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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Chopin and Mortality

22-Nov-06

For those of you who don’t know who was Fryderyk Chopin.
I’ve been listening, and studying Chopin scores for many years now, as part of the courses I teach: Analysis and Composition. On a more personal level, listening to Sonata No.2 in Bb minor, Op. 35 my brain started digesting the music, I couldn’t but feel [...]

Last Exile Continued

20-Nov-06

As per my last post, I talked about Last Exile, at that time I had only watched the first 4 episodes, this weekend I watched all 26 of them, and I have to say this is a work of art!
The characters were hand painted by Range Murata, I’m a fan of Murata’s work–it is [...]

Last Exile

15-Nov-06

Last Exile is an anime series, or as some call it “The Anime” series. I learned about Last Exile through the work of artist Range Murata (No I don’t know him, I know his work) I found some wallpapers with his work on several sites, It was an immediate attraction, the guy is a genious [...]

Becoming a professional programmer/developer

15-Nov-06

I was discussing with a good friend the open java initiative by Sun, he has some good points; things that can go bad for the community because of this move by Sun.
I want to concentrate in one of the points he listed that triggered an exception in my head.
He said and I paraphrase “What [...]

No Rules, Just Right?

08-Nov-06

This is my response to the following statement made by my friend Tamgo.
I think I understand what you are trying to say, but I feel you are mixing two different philosophical principles–That of freedom of thinking and physical liberties. While I do agree that we are prisoners of our own mind, and by that [...]

To release or not to release that is the question.

02-Nov-06

There is a trend going on in the software engineering camp, and that is that most people don’t know how to make a major release. The problem goes like this, I made this cool software and it’s “feature complete” (what ever that means). so I make my 1.0 release, two days later they make release [...]

Blogging

01-Nov-06

Yes that’s right I’m blogging about blogs. You see I’ve been hearing about this phenomenon for a few years now, I have followed quite a few blogs for years, and even tried blogging and basically failed — I’m sure nobody wants to know why, but I don’t care so here I go.
What makes blogging difficult [...]