This is a post inspired by a status update in Facebook. I think it’s nice that Safari lets us get away with so many great new words – most of them reflections of the digital age. Kudos to Apple for the coolest spellchecker around! (if it could just learn not to turn itself off [...]

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 [...]

We’ve decided to add a ground-level terrace out of cobblestones that will start at the front of the house, include a walkway that will traverse the side and end at the back of the house with gathering areas on both sides, and a staircase up to the door located in the music salon where the [...]

Here is a photo album of our recent roadtrip through Northern Europe in a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle [about the car].  We drove through Germany, first on side roads, and then on the Autobahn, stopping overnight in Bremen before continuing to The Hague.  We spent 4 days in The Hague and the nearby cities of Delft [...]

I can’t believe the unfailing creativity of spammers. I got a spam today for Viagra. You know how sometimes they change the spelling to evade spam filters? Spellings such as Via-gra or Viaagra are meant to get through a spam filter that your email has in which you tell it to trash any [...]

Having recently purchased a WII, I have had the chance to get back in touch with some long forgotten Mario games.  I bought a used console, and the person who had it before me had already downloaded some of the most popular retro games for the Virtual Console: specifically Super Mario Brothers 3 and Super Mario [...]