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Sunday, July 30, 2006
Music stuff
Check this out. Vinyl. Cool or what?
I've got loads of old vinyl. People of a certain age have this stuff. I also have loads of CDs, VHS and more recently DVDs. I even have the odd MP3 but as I like my music loud and to vibrate the house I don't have a puny MP3 player.
The Music.com came to my attention at a Who concert last year. They sell some pretty cool gear for aging hippies and boomers. I did buy a pile of the Who's CDs from those 2005 gigs but I don't think my enthusiasm extends to getting a complete set of every gig, which appears to be available. Makes bootlegging obsolete, anyway.
I've got loads of old vinyl. People of a certain age have this stuff. I also have loads of CDs, VHS and more recently DVDs. I even have the odd MP3 but as I like my music loud and to vibrate the house I don't have a puny MP3 player.
The Music.com came to my attention at a Who concert last year. They sell some pretty cool gear for aging hippies and boomers. I did buy a pile of the Who's CDs from those 2005 gigs but I don't think my enthusiasm extends to getting a complete set of every gig, which appears to be available. Makes bootlegging obsolete, anyway.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
This has to be useful. Diigo has some cool tools for social annotators
This has to be useful. Diigo has some cool tools for social annotation - including sharing tags and bookmarks - plus some sharp tools for bloggers. Check it out.
Cool.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Le Tour 2006
My 2006 Tour de France Wrap up, all wrapped up
- Back to normal
- Stage 20 - Le Tour 2006 - the dust settles
- Stage 19 - Le Tour 2006 - the TT decides
- Stage 18 - Le Tour 2006 - Status Quo
- Stage 17 - Le Tour 2006 - Floyd flies!
- Stage 16 - le Tour 2006 - Floyd falters
- Stage 15 - Le Tour 2006 - Alpe d'Huez
- Rest Day 2 - Le Tour 2006
- Stage 14 - Le Tour 2006 - France over Italy this time
- Stage 13 - Le Tour 2006 - Voigt's day in the sun
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Le Tour 2006 - stage by stage
Missed some stages? Catch up here!
- Stage 12 - Le Tour 2006 - Discovery bounce back
- Stage 11 - Le Tour - Rabobank strongest
- Stage 10 - Le Tour - The mountain tactics
- Stage 9 - Le Tour - The Spaniard returns
- Le Tour - Rest Day 1
- Stage 8 - Le tour - Calzati's day
- Stage 7 - Le Tour 2006 - T-Mobile win
- Stage 6 - Le Tour 2006 - McEwen's 3rd.
- Stage 5 - Le Tour 2006 - the Spaniard takes it
- Stage 4 - Le Tour 2006 - McEwen's 2nd
- Stage 3 - Le Tour 2006 - the Cauberg
- Stage 2 - Le Tour 2006 - Chaos and the Viking
- Stage 1 - Le Tour 2006 - Blood on the road
- Prologue - Le Tour 2006
- Le Tour and the Aussie contingent
- We get so close and the rug gets pulled
Monday, July 10, 2006
Mustknow links
Mustknow, as in you must know this stuff. It's a fluid thing really. And not as prescriptive as it sounds. It's just my opinion. You don't really have to know this stuff, but I know it and I reckon someone else may like to know it too!
- Mustknow bikelinks, quintessential bike know-how.
- Addicted2wheels, the bike blog for racers
- Bike racing for almost anyone
- Take a flying leap with these airliner links. From Constellations to DC2s...
- Got a Tipo 116? Crash your world with these slightly Alfa-centric carlinks..
- Like your music with electricity? Thrash your world with these musiclinks
- Super cool music theory site
- Philosophically speaking, you must have some idea about why we are here
- Environment getting you down? It should! Serious, sustainable business blogging
- Steady study with the MBA resources at thespiel
Friday, July 07, 2006
History of the P4 - well, one view anyway
I'm a bit obsessed with the PC industry. In analysing the product life cycle of the PC recently I suggested that it was at the stage where it had commoditised and faced concentration into a few big players being nibbled at on teh edges by niches; or where it quietly died, replaced by something better. At the heart of the PC of course is the processor and the chief players include Intel and AMD. Their future is inextricably linked to the PC market. Either that or get out and do something elsewhere, like IBM has done with Cell. And there's a whole wealth of history in processors.
