Found this excellent rendition of Charpentier’s Prelude to Te Deum on YouTube. It really made me smile. It was Andrew’s and my wedding processional, and we did have a pipe organ with excellent acoustics, but also a piccolo trumpet. Very regal. Anyway, enjoy this great piece of music. I personally … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Save the Windsor
Melbourne developers are at it again, and this time the target is none other than the historic Windsor Hotel. In a nutshell, they want to gut it, leave the facade and a handful of “heritage rooms”, tear down the attached corner building, and build a huge glass tower. All I … Continue reading
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Twitter spammers, this is getting annoying
Okay. I haven’t done much research, but it’s becoming clear to me that there is some sort of service or software that allows people to “auto-follow” anyone who posts a tweet with some specific keyword(s) in it. Three times in the past twenty-four hours, I’ve been suddenly “followed” by some … Continue reading
EEK! Lawyers are following me!
Seriously. After my last two posts, one of which had the word “lawyer” in the title, got posted to my Twitter feed, I got a notification that I was being followed by a Twitter user whose name is something like “You Need a Lawyer” (that’s not it; I’m not giving … Continue reading
Ralph Lauren, your lawyers are stupid (in my opinion, which is neither libel nor slander, but only my opinion)
It seems that Ralph Lauren was upset that a particular Photoshop disaster of an ad they ran, wherein the model’s head is literally bigger than her pelvis, was singled out for criticism by various sites, including Boing Boing and Photoshop Disasters (technically, it was on PSD first, and then Boing … Continue reading
Another story about Ralph Lauren’s whizzbang law team
I just hit upon this interesting story about Ralph Lauren and their law firm, and the ridiculous treatment one Roxanne G. Elings of Greenberg Traurig, LLC gave in 2006 to a small business who was legally using purchased Ralph Lauren fabric to make things for sale. My opinion of Greenberg … Continue reading →
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