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10/09/2009
  • Tweetie for iPhone:

    Tweetie 2 Icon The first version of Tweetie for iPhone was a great Twitter client, best of class at the time. Other Twitter apps have been improved beyond what version 1 offered in various ways, but Tweetie was still best overall. It was so good I preferred using the iPhone over my computer for reading and tweeting. The iPhone version of Tweetie was better than the Mac version.

    Tweetie version 2 blows version 1 and everything else away! There’s so much they got right it’s hard to explain. I have a couple of quibbles with the new version that are so minor, so deep, deep under what most users would ever notice, that I’d look like the anal retentive I must surely be.

    Suffice it to say, if you’ve got an iPhone, pay the damn $2.99 for Tweetie. It’s fantastic!

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06/24/2009
  • a turtle’s dream by abbey lincoln:

    maybe, just maybe, the best. lyrics. ever.

    often I sing when I’m all alone,
    and no one can see me but me.
    i think and wonder what i am
    and how i came to be.

    i can swim the ocean,
    and it’s deep and wide,
    and in the house above me
    abide.

    maybe one day i’ll fly like an eagle,
    fly like a bird and go and go.
    soar like an eagle,
    walk like a lion,
    although it won’t be i know.

    but i can swim the ocean,
    and it’s deep and wide,
    and in the house above me
    abide.

    i guess the time has come for me to go.
    and look around for something, oh,
    just moving in my house you know.
    moving slowly is not really bad,
    moving slowly you see
    the wonders of the deep,
    just waiting there for me.

    and i can swim the ocean,
    and it’s deep and wide,
    and in the house above me
    abide.

    and in the house above me
    abide…

    of course, abbey sings the hell out of it too!

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06/18/2009
  • these buds for you:

    these buds for you
    click photo to enlarge (@flickr.com)
    while i didn’t actually buy flowers at the farmers market, these did catch my eye…

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05/28/2009
  • Beatrice:

    One day I’d like to do a gig where every song we play is a woman’s name. “Simone”, “Jeannine”, “Dolores”, you get the idea. The first (or last) tune would have to be Sam River’s “Beatrice.” Here’s a version by the Jason Parker Quartet:

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05/25/2009
  • Honoring Black World War II Veterans:

    Nice NBC segment about an effort to remember and honor black veterans who served in World War II in segregated units, and whose service has largely been ignored.

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05/12/2009
05/10/2009
  • santa barbara daisies:

    santa barbara daisies
    click photo to enlarge (@flickr.com)
    My 35mm camera has been unused for at least ten years, and i haven’t joined the DSLR age just yet. I miss the smell of darkroom chemicals, dodging, burning in.

    OTOH, I carry a camera everywhere I go. Well, it’s really an iPhone. I think of it as a phone, a hand-held computer. Rarely as a camera. But I came across a portfolio of iPhone photography recently, so I’ll have to focus a bit more. Focus, get it? Oh yeah, can’t really focus the camera. But it can handle a bit of onboard processing.

    So here’s a photo of the daisies currently abloom in my yard. Surreal cool…

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04/28/2009
  • First 100 Days on Flickr:

    Nice set of photos documenting the first 100 days of the Obama administration:

    I like that we’re all invited along for the ride and also the continued embrace of social media. This is what Web 2.0 is really all about!

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04/21/2009
04/20/2009
  • Trio 3:

    Nice piece by Oliver Lake (ts), Reggie Workman (b) and Andrew Cyrille (d):

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