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Archive for March, 2008

Plugging Linnaea

Posted in music, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »

I just thought I should give my wife’s band a plug. They are called Linnaea and are a Swedish-American folk duo with American, Norwegian, Swedish and some Anglo-Irish music on their repertoire. This weekend and the following week they are performing and lecturing at the 27th Edinburgh International Harp Festival, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their entry can be found on the festival page.So if you are in [...]

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Hats off!

Posted in Humanities, Legends, Philosophy, Tech, author, books, tagged , , , , on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The venerable Arthur C. Clarke has died, age 90, and a world of geeks cries out. Maybe I should watch 2001: A Space Odyssey tonight? You know, as a beautiful but slightly confusing tribute.
Thobias

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Why Amazon MP3 isn’t a real threat to iTunes, yet!

Posted in New media, Podcast, Streaming, Tech, mac, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »

Yesterday I listened to the latest edition of MacBreak Weekly, number 79, and one of the things they talk a lot about was the iTunes Store vs. Amazon MP3 thing. Now as you may or may not be aware the record labels aren’t to happy with Apple’s position when negotiating with them, and have there [...]

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Humanities in the tech industry?

Posted in Humanities, Philosophy, Tech, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »

Yesterday I partook in the annual get together at the Uni where we are told that people who study the humanities can indeed be both useful and worth the money in a corporate environment. As this is news to many companies it is oftentimes a very interesting day out. There was only one problem this [...]

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