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Interesting. Like all good experiments it gets more interesting the deeper you go into it. I particularly like the timeline of news articles that trace developments in the story.
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This. This is what makes a vein in my forehead twitch every time I hear about the RIAA going after someone for filesharing “because it hurts the artist.” If record companies devoted a fraction of the resources to paying their own damned bills that they do to tracking down peer-to-peer users, artists would be a lot better off.
Month: December 2009
Secrets and boarding passes
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Good to have a little more transparency, even if it's accidental, around the TSA's processes.
Making wishes come true
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It is, inevitably, humbling to show up for a routine gig and become a part of someone else’s story. That happened today as we performed at the Prudential Center at a free gig; at the end of the second set, we helped to make Victor’s wish a reality. When I think about how we take performing for granted… I don’t think I’ll take it for granted any more.
Grab bag: Pops, free Google DNS
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Saturday is the first Boston Pops Christmas gig of the season, and it’s free!
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Free DNS for Google. Easier to remember, too: 8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8.
Grab bag: Royalty madness
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“Yes, we know that the numbers don’t add up, and it doesn’t matter.”
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This might be a good solution for securing legacy applications where you don’t have the source code, or as an OS level feature. Generally speaking, it’s better to just fix the vulnerabilities.
Grammy-nominated blogger
The Grammy nominations for 2009 are out, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is on the list (along with Beyoncé and Lady Gaga, of course). Our recording of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe with the BSO under James Levine got the nod.
I was kind of hoping that our Brahms Requiem recording would be nominated–it’s certainly a more prominent chorus role, and I think it’s one of the best recordings available of the work. But I’m not complaining.
The only question is: do I put “Grammy nominated” on my resumé now? (Of course not, but it’s fun to contemplate.)
Update: I would be doing my BSO colleagues a disservice if I didn’t note that the album is also up for Best Engineered Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance.
Grab bag: Farewell Charlie, IE6 go now
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Charlie is now forever stuck on the MTA.
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I hope that Microsoft gets through to these users, especially the corporate ones, but if all the security issues don’t get through to them then what will?