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Sunday, September 28, 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 platform, at least, and I hope on Windows as well) is no longer the terrible, bloaty excuse for a player that it always was in the past.
So, I've been checking out some things in the philosophy of mind section. I'm currently checking out this interview with Antonio Damasio (or here), whose book, The Feeling of What Happens, I used in one passage of my thesis.
[The interview above, along with many others on the Philosophy Radio page, comes from theconnection.org, a program on wbur, a Boston public radio station].
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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 platform, at least, and I hope on Windows as well) is no longer the terrible, bloaty excuse for a player that it always was in the past.
So, I've been checking out some things in the philosophy of mind section. I'm currently checking out this interview with Antonio Damasio (or here), whose book, The Feeling of What Happens, I used in one passage of my thesis.
[The interview above, along with many others on the Philosophy Radio page, comes from theconnection.org, a program on wbur, a Boston public radio station].
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Saturday, September 27, 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 to realize just how cool it is. When my 30-day demo expired, I did something I rarely do: I bought a copy (with my own money, even). There's a new version out for Windows, and I'm glad to see that they've now released a version for Linux.
EditPadPro isn't free, in any sense (though the less powerful version, EditPad Lite is free for non-commercial use). But it's fairly cheap ($40) and has, in my case at least, paid for itself many times over in productivity boosts and lack of frustration. If you're an emacs or vi guru, you'll hate it. If you're not, check it out.
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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 to realize just how cool it is. When my 30-day demo expired, I did something I rarely do: I bought a copy (with my own money, even). There's a new version out for Windows, and I'm glad to see that they've now released a version for Linux.
EditPadPro isn't free, in any sense (though the less powerful version, EditPad Lite is free for non-commercial use). But it's fairly cheap ($40) and has, in my case at least, paid for itself many times over in productivity boosts and lack of frustration. If you're an emacs or vi guru, you'll hate it. If you're not, check it out.
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Thursday, September 25, 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 bit melodramatic for modern tastes. But it's an engaging film, none the less.
Forgot to mention that I went to see Victor Wooten play Monday night. It was my third time to see Wooten play. I caught him once with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and once on his first solo tour (when it was just him, drummer J. D. Bair, and a couple of Lexicon JamMan looping devices).
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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 bit melodramatic for modern tastes. But it's an engaging film, none the less.
Forgot to mention that I went to see Victor Wooten play Monday night. It was my third time to see Wooten play. I caught him once with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and once on his first solo tour (when it was just him, drummer J. D. Bair, and a couple of Lexicon JamMan looping devices).
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Tuesday, September 23, 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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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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Sunday, September 21, 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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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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Friday, September 19, 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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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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Sunday, September 14, 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. But I'll roll it out as soon as I can put all of my archives into the database. Then I'll clean it up and release it on sourceforge.
I finished up a little PHP/MySQL app for managing links. It'll soon go on one of the sites I maintain at work.
A friend of mine and I have been playing around with phpwiki as an online doccumentation tool. It's pretty cool.
Something for a rainy day: Politics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (haven't read it yet, but thought I'd link it just in case).
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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. But I'll roll it out as soon as I can put all of my archives into the database. Then I'll clean it up and release it on sourceforge.
I finished up a little PHP/MySQL app for managing links. It'll soon go on one of the sites I maintain at work.
A friend of mine and I have been playing around with phpwiki as an online doccumentation tool. It's pretty cool.
Something for a rainy day: Politics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (haven't read it yet, but thought I'd link it just in case).
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Friday, September 12, 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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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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Wednesday, September 03, 2003
A postmodern moment: le plus ca change, le plus c'est la meme chose
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A postmodern moment: le plus ca change, le plus c'est la meme chose
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