Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick - An excellent behind the scenes look at the recording sessions that produced some of the greatest albums in history. Geoff Emerick, the principle engineer on most of the Beatles work from Revolver through Abbey Road, provides a fascinating look […]
When I was a kid, Elvis was already on the oldies station. Even though most of my peers thought he was corny, a small group of us still thought his early hits were pretty cool. With the recent spate of nostalgia surrounding the thirtieth anniversary of his death I find it interesting that as his […]
Found a nice freeware font viewer, akFontViewer. akFontViewer is a 32-bit utility that lets you view samples of all your installed fonts in Windows. It can show a list of fonts with each font rendered in its own typeface. Also a window much like a Character Map — which is always […]
Here’s a nice find. ‘When Insults had Class’ shows how uninspired our current day talking heads are compared to their counterparts from yesteryear. My favorite is from Samuel Johnson - “He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”
Garrett Dimon on the Geniant blog posted a slide from a Cameron […]
… is eleven years old and entering the sixth grade this fall. She’s by far a better basketball player than I was at that age. She’s a tall kid who’s been playing organized ball since she was nine and she’s pretty good. In fact, she’s probably the best player on her team (in my admittedly […]
I’ve recently run into some problems at work so I thought it might be useful to share some debugging tips.
Rule out the obvious first. I don’t know how many times I’ve been working on a remote connection error or an application access error and found the problem to be something as simple as a disabled […]