and Trouble on the Horizon...
First things first: It's BACK IT UP WEDNESDAY!!!! Did YOU backup your work today yet? If not, go do it now.
Great.
Look, I certainly hope you aren't waiting for me to tell you to back up your data. Bad stuff happens. It happens all the time. I've had Blue Screens of Death. I've had hard disk failures. I've had servers at work go belly up, ( Read more... ) -
Amazon changing Cloud Player terms...but grrrr.
Ok, so legitimately, they have a right to do it. But legitimately, I have a right to be cranky that they did it. So I'm going to kvetch.
Amazon sent an email where they explained to me that they are altering the terms of their free Cloud Player. Up until now, the Cloud Player and Cloud driver were kind of linked as one thing. Going forward.... ( Read more... ) -
The return of Back It Up Wednesday.
This is my weekly* reminder folks, especially you writers out there, BACK UP YOUR DATA ( Read more... ) -
It's been a while...
It's been quite some time since I've talked Kindle and ebook stuff, so let me correct that.
I'll start off with my impressions of both the iPad (which I've been testing for a project at the Day Job) and the Kindle Fire.
Meh.
Ok, that's not terribly fair. Let me expand.
Back in the fall, I got my wife a Kindle Fire, thinking it would solve her need to ( Read more... ) -
A little "light" reading.
My older son manages to surprise me on a rather regular basis. I'm almost certain that I forget he's actually younger than he gives the impression. He's only five and a half at the moment. But he's tall for his age, and linguistically, he's far more adept than your average five year old. Today he just finished his last day of Pre-Kindergarten ( Read more... )