BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Court secures classical copyright: “A major change to US music copyright practices could be in the offing after a court ruled a record label broke the law by reissuing old recordings. New York’s highest court said Naxos was wrong to release classical recordings by Yehudi Menuhin and others … Read more
Just a really quick note about Easytree. I posted a few days ago to say that it had closed for business. A successor is up and running – you can find it at www.dimeadozen.org . As with Easytree membership is restricted to 100,000 – so if you are interested in joining it may take a … Read more
This is a bit of a silly post, I know. Blogs posts about blogging are a bit too introspective usually. But I have been complaining a lot lately about the fact that my host, Blogger, frequently crashes. This usually happens just as I am trying to post something which I have just written and not … Read more
Largehearted Boy: Bittorrent Brunch: More about the demise of Easytree. A great weblog, Largehearted Boy, suggests some alternatives. It’s amazing that the legal community don’t realise that as fast as they track and close down these sites, others open up to replace them. Better surely to think about ways to create authorised environments for sharing … Read more
I am reading a book by Nick Owen called “The magic of metaphor”. It is a collection of stories designed to engage, inspire and transform the listener and the reader. He looks at the whole idea of story-telling and pulls out the power of the story-teller when giving a story from memory rather than reading … Read more
This is a photo taken from the chair-lift whilst skiing in Kaprun, Austria back in February. I thought I would post it just to remember the beauty, the grace and the spectacle of the place.
For my birthday I got an iRiver H340. This is a wonderful machine. It’s known in the market as an mp3 player. But it does so much more. It can store 40 GBs of data – that can be mp3s, photos, text (eBooks), data and even videos. It has a colour screen so that you … Read more
These five key questions were suggested to me by Ben Shoshan, who is a mind set / executive coach working for Si Group. They are meant to be used when something negative happens, to reframe the situation, and change the usual reaction: 1. What could be good about this?2. What’s not perfect, yet?3. Who can … Read more
As regular readers will know I have discovered podcasts over the last few weeks. I have already mentioned some of the podcasts I have been listening to. My top three at the moment are Richard Vobes, Podcast Paul and Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. One that I have really enjoyed listening to whilst working is … Read more
A few days ago someone posted a poem as a comment to this post . I say, someone, because I followed the link to their own blogger profile and found a host of names and aliases. I think he is Desmond Swords – but not for certain! He is also Scalljah, Sloppy Bob, and Jan … Read more