My Top 11 Musical Discoveries of 2008 because this one goes to “11″

This past year I discovered quite a lot of music that was new to me. Here’s a recap.

The Hold Steady “Almost Killed Me” and “Separation Sunday” – this group based in Minneaopolis has great lyrics and vocals from Greg Finn. The music is loud and fun as well as funny. This one I discovered via [...]

My favorite live albums

I got to thinking about my favorite live albums so in no particular order: (my initial draft got eaten by Firefox so this one is a little shorter and perhaps more concise)

The Neville Brothers – “Live on Planet Earth” -  a classic New Orleans jamboree with lots of classics, fantastic singing and music [...]

LINUX Blues with Red Hat

For a very long time (especially when I was working for another huge computer company), I resisted the LINUX revolution preferring to use and promote commercial UNIXes (Solaris, HP-UX, OS X,…oh yeah I guess we could include AIX if we were willing to call it UNIX . Now that I am doing lots of [...]

It might turn out to be a good year after all

I am feeling cautiously optimisitic today. A patient (well OK not that patient) 6 year wait seems to have borne fruit. We might be able to expand our apartment sideways which will buy us at least enough time to get kid one and (hypothetical at this point) kid two through day care and kindergarden in [...]

Recently Visited Paris Art Expos – Whirlwind Review

I had a couple of days off (no work and kid w/his grandparents) and profited from the occasion to catch up on the Paris Art Expo scene. Here’s what I saw in the order I saw them:
Musée Cernuschi – “Courtisanes, Part 2″: This one was honestly a little disappointing. I already blogged about the Part [...]