I heard a recording of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture for the first time in the mid-1980s, when I had just started buying classical music albums and a company called Telarc Records was pioneering digital recordings. Of course these weren’t digital in...
Topics: culture, holidays, music, tchaikovsky

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Red…White…And blue….More here:Red, White, and BlueHappy Fourth of July!
Topics: holidays, my garden, my home, photography

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From the following video comes a perspective on technology that illustrates the rapid, exponential pace of change since the 1990s – a pace unlike anything human beings have ever experienced. The video ends with: “What does it all mean?” A very good.
Topics: culture, history, science, technology

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… Is available in a 3.0 compatible version now. If you installed the most recent version of the iPhone or iPod Touch operating system and then had trouble assigning categories to posts, the new WordPress for iPhone application corrects that...
Topics: ipod touch, wordpress

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I had hoped to resume writing here more regularly by now, but “fate” intervened in the form of a sudden drop in the water pressure at my house. So instead of writing (and instead of keeping up with my classes), I’ve spent countless...
Topics: life, my home

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