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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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(Thursday, February 1)
Great Music Industry Timecapsule Read From Courtney Love (circa 2000)
This is the first time I had come across this, and wow it is an interesting read. It is an article written by Courtney Love for Salon.com about record contracts and the music industry. I saw it on today's most popular del.icio.us posts and read about half of it before I realized it was written back in 2000.
It looks like she mentions her "seven-year contract law California labor code":
I want my seven-year contract law California labor code case to mean something to other artists. (Universal Records sues me because I leave because my employment is up, but they say a recording contract is not a personal contract; because the recording industry -- who, we have established, are excellent lobbyists, getting, as they did, a clerk to disallow Don Henley or Tom Petty the right to give their copyrights to their families -- in California, in 1987, lobbied to pass an amendment that nullified recording contracts as personal contracts, sort of. Maybe. Kind of. A little bit. And again, in the dead of night, succeeded.)
I don't know the law she is referencing, but I assume maybe it means that the longest timeframe a company can keep someone who broke a contract from doing whatever is stated by the contract agreement if they were to terminate it is 7 years. So assuming this, maybe Love backed out of her contract in 2000 and she is unable to record or produce a new album till 2007 (hence why this resurfaced) because of her contract with which ever record company she was with, or maybe this is just in reference to the band Hole (since it looks like Love had a solo cd in 2004).
Regardless, it is a very interesting read about the music industry. I have absolutely no love for it, even though I do buy probably about 2 or 3 albums a week.
It wouldn't say the industry has come a long way since she wrote this, but you can see some glimmer of hope in smaller labels doing better and at least some footprint in iTunes and other music services. Also, with certain TV shows (Gray's Anatomy, the OC, etc) we are starting to see smaller bands that generally would be regulated to the internet start to gain momentum from soundtracks to these shows (which sometimes propels them into larger record company contracts, but at least it is a start).
I would be neat if Love wrote another article sometime in 2007 to reflect back on the last 7 years in the music industry and if she feels it has changed any (for better or worse).
This is definitely worth the read though, and extremely interesting:
Salon.com Technology | Courtney Love does the math
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
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