About this time last year, someone pointed me at a fairly long post called A Contemplation on Music by PreacherMike. It quotes a lengthy address by Karl Paulnack, director of the music division at Boston Conservatory to the incoming freshmen of 2004 (as far as I remember).
For musicians or lovers of music, it's a delightful [...]
Guess who?
Censorship seems to be the order of the day.
Carol Coleman, bless her, tried to squeeze the Muhammad Vs. South Park debate into about ten minutes of The Wide Angle on NewsTalk today . While inviting a brash comedian to debate a Dublin Muslim leader might have seemed like a good idea at the time, [...]
Sunday, November 15, 2009
How many megapixels??
Have you ever snooped around a friend's photo albums on Facebook? Well, you're a liar (unless you just admitted it) for, as we all know, Facebook stalking is now the number one leisure time activity for 90% of the western world, probably costing Irish businesses €100BN a year(†).
Everywhere you go, at every party, [...]
"How do I double click on something?"
The World Wide Web, as opposed to ARPAnet, came into existence in 1991. Search engines have been there since the start. Google has been around since 1998. That's eleven years, if you've been counting.
So why do so many people still know practically nothing about searching Google?
Here is a common [...]
Me, clowning around with Bock
Well, I've just had an interesting phone call from an American lady called Karen Evans from the N.C.S.D.
It sounded pretty much like a telemarketing call to me. Karen told me she wanted to conduct a brief telephone interview to 'confirm some of their research.'
She knew my name and home address and [...]
Friday, February 27, 2009
OMG only minus 17 years left!
It's your right to believe whatever you want. As long as it doesn't affect me, I don't care what insane ideas you have arbitrarily decided to accept as fact.
That is the polite thing to say first. But now that that's out of the way, let me say something else.
You (the [...]
I'm not preaching and I'm not advocating piracy. Just bringing something to your attention (RIAA and MPAA).
Monty Python started a YouTube channel with tons of their sketches streaming for free. The included links to their DVDs at Amazon. The result was a whopping 23,000% increase in sales.
[Link: Gizmodo.]
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The latest TB platter
This chap has a request. Can we help him out?
Sorry to bother you but I was wondering if you could help….came across the Limerick band archive via a Romanian blog I picked up on when googling Tuesday Blue – is it true they released an album called "Waiting for the [...]