Now it's pretty plain that relatively speaking the P4 was a dud that lost ground to AMD. Intel turned to the P3 design to develop the Pentium M, rather than leverage P4. And again they ignored the P4 to develop their new "Core" product line. Try this quote from Tom Yager: "Intel’s first server-targeted core microarchitecture CPU, the Dual-core Xeon Processor 5100 (aka Woodcrest), has made its debut. A client CPU line branded Core 2 Duo launched as well, so in servers, desktops, and notebooks, Pentium 4 (aka Netburst ) is officially off the road map."
Or this:"Now it falls to buyers to maintain a vigilant skepticism. While Intel seems to have come to its technological senses, it has not mended its marketecture. The “Core” brand confusingly refers to two unrelated, incompatible architectures; Core Duo and Core Solo are not 64-bit Core Microarchitecture CPUs, but are fairly minor enhancements to the 32-bit Pentium M. Core Microarchitecture marketing reaches for revisionist continuity by crediting the contributions that Netburst made to Core, attempting to paint over Core Architecture’s design goal of repeating none of Netburst’s mistakes." Netburst of course refers to the P4.
Read the rest of Tom's yarn on the P4 here at Infoworld.
Now it's pretty plain that relatively speaking the P4 was a dud that lost ground to AMD. Intel turned to the P3 design to develop the Pentium M, rather than leverage P4. And again they ignored the P4 to develop their new "Core" product line. Try this quote from Tom Yager: "Intel’s first server-targeted core microarchitecture CPU, the Dual-core Xeon Processor 5100 (aka Woodcrest), has made its debut. A client CPU line branded Core 2 Duo launched as well, so in servers, desktops, and notebooks, Pentium 4 (aka Netburst ) is officially off the road map."
Or this:"Now it falls to buyers to maintain a vigilant skepticism. While Intel seems to have come to its technological senses, it has not mended its marketecture. The “Core” brand confusingly refers to two unrelated, incompatible architectures; Core Duo and Core Solo are not 64-bit Core Microarchitecture CPUs, but are fairly minor enhancements to the 32-bit Pentium M. Core Microarchitecture marketing reaches for revisionist continuity by crediting the contributions that Netburst made to Core, attempting to paint over Core Architecture’s design goal of repeating none of Netburst’s mistakes." Netburst of course refers to the P4.
Read the rest of Tom's yarn on the P4 here at Infoworld.
Bloggomania
Blogging gives me another reason to write. As I do want to write, and I want to practise writing, it seems to me that any method is better than no method. Blogging is a style, one that I break regularly. There's an etiquette as well, which I choose to ignore. The point to me is that I can write what I want, when and where I want. Now I always could - and did - do that. However now my scraps of paper are not filed away in a folder but published on the web. Apart from added colour and motion I have gained a small readership. Potentially, anyway. Somehow it's both inspiring and limiting to have this level of openness. Inspiring that what I write will be viewed and critiqued, and limiting in the sense that now what I write is not just for me. So I tend to edit a bit more harshly. Or not. It's my choice, and I am aware of it.
Anyway, most of my recent writing has been in my blogs. I blog about writing, photography, business, cars and bike racing. Plus I rant and rave. Or just share opinions. There's some overlap, but mostly they stay on track. Feel free to critique.
Anyway, most of my recent writing has been in my blogs. I blog about writing, photography, business, cars and bike racing. Plus I rant and rave. Or just share opinions. There's some overlap, but mostly they stay on track. Feel free to critique.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
The science of harmony
The mathematics behind music is almost as interesting as the music itself - well, almost. This caught my eye: "In Western music, harmony--the selection of notes to create a chord--and
counterpoint--how individual notes are connected in time to establish melodic voices--together form the basis for composition. The rules of harmony and counterpoint embody aesthetic norms but also represent constraints on the composer that can sometimes be difficult to reconcile.
Tymoczko (p. 72; see the Perspective by Hook) discusses a mathematical system for organizing the 12 tones of the western scale that makes use of a topological structure called an orbifold, in which chords are points in the topological space and the segments connecting them indicate how chords progress. Examination of the geometry of these spaces provides an understanding of some long-standing puzzles in music theory." It's from Science.
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counterpoint--how individual notes are connected in time to establish melodic voices--together form the basis for composition. The rules of harmony and counterpoint embody aesthetic norms but also represent constraints on the composer that can sometimes be difficult to reconcile.
Tymoczko (p. 72; see the Perspective by Hook) discusses a mathematical system for organizing the 12 tones of the western scale that makes use of a topological structure called an orbifold, in which chords are points in the topological space and the segments connecting them indicate how chords progress. Examination of the geometry of these spaces provides an understanding of some long-standing puzzles in music theory." It's from Science.
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