Monthly Archives: February 2007

Aha! The Joyce Hatto Scandal

I’m feeling a little less crazy tonight. I’ve been wondering for some time if I just didn’t get something fundamental about being a pianist and/or a professional musician. That something is that you can make a really fine recording of … Continue reading

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Vista and Fiddling

In having installed Vista on my PC and getting to know the OS, I’m struck with something that I had almost forgotten about since I started using a Mac full-time: you have to fiddle with the thing incessantly to get … Continue reading

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Recording Lectures

Recently I have begun a project to record some of my theory lectures, using an iPod with a Griffin iTalk microphone and an attached lavalier mic. It works well enough, not great but perfectly acceptable — especially once I learned … Continue reading

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Video and Vista

Recently I upgraded my PC to Vista (see some earlier posts). This is primarily out of curiosity more than anything else; I’m a Macintosh user and definitely have little to no desire to start working in Windows regularly. But I … Continue reading

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Vista, OSX, and all that

So this evening I spent some time installing Vista Home Premium on my Dell Dimension 8300, the only one of my many PCs that I’ve kept after my transition to the Mac. I must say that I was delighted to … Continue reading

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The Whole Enterprise

Recently I undertook to do something I’ve never done before, which was to watch an entire TV series from beginning to end as a project. Of course I couldn’t do this in one sitting, mind you, but over a period … Continue reading

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