Archive for September, 2004

The sadly neglected tree-table

Monday, September 20th, 2004

Neglected by HTML, at least. As far as I can tell, there’s no semantic way in HTML to represent a tree-table. A tree can be represented by nested lists, and a table by, well, a table, but there’s no way to combine the two.

Tree-tables are pretty commonly used by software applications, and with […]

First Longwood rehearsal

Friday, September 17th, 2004

Last night was my first rehearsal with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra. I had never heard them play before, so I had no idea what to expect. Here are some of my impressions from the first rehearsal.

The winds and brass (those that were there — some were absent, probably for Rosh Hashana) were quite […]

Fall is nearly here…

Friday, September 10th, 2004

…and all of a sudden my life is busy again.

This year I finally stopped talking about joining a local (non-college) orchestra, and actually did it. I auditioned with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra this Tuesday, and found out last night that I was accepted. I also learned that, as a new member, I might […]

orchestras

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

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New iTunes affiliate program

Friday, September 3rd, 2004

I just read on The Motley Fool website that Apple is starting an affiliate program for iTunes. Now, I’ve never even used iTunes before, but like the new Amazon musical instrument store, this could fit in well with my little project idea. That is, if they have any sort of decent classical music […]

New Amazon store

Wednesday, September 1st, 2004

Wow, Amazon has a new musical instruments section! They must have been reading my mind–this fits in perfectly with a little project I was thinking of starting.