February 2010

Sim­ply put…A clas­sic. Ken Burns did a film project on jazz for PBS. Here is a link to the piece on Duke Ellington. 

I need to treat this post as a sticky note because I will prob­a­bly come back and post more as I learn more and develop clear thoughts and posi­tions.  Gen­er­ally before I com­ment on some­thing, I like to have as many, if not all, of the facts. I, almost embar­rass­ingly, have to admit that I […]

I can’t lay claim to that title. It’s actu­ally drawn from a great talk by 37 Sig­nals‘ David Heineimeier Hans­son for Stan­ford University’s Entre­pre­neur­ial Thought Lead­ers Lec­ture Series. Whether you hold an MBA or not, I think this is worth an hour of your time. Though the talk is about busi­ness, and stim­u­lates a lot […]

Clear­ing demon­strat­ing my inter­est in the new mobile oper­at­ing sys­tem being rolled out – some­time this year – by Microsoft, I thought I’d share out this video (a bit blurry) on a feature-rich Bing map appli­ca­tion that will be part of the upcom­ing Win­dows Phone 7 OS expe­ri­ence. Clearly, Microsoft is try­ing to keep pace […]

There are a num­ber of iconic cul­tural fig­ures that I know very lit­tle about … if any­thing at all. Jimi Hen­drix is one of the. I was headed to work on the bus yes­ter­day with my Zune in tow, as usual. I had the Zune on shuf­fle, and up pops Foxey Lady by Jimi Hendrix. […]

I’m talk­ing about Win­dows Mobile 7 (WinMo 7). As many of you know, I have been eye­balling Apple com­put­ers and Google Android-powered mobile phones. How­ever, my haunted Zune issues notwith­stand­ing, I am still will­ing to give Microsoft a shot in the per­sonal com­puter, per­sonal music player and mobile phone are­nas. I upgraded my Toshiba laptop […]

In between head nod­ding to elec­tron­ica and neo-soul, I lis­ten to a lot of jazz. I like both instru­men­tal and vocal jazz. Lately, I have become increas­ingly enam­ored with jazz vocal­ists. Now, while I don’t have an ency­clo­pe­dic knowl­edge of the genre, I do know some names beyond the giants. One of my favorite vocalist, […]