Staff appreciation lunch

I enjoyed reading Eric Nolan's "Self-Centeredness, blogging and voice" -- a mini-history of rap and possible parallels to where blogs have been and heading.

Self-centeredness, blogging and voice The list of tidbits from "The Short Haul" makes the New York Times look a bit like a blog.

Richard Taruskin "Music's Dangers and the Case for Control" (NY Times). I found this article looking for Bach articles in the Times.

Iris Murdoch film

Whoa -- a movie made about Iris Murdoch with Kate Winslet (as the young Iris) and Judi Dench (as the elder Murdoch). Charles Taylor (Salon) writes: " I don't want to spend any more space than is necessary lingering on the movie's faults because, next to the performances of Dench and of Jim Broadbent as Murdoch's husband, the literary critic and novelist John Bayley, those faults are so much chaff. Dench and Broadbent in their scenes together are a painful and loving duet, creating as moving a portrait of marriage as anything the movies have afforded in recent memory."

Friends and a wonderful lunch

I just came back from our staff appreciation lunch held at Downtown, a new hip-and-happening restaurant in Berkeley's burgeoning downtown art district. (The East Bay Express reviewed this place in June.)

On the way back, we ran into some friends from ATDP (Candace, Carrie, Laura, here with Chris). It was good to have my camera on hand.

New Ecco to HTML converter

Art Middlekauf has been working on an Ecco-to-HTML converter. He has a demo of the output from the program (requires IE5 and above to work). Looks neat. I'm very interested in using it -- and adapting the program to output XML (eg, OPML to be compatible with Radio, for instance).

The wonder of small theater

Last night, I went to see Uncle Vanya at La Val's Subterranean Theatre. What struck me most about the play-going experience was being so close to the actors and the stage. I could literally have reached out and touched Uncle Vanya or Yalena or Sonia, breaking into their world. I had never been so physically immersed in a play as I was last night.

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