Friday, January 2nd, 2009
IE continues it's downward spiral as the browser dips below 69% at the expense of Firefox and the WebKit-powered duo of Apple Safari and Google Chrome. The breakdown as paraphrased by TG Daily:
Net Applications released updated global browser market share numbers today, indicating that IE is losing users at an ...
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
I am sure that a moment like this:
was part of the inspiration that led to this:
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Luciano Pavarotti, one of the greatest tenors of all time, is dead at 71.
I never had much of an appreciation for Pavarotti until one day back at NEC when a friend of mine played three recordings of the same section from a Puccini opera. The difference in tone, control, phrasing, ...
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
Check out this great clip on how the San Francisco Opera simulcast their performance of Madama Butterfly to thousands in the Civic Center plaza, for free. The clip includes some powerful scenes from the opera, as well as a bit of background on new General Director David Gockley.
Do these regularly. ...
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Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Joe Volpe gets hip
Sharp-eyed reader Nora Renka noticed that the drop curtain at the Met's Romeo et Juliette features a medieval figure reading a book, and on the book is written the phrase "LORVM IPSVM ALL YOVR BASE ARE BELONG TO VS."
W00t! :D
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