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 for [...]

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 [...]

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 emails having [...]

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 [...]