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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Ben Folds

March 28, 2007 at 11.41

Ben Folds played last night in the Burruss Hall auditorium on campus. I have known about and listened to Ben Folds for quite some time (when he was still with his Five), but I’m not too familiar with a lot of his music right now. Folds is an extremely talented musician, and that may be … (Continue reading →)

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The Major Key

March 23, 2007 at 01.06

Patrick Wolf‘s latest album The Magic Position is super-catchy eighties-throwback clap-along fun! Every time I hear the title track, I smile. The video is great, too, especially when he does his little double step at the beginning of the chorus. I think Wikipedia hit it on the head with their folktronica classification.

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Parallels

March 22, 2007 at 00.38

I recently reinstalled OS X, created a Windows partition with Boot Camp, and installed Parallels. I normally wouldn’t have done that, but there are some Windows-only programs that we need for classes, most notably LogicWorks. This screen shot should speak for itself.

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Lost

March 22, 2007 at 00.12

… is what I feel like the writers of the show are right now. An as-yet-to-be-seen magical BOX?! Ahhh!

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del.icio.us Links

March 18, 2007 at 20.45

I have added a del.icio.us “thingy” that posts my daily del.icio.us links to my blog. I have been trying to add a pithy description to each of my links so as to explain them in a little more detail than is possible with just the page name. Enjoy.

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