There has been a lot of talk about the Radiohead In Rainbows CD sale strategy. Some say that they can do it because they have a following, have sold tons of records in the past, and their concerts are well, sold out. Same is said about NIN remix a initiative started by Trent Reznor, and [...]
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Programmer vs. Developer
27-Jun-07For years I have ignored the programmer vs. developer problem. For those of you that don’t know of this problem it’s quite simple: There is a trend in some IT circles to regard programmers as second class citizens, as code cowboys that are trigger happy, and are just good for writing code.
Right now if you [...]
Chopin and Mortality
22-Nov-06For 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 [...]