Blogger blogging issues

Posted on 19/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

TEST: Still problems with “view web page” and “recent blog” links in Blogger. Publishing is also not yet into the correct map.

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Composer bio’s

Posted on 18/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

While googling for biographical information on composers in my Tagore page, I wondered why dead composers have a date of birth and living composers don’t, according to their bio’s. Or, put it different, why is it so difficult to obtain a year of birth for a living composer?

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100 composers setting Tagore

Posted on 17/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

Well, another (midnight) update on Tagore. I have now identified a total of 100 composers for which Tagore was an inspiration. There must be many more, I guess at least double, and the Bengali composers still to be explored…

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Antennas or Gorillas?

Posted on 15/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

Antennas of cellphones will become very small soon, as reported by the NY Times (reg. req.). I hope they will be fabricated with other stuff then the present ones. Arthur C. Clarke, SF writer, and Leonardo di Caprio, patrons of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, are pointing to the thread to the forests of Eastern Congo, home of the gorilla, where 80% of the Coltan ore comes from that is used in antennas! I guess that the continuous political instability of this region has also to do with these scarce material. And what about Mugabe and his involvement in Congo, and thus his urge to remain in power in Zimbabwe?

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Joking Jake

Posted on 15/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

I accidently did find this site useitorlooseit with useabili-teas on Jakob Nielsen (my hero, and I mean that)

(post script March 2011: Jakob’s site is still live as it was in 2002. No matter the jokes, Jakob is right in sticking to simple. And don’t underestimate the complexity behind such a “simpleness”)

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Tagore update

Posted on 15/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

And again another update on my Tagore page (continuing story)

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Polishing Tagore pages

Posted on 13/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

Did an update on the Tagore list. Still needs a lot to fill in. Have to check if there are maybe more off-line references.

And I polished it (and not for the last time) trying to explain more clearly the purpose of those pages, which is to provide a list of all works inspired by Tagore, who was himself both poet and composer.

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Googling for Tagore settings

Posted on 12/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

These last few days I googled around to assemble a list of composers who are using Tagore’s texts. Needs a lot more googling. There seem to be a lot more than I could imagine.

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Suzy and Jack

Posted on 12/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

Compare these: the april 2001 bulletin of the Harvard Business School has a Q&A with Suzy Wetlaufer. She seems a nice person to me, both from text and photo.

But then, The Wall Street Journal of 5 March 2002 (is that a new tabloid??) features her too, using the same picture. But what a difference! The story now is on her staff, seeking her resignation as editorial director of the Harvard Business Review. She had interviewed former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, but had become more closer with him.

Why is it so important to mention everywhere, in relation to her resignation, that she is divorced? And that she has 4 children? Put the blame on Jack Welch. Why is the focus on her, not on him?

I think because she is a woman, and good-looking too.

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Bookmarklets

Posted on 09/03/2002 by ericvdlinden

Lockergnome pointed out “bookmarklets”: www.bookmarklets.com”. Seems something worth to explore a bit further.

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