Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
I realized that I had asked a question about the President using PowerPoint a couple of days ago and practically the next day watched a former Vice President do exactly that. Except he wasn’t using PowerPoint, he was using Keynote. Yep. That’s right. The creator of the internet uses a Mac.
And the South Park episode [...]
Loading ...If you want to know why, go see An Inconvenient Truth. I’m super serial.
The term hacker has been used to refer to someone who breaks into systems or wreaks havoc with computers as their weapon. But among the tech crowd, the term hack refers to a “quick-and-dirty” solution to a problem, or a clever way to get something done. And the term hacker is taken very much as [...]
CEOs build trust and get money from shareholders by making quarterly PowerPoint presentations detailing their past successes and future plans. Why wouldn’t the President of The United States of America use this simple and powerful technology to build trust and gain support from US citizens?
“The miracle of playing is all I need.” -Keith Jarrett
From Introducing ad scheduling:
Today we released ad scheduling, an advanced campaign management feature that allows you to determine when your ads run.
I’ve been waiting for Adwords ad scheduling for a long time.
Loading ...Billboard: Saying “like” makes you sound dumb.
Master Chunyi Lin in the news:
More Spring Forest Qigong from one of my favorite companies, Learning Strategies
Most people tag things based on subject or meaning. That’s really useful to find information fast. But I thought it would be a good idea to ask myself, “Why am I searching for this information? What’s the benefit I want to get out of it?”
So now if I go searching through my personal database for [...]
The diminished scale is an extremely creative tool. Due to the diminished chord’s symmetrical structure of stacked minor thirds, we have two options of diminished scales: half step-whole step and whole step-half step.
A major benefit to this scale is that you only have to learn it in three different keys since it repeats itself every [...]
…about not participating in traditionally enjoyable experiences and creating the illusion that happiness can be found in alternative less enjoyable experiences. The degree to which people around you try to emulate your alternative lifestyle and fail determines how cool you are. You’re only as cool as people wish they were.
From Buddha’s SEO:
The essence of SEO is suffering
All traffic is transitory
There is a rank beyond page rank
No ban is permanent - all pages get reborn
From MicroPersuasion: Blog Pioneer Robert Scoble Moves On
Dave Winer: Scoble moves
And Scoble, himself: Correcting the Record about Microsoft
I’ll watch where he goes.
Are you carbon neutral yet? Al Gore has wiped away his carbon footprint. The World Bank aims to be carbon neutral through buying only green energy. read more. Also see CarbonNeutral.net
Participants in the study were presented with 50 to 150 random elements on a monitor. Ten of the 12 participants improved their ability accurately to guess the number of elements immediately following TMS treatment to the left anterior temporal lobe, a skill that receded an hour later, the newspaper said.
I’ve got to try this! I’ve [...]
From The Debate over Net Neutrality:
Our CEO Eric Schmidt believes this situation is so important that he has written an open letter to Google users asking them to speak out on this issue. We urge all of you to read his letter and call your representative in Congress at 202-224-3121. For more information on the [...]
From Pubsub Implosion:
Blog search engine PubSub had massive layoffs today after last minute merger discussions with knownow fell apart. It looks like a shutdown is imminent.
This really sucks. I’ve used pubsub for a long time now. I even discovered a sordid leak for an important friend just two days ago. So pubsub has proven its [...]
From Implanting a magnet in your fingertip adds a sixth sense:
This morning’s Wired News has a fascinating article on the practice of implanting small, strong rare-earth magnets in one’s ring-finger. The result is a kind of “magnet sense” — people who’ve had the implant report that they can tell when a wire is live and [...]
From Totally amazing mutant ears:
I just saw X-men 3 and decided that if I was a mutant, my name would be “Waveform”. I would have the power of super-hearing and the ability to create any sound just by opening my mouth, e.g., the brown note.
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
Really tired of following people and immediately getting a DM pitch. (>_<) 5 hrs ago
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