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	<title>musings @ musicandmeaning</title>
	
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	<description>"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood." - E. M. Forster</description>
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		<title>Beethoven is listening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I realized that I did not have any Beethoven string quartets on CD, or really, much of his chamber music.  Last week, I consulted my music list to see if there was something I could start with. (Every time I hear something I like but don&#8217;t recognize it or have a recording of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still rings true three years later</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time updating old HTML code, or as the case may be, reverting back to it (thank you, Microsoft Outlook).  It reminded me of this oldie but goodie comic from Alan Foreman in 2006: &#34;Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design&#34; (language may be NSFW).
I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the road for WordPress 2.0.x</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress team had announced long ago that the WP 2.0.x branch would be supported until the year 2010, but things change &#8212; and as of July 30, 2009, the official support behind the 2.0.x branch ceased.
I guess I&#8217;m a little disappointed but not too surprised.  I was just telling my friend E^3 last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answer July</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books, literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the season, here&#8217;s a poem by Emily Dickinson:
 
The poem is still under copyright (it was written circa 1862 but not published until 1935), so the above is an embedded page from the book The Poems of Emily Dickinson from Hayes Barton Press (direct link to page in case you can&#8217;t see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcasts (mostly radio shows) to which I listeneth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had Juice open, and realized that I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever talked about podcasts here.
I&#8217;m sure there are a gazillion of them out there, and if I browsed around enough, I&#8217;d probably find way more than I have time for.  As it stands now, I subscribe to a bunch of podcasts but skip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘The steering wheel has a cat on it’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, I ended up on the Craigslist blog and found a reference to this catbus ad (or shall I say &#8220;ad&#8221;), which was featured in the Best of Craigslist.  I rarely visit Craigslist and I had never been to the Craigslist blog before, so it was completely by chance that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fullerton and Long Beach Dave Brubeck Quartet recordings and “These Foolish Things”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1958, Columbia Records released Jazz Goes to Junior College, the last of the Dave Brubeck Quartet&#8217;s live &#8220;college&#8221; albums (and the second from Columbia).  It featured recordings from Fullerton Junior College and Long Beach Junior College (both in Southern California) in 1957, with Brubeck (piano), Paul Desmond (alto sax), Joe Morello (drums) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping in to say hi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi folks,
How are things?  I know it&#8217;s been a while &#8212; hope you are all doing well.  Thanks to the dozen of you folks who are still subscribed to the blog feed (you know who you are). I&#8217;m still here and will be back with some new posts shortly.
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		<title>WordPress 2.2 released</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 13:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After playing with WordPress 2.1 a little, I decided not to upgrade the rest of the blogs I manage, but wait until the next major release&#8230;and now it&#8217;s here.  I will likely try WordPress 2.2 soon and see how the changes (including over 200 bug fixes) work out.  I&#8217;m hopeful.
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		<title>DP, LV and CC*</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe April is almost here.  It&#8217;s been a busy three months.  Aside from spending most of my time on the usual websites+work formula, I&#8217;ve been volunteering at Distributed Proofreaders.  DP corrects errors and typesets and formats texts for the free electronic library Project Gutenberg.  
DP was on my [...]]]></description>
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