Tracking back on the Requiem
Anita blogged my rambling rant about Mozart’s Requiem. Her comments page has good feedback–particularly comment #3 which correctly calls me on my imprecise musical history. No one is really sure why Süssmayer or Mozart chose to end the final movement with the opening angry Requiem theme, and there is a lot of history between Mozart [...]
Back from the Meetup
Just got back from the Seattle blog meetup at the Sit ‘n’ Spin. Decent turnout–at the peak we had seven folks, six of whom blogged. Attendees besides me: Brent, Anita, Nat, Jerry, and C. (whose name I truncate not for privacy’s sake, but because I never quite caught it across the table. Sigh. The hearing [...]
Happy birthday to Lisa…
Happy birthday today to my wife Lisa. She has put up with me and has made some very stressful years of school and moving not just bearable but enjoyable because of her continual wit, humor, and energy. Plus she makes sure that I keep on my toes!
RSS 2.0
While I’m wondering about the market adoption of existing flavors of RSS, Dave has officially released RSS 2.0.more…
Jay gets beta fever
Looks like Jay got into the Xbox Live trial. I guess there’s no NDA on participation . This is good–we’ll get some really good perspectives from him about how that’s going. The man thinks critically about his gaming, a trait I admire.
First thoughts from Jay: “…the bad news is that I cannot log into [...]
Reliable data about RSS usage?
Dave and a bunch of folks have been fighting out the question of how to take the next step forward for RSS. This is an important fight, but I have a different question: how big is the RSS market?
Dave has a good idea about the market for producers and consumers of RSS feeds from a [...]
