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A Poll: Which Version of Bach Brandenburg Concerto #2 do you like?

This sounds weird but I tweeted which version of Bach I was listening to and I got all kinds of opinions on my facebook page
Please feel free to comment on why you prefer the one you prefer…I'm very interested…
Posted in Music Tagged: Bach, Brandeburg, Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F, Classical Music, Favorite Classical, Music, Period [...:]

My Favorite Dilberts…

Posted in Random

Chromium Update – It seems to be working now…

So sometime over the weekend, the fancy button on the top left came to life and the apps were available (and it took my gmail auth).   I also suspect that there was a behind the back update to the service because I've done nothing with the partition since Friday, and this morning it was [...:]

Chromium OS…you CAN wait…

So I loaded up Chromium OS on my mac as a vmware partition alongside my XP partition. I will say that XP is more stable than Chromium — Kudos to Microsoft
For those of you who do not know, Chromium OS is the new operating system ostensibly for netbooks and tablets from Google.  It [...:]

#RIAUnleashed – notes from "UX for the development minded"

The slides will probably do this more justice, but these are my notes:
The presenter was Adam Powell from Universal Mind
We are surrounded by great experiences – nice cars, satellite radio online service (pulsar), gourmet food delivered inexpensively…the iphone (which changed the way we view what a phone can do)…the movie Pulp fiction (ok this was [...:]

#RIAUnleashed – notes from "keeping front end dependencies under control session"

The real slides are going to be posted at some point by the coordinators, but just for my own sake here is what I typed as fast as possible
5 simple rules for better client performance  (these are yahoo's recommendations)

organize and plan
location matters
load a component smart and once
maximized caching opportunities
optimize, minify and compress

Javascript
over time you keep [...:]

Windows 7 is pretty stable a week into it…here's how I got there…

I did my upgrade last week from that abysmal Vista 64 to Windows 7 64. First I'd like to recount how long it took. For that, I will show you my tweets from last Friday night/Saturday morning.  Let me say that I started the upgrade at about 10:30 PM on Friday night:

@alexbarnett was [...:]

4A's analysis of a marketing failure: Microsoft Zune

So I wrote this paper for my marketing management class.  Since this is my first marketing class, you'll forgive my newbie look at a product.  But I thought it was a fun paper to write, so I'm sharing it.   Normally marketing talks about the 4P's, our class has been studying the downstream affects of [...:]

Apple Time Capsule

So as I tweeted tonight, I received my 1TB Apple Time Capsule today and installed it to replace my aging Linksys router and to capture my dream of having a network disk mounted that all my machines could use (and maybe do some backups).  The real reason is that I need to back up all [...:]

Famous and Self-Abuse…

I'm reading Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft on my Kindle.  I thought it appropriate since I'm trying to be a writer, why not get advice from arguably the most successful fiction writer of the last 30 years.   Now mind you I didn't say the best, I just said most successful. [...:]