Other Interesting Stuff

Digitizing tapes and LP's

We all have loads of vinyl and tape. If we're lucky, the tape is at least newer than 8-track. Would you believe I never owned and 8-track? One of the few times that I've avoided the "bleeding edge" of technology!

Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data

This site has everything you EVER wanted to know about time, time conversion, the history of time keeping, time zone history, time zone maps, national histories of legal time, civil time concepts, precision time-keeping, time notation and more.

Timezone conversions

Their blurb: Now you can find out the time anywhere in the world with The Time Zone Converter. Convenience: Use the converter to plan International travel, phone calls, meetings and many other uses.

My Desk Explained ... finally!

I am SO glad to have found mention of the following article which was found on the Fresh Mown Hay blog in writing about the FreeMind mind-mapping software:

America After 9/11

There is a paper on the Foreign Policy Research Institute site entitled America After 9/11 by Hon. John F. Lehman. Per that site:

Dr. Lehman was a member of the National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission). He also served as
Secretary of the Navy, staff member to Henry Kissinger on the National
Security Council, and delegate to the Force Reductions Negotiations in
Vienna, Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency. His books include On Seas of Glory (2001), Command of the Seas (1989), Making War (1994), and, with Harvey Sicherman, America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How To Fix Them
(FPRI, 2002). A trustee of FPRI (and former staff member), he is
chairman of J. F. Lehman & Company, a private equity investment
firm. This document is an edited transcript of his remarks to FPRI’s
Annual Dinner in his honor at the Four Seasons Hotel. The 2004 Dinner Booklet/Annual Report is available for download at [the FPRI] website

Personal Democracy Forum

Their teaser:
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Technology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. We envision this site as one hub for the conversation already underway between political practitioners and technologists, as well as anyone invigorated by the potential of all this to open up the process and engage more people in all the things that we can and must do together as citizens.

Cool email signatures

Email signatures, tag lines. Love 'em or hate 'em --- here is a huge, categorized collection of them ranging from philosophy to humor, sports, geeky stuff and more.

Hill Country Community Theatre -- Halloween 2004 Album

The Hill Country Community Theatre (where Jennifer works) had a Halloween appreciation party for the volunteers. There's a photo album here.

Presidential Candidates -- quotes and votes

Yep, this is political, but interesting. Go to Grassfire's 'Quotes and Votes' sheet and do some side by side comparisons. Lots of other good stuff on that page as well.

Johann Pachelbel

If you like Pachelbel's Canon in D then check this site. It touts 32 versions of it, all in .wma format. The blurb:

Johann Pachelbel began his musical instruction under Schwemmer and later at the Universities of Altdorf and Ratisbon. In 1671 Johann moved to Vienna where he became student and deputy organist to Kerll at the Imperial chapel. In 1677 he was organist for one year in Eisenach--the city of Bach's birth eight years later. The following year he moved to Erfurt, where his son, Hieronymus, was born. While in Erfurt he taught Johann Christoph Bach, Sebastian's older brother and guardian in Ohrdruf when the Bach parents died. In 1690 Pachelbel became court organist at Stuttgart. Two years later Johann took his final post, in Nuremburg. Johann Pachelbel's repertory is the stylistic ancestor of J. S. Bach's, particularly his technique of chorale variation. Carl Philipp Emanuel named Pachelbel as a composer whose works his father had admired.

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