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Nomadic Research Labs and Gonzo Engineering
Submitted by strannik on Wed, 2005-03-09 23:00. In an apparent last minute (before lent starts) drive to satiate my technolust,
I must point out another worthy site: Nomadic Research Labs.
I met Steve Roberts while I was at Sun Microsystems (late 80s early 90s), when he was still working on BEHEMOTH. He was in a donated lab in my building, and seemed to be there nearly 24 hours a day. I had first read about him on Compuserve in the earlier 80s, when he was riding the Winnebiko.
Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and Perl Religion :-)
Submitted by strannik on Tue, 2005-03-08 23:00.Slashdot | Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and...
Taking the bus to choir practice, the bus passed the New Life Church Of The Nazarene which I recalled just happens to be where Larry Wall goes to Church. This reminded me of one of my favorite quotes, taken from the above slashdot interview:
7) Role of Religion?
by Anonymous Cowdog
O'Reilly Make Magazine Now Available!
Submitted by strannik on Mon, 2005-03-07 23:00.I am truly excited about this! At last a magazine for tinkerers from the best publisher for code tinkerers. This promises to be good. I haven't been so excited about a magazine since Popular Electronics.
History of Valentines Day - From the Bill Petro Archives
Submitted by strannik on Sun, 2005-02-13 23:00.http://www.billpetro.com/HolidayHistory/hol/val.html
One of the things I missed from my Sun Microsystems days, was seeing regular emails from "Bill Petro - Your Friendly Neighborhood Historian" on sun.junk. Well, to my great delight they are online. I thought readers would find it interesting. The rest of them can be found at:
http://www.billpetro.com/HolidayHistory/defaul
Ancient Faith Radio is on 24/7
Submitted by strannik on Tue, 2005-02-08 23:00.Ancient Faith Radio now uses a non-proprietary audio format, which works with my MP3 player and Firefox (I seem to recall trying it before, but it required some plugin that needed Internet Explorer). There is some very nice content being streamed here 24 hours a day! Orthodox singing of all kinds and some good readings, including for children - check it out!
The Primary Geek Orthodox Yahoo Group
Submitted by strannik on Wed, 2005-02-02 23:23.Yahoo! Groups : orthotech
Lilypond - Open Source Music Engraving for Choir Directors
Submitted by strannik on Wed, 2005-02-02 23:00.Since I am a choir director and often do new settings of music (or typeset music that was previously handwritten), I often need to typeset music. I have tried a few different programs for this, including Allegro (a subset of Finale), but I am most happy with Lilypond, which is now the only music engraving software I am using. Lilypond is also chant-friendly, and can do square-note notation (ala Sputnik Psalmochika for example), which eliminates some of the kludges done in Finale for chant. The above Essay discusses why, if you might want to consider using Lilypond. There is a bit of a learning curve, but once you have some templates in place, it is just as easy as anything else - perhaps more so. Since the basic input is text based, I can even start typeseting a piece on my PDA. And yes - it means that I now also do music engraving in vi :-).
My Big Fat Geek Orthodox Tools Page
Submitted by strannik on Tue, 2005-02-01 23:00.Greetings on the feast of the Meeting of the Lord! (for those of us on the new Calendar).
I hope it will become my "web leatherman" of stuff to check periodically :
Sending Kisses Long Distance
Submitted by strannik on Mon, 2005-01-31 23:17.One of my Goddaughters has a father in the Army, stationed in North Korea away from his wife and two daughters. While he doesn't have RPGs and bullets flying at him on a regular basis like those in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is still a hard pull being away from family (I have another friend in the Navy in Africa in the same predicament). You could call this post a prayer request for all those people who send their children "kisses on the moon." This is from the father, who responded to a survey sent to him:
New 2005 'Getting to Know You' survey.
1. What is your full name? (Name Withheld for the sake of Privacy)
Phronema Status or My Other Blog is a VW
Submitted by strannik on Sun, 2005-01-30 23:14.A word about Phronema
For those of you formerly following Phronema, and wondering why I am blogging here, there is a simple explanation: I wanted to have a bit more "offsite" space, but I finally found out what all the complaints are about with PHP-Nuke (the software behind phronema) - I now have a database corruption problem among other things. The solution will be a long slow migration to using mambo. This is not a priority amidst all of my other projects, but I wanted to be able to dash things off.
