climate, photos, miscellany
This is pretty neat: the City of Ottawa has created an iPhone app with information on events and activities ongoing in the city. Versions for Android and BlackBerry are forthcoming, later this year. Having a lot of this kind of information centralized in one place seems useful, particularly in a form tailored to be accessible [...]
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One really annoying bug exists in iTunes 10.1.1 (4). When you buy a track from the iTunes Store, it doesn’t go into Apple’s default ‘Recently Added’ smart playlist. This makes it so you have basically two different ‘inboxes’ for new songs, podcasts, etc. You need to remember whether you bought a song on iTunes, ripped [...]
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My brother Sasha is getting very good at playing the piano: Chopin – Waltz No. 19 in A Minor. The music starts at 1:53.
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My very talented friend Andrea is working on a second album! You can hear a couple of songs from Sleeper, her excellent first album, on her website. Fans of hers can also help support her new album and get some nice perks.
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Here’s an odd iTunes bug. Sometimes when you import a CD, the tracks get copied to your iTunes Library and onto your iPod/iPhone when you sync it. Oddly, the albums are not accessible through the ‘Artists’ list in either iTunes itself or on an iPod. The problem results when iTunes inappropriately labels tracks as ‘part [...]
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My brother Sasha has really been devoting himself to the piano, in recent years. Over on his blog, he has put up a video of the first song he ever wrote with lyrics, entitled: “Mrs. Yesterday.” I think it is quite impressive.
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The first version of the song ‘Johnny Appleseed‘ I learned was the secularized version, in which Appleseed thanks ‘the Earth’ for giving him the things he needs: “the sun, and the rain, and the appleseed.” He concludes that “the Earth is good to [him].” Later, I learned that this is a stripped-down version of a [...]
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According to data featured on Boing Boing, record labels are dying at the same time as musicians are doing better than ever on account of live performances. To a large extent, this must represent the impact of technology on the industry, particularly the internet and file sharing. Morally and aesthetically, it is difficult to know [...]
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My talented friend Andrea Simms-Karp will be on the CBC’s Vinyl Cafe with Stuat Maclean in the next few days: Saturday September 12th – 9am – CBC Radio 2 Sunday September 13th – noon – CBC Radio 1 Tuesday September 15th – 11pm – CBC Radio 1 I was present at the taping, and I [...]
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Last night’s photo show launch was well attended and great fun. My thanks again to the ever-talented Andrea Simms-Karp as well as the highly comic and deservedly infamous Astronaut Love Triangle (with introductory note above). Their repertoire included songs about cyberstalking, the side effects of the modern pharmacological rainbow, and the tenacity of the large [...]
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