Had little time to blog recently, but noticed a few musical highlights in Nashville and (yes) Huntsville recently that I’d not recorded. [Post Note - here's a site with links to blues joints all over he joint.] Let’s start with fiddle-players in Nashville. Mentioned the excellent fiddle-player we’d seen with Heath Haynes in Nashville we’d also [...]
Entries from January 2008
Brief Musical Update
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January 25, 2008 at 4:46pm
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More TED Talks
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January 5, 2008 at 9:56pm
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Noticed these two recently … Daniel Goleman author of Emotional Intelligence on the innate good Samaritan reflex on the significance of just noticing, paying attention, rather than being self-absorbed. Rang bells thanks to a recent MoQ.Discuss thread which asked moral questions about finding a “drunk” on the sidewalk. Most impressive is this talk by Isabel [...]
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Nuclear Fuel Depletion
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January 4, 2008 at 8:00pm
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[Post Note - This is the news item that sparked this debate.] In all the debates about energy policy there has been a tendency to consider nuclear fuel as practically limitless for foreseeable needs – with all the downsides of the nuclear option concerned with the costs (capital and energy) in the investment and the [...]
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Charlie Wilson ? No Fear.
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January 3, 2008 at 3:56pm
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Tom Hanks is not sure if Charlie Wilson’s War will be a success. We saw it the night before last, and have to say it was excellent. The Aaron Sorkin / West Wing style works really well with Hanks and Seymour-Hoffman bouncing the Washington one-liners and press-statements off each other and the close-combat camera. And [...]
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10 Million Flies Can Be Wrong
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January 2, 2008 at 8:33pm
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Followed the link to this Dave Snowden post from Johnnie Moore … on the face of it because “we” (in the sense Dave puts it) are recognising that the fragmentory (but interconnected) nature of blog-like technologies is much closer to “real human knowledge” than more formally structured forms. Also that “we” also therefore have a responsibility [...]
