The first movement Allegro from Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto number 1 is built upon the conversational interplay among the 4 instrument groups: horns, reeds, high strings, and continuo. Bach mixes and matches them in all possible ways in between their simultaneous presentation and dismissal at the works beginning and end. It was therefore important for me [...]

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You’ve probably seen those Themes that include something in the order of: “By downloading and using this theme, you agree to link back to our site” In this video, WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg talks about the WordPress GPL and how any works built on it need to follow the original license, meaning that Theme creators [...]

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I’ve been auditioning the two major competing Comment systems available for blogs today. I started out with Intense Debate, switched to Disqus, then switched back to Intense Debate.  Both systems do fundamentally the same thing: they allow people to add comment threading, community, and a mass of features and plugins to the standard install of, [...]

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The normal search that is included with lots of WordPress themes is pretty inaccurate in terms of the results it shows. Users often can’t see the word they’ve searched, they only get a list of posts in which their search term is contained. If they don’t know how to Ctrl or Apple-F to find the [...]

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This is the online premiere of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture arranged for violin and melodica solo by Cliff Bernzweig. No multitracking has been done; in other words, both parts are played as is. This was lots of fun to play, and was recorded in one day using an Olympus portable dictaphone that was then used as [...]

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The world’s first user-programmable tilt interface for Macintosh has just been update to version 1.1.  A drastic addition has been made in the form of a new cability to exchange the X and Y Axes (see below).  This is particularly useful for the new Macbook Pro 15″ Unibody model, which according to one source has [...]

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