Archive for September, 2003

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Saturday, September 27th, 2003

I’ve blogged Philosophy Radio before, but I never got to enjoy much of it as most all of it is in real audio format. But, wanting to check out some of these sources, I took the plunge and installed realone player on an OS X box. And I was pleasantly suprised that it (on that [...]

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Friday, September 26th, 2003

People who code for a living develop a deep attachments to their favorite text editors. I do most of my development work under Windows 2000 and have been using EditPad Pro for quite a while now. I love it. It’s a great app. You have to download it and play with it for a while [...]

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Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

This lorem ipsum generator came in handy today.
Continuing with the Carl Th. Dreyer films, I watched The Passion of Joan of Arc (or here) a few days back. Amazing for 1928. I really like Dreyer’s minimalism in set design. And he pulls off some amazing tracking shots. His Joan of Arc is more than a [...]

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Monday, September 22nd, 2003

Happy birthday, John Coltrane. North Carolina Central University’s public radio station, WNCU (which I found on iTunes) is playing tons of Coltrane today (he was born in N.C., if you didn’t know) and lots of Bud Powell as well. Two hard-bop geniuses.

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Saturday, September 20th, 2003

erasing.org has launched audio.erasing.org, where your host reads selected entries (mp3s you can download, if you like, or just play them in your browser). Scott’s voice reminds me a bit of David Sedaris with a touch of William Faulkner.

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Thursday, September 18th, 2003

Caught a documentary about Carl Th. Dreyer and one of his films, Day of Wrath (1943). Both have been reissued on Criterion.

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Saturday, September 13th, 2003

Something new I’m checking out just now: scottraymond.net
Spent part of last night working on my blogware (I saw a comment on a site recently that claimed, only half-jokingly, that rolling your own blogware was becomming unhip. In the future, using blogger will become hip again). It’s one of those ongoing projects that will never die. [...]

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Thursday, September 11th, 2003

Ganttproject is a nice, Java-based desktop app that helps you chart your projects. It saves as XML and can open and save from a remote server. Nice feature, that.
I am snowed under with projects right now.
We lost Johnny Cash. He was 71.

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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003

A postmodern moment: le plus ca change, le plus c’est la meme chose

personal weblog of James “Wheatbread” Martin