I left my car in the Blake High School parking lot and walked over to the University of Tampa to try to catch a glimpse of the President. The security was impressive, with SWAT-type guys on rooftops and lots of cops and secret service types on the ground. Then a huge motorcade arrived with about [...]
I’ve read this lyric three times now and I can’t say I understand it. My assessment is that this song is important to my son’s orchestra conductor not because of the lyric, but because the music is predominantly string orchestra, one of the few such songs (the only?) to go number one on both the U.S. [...]
The first story, “The Evolution of Video Game Music,” was replayed this morning on WUSF …
April 12, 2008
The Evolution of Video Game Music
May 29, 2009
Video Game Music: Big Business, Big Money
January 7, 2010
When Play Means Pay: Video Game Jobs On The Rise
When you spend a dollar today, you’re giving up about $16 that could be yours 36 years from now.
The “Rule of 72” is a well-known rule of thumb.
The Rule of 72 estimates the number of years required to double your money at a given interest rate. Just take a hypothetical rate of return, say 8% [...]
This is GREAT news for Nintendo Wii owners and Netflix subscribers: Later this spring the Wii will begin supporting Netflix streaming in standard (not high definition) resolution. If you’re already a Netflix subscriber, you can apply on their website to receive a Wii disk which will enable the service / functionality when it becomes available [...]
Have you ever happened upon mister-wong.com? I did this morning while researching battery prices for my notebook computer. At first I was mad because Mister Wong seemed to be one of those websites that tricks you with fake content, but I’ve been trying to figure out what makes a website good for earning adsense dollars, so I [...]
Now, here is a list of things I’ve never heard of: Pearls Before Swine (except as in “do not cast …”), Neil Gaiman, and Y La Piedra Filosofal.
Pearls Before Swine is a comic strip? I can’t imagine reading a whole book full of comic strips.
Well, I looked up Neil Gaiman and found he is quite prolific. [...]
I have decided to give Google’s Picasa a try. I have about 20,000 digital images that need organizing. Most of them are now stored on a tall stack of CDs and DVDs … a real pain to find a particular image, especially if you can’t remember the approximate date it was created.
I have a 1 [...]