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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
Caught a documentary about Carl Th. Dreyer and one of his films, Day of Wrath (1943). Both have been reissued on Criterion.
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. [...]
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.
A postmodern moment: le plus ca change, le plus c’est la meme chose