Someone told me about the Wellington International Ukelele Orchestra and that is them above. Ukulele is like the banjo, you can’t take sad lyrics seriously.
Well, I bought a Uke and brought to Kuwait for mostly everyone else to play.
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Data Rot
Don’t say I didn’t warn you! Will you children or grandchildren be able to see the photos you are taking now?
So every five or ten years, you should move it onto a different format, like from VHS tape to DVD. And that’s fine, but then DVD is already obsolete, there’s Blu-ray, and so what’s going to happen in another 10 years?
Making lots of backups is good advice, and on different formats, different places; consider paper as an archival medium. Some paper we have has lasted thousands of years. If Moses had gotten the Ten Commandments on a floppy disk, it would never have made it to today.
Read the full interview here on Pogue’s Posts at the New York Times. or click (more…)
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British Museum – Shah ‘Abbas
Hmm, I’m flying through London and will have a 9 hour stopover so maybe I should go see this? But the weather is going to be very British.
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Hi-tech is distracting our brains
From the Guardian
A study has shown that one in five suffers very badly due to the distractions triggering our brain and ending up with us procrastinating.
Here is a good post with recommendations on how to cope with multitasking and other issues.
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Ansel Adams on Visualization
The Key to a Photograph from Ansel Adams from SilberStudios.Tv on Vimeo.
From Marc Silber
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Eat Red Meat and Die Young
A recent major study says that
Over a 10-year period, people who ate the most red meat every day (about 62.5 grams per 1,000 calories per day, equivalent to a quarter-pound burger or small steak per day) had about a 30 percent greater risk of dying compared with those who consumed the least amount of red meat.
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The red meat in the study included all types of beef and pork, including bacon, cold cuts, ham, hamburgers, hot dogs, and steak, as well as meat in pizza, chili, lasagna, and stew.