Artworks

There is an Article talking about art on the silicon in silicon chips. It refers to the Silicon ZooWeb Site.

Network Problems

One of my clients is having some network probems. It is a really strange one… It is only when I tried a few strange things today that I found where the issue is. For redundancy we are using two different IP addresses on a system. If a connection to one fails we then use the other IP address. Now, testing using one wireless carier has no problem. When using another carier only one of the IP addresses work. This is very strange.

IMAX – Cyberworld 3D

Whilst listening to my music player, I heard a the opening bars from a piece of clasical music, and placed these bars immediately. They were used as the opening bars in the Imax movie Cyberworld 3D in the segment called ‘Tonight’s Performance’. It just so happens that I am one of the few people in the world to have that part of the movie on DVD, so I recognised it immediately.

That section was placed onto a demo real for REZN8 in Hollywood, and I was given a copy of the DVD when I did some consulting for them. I have since worked with the producer that produced that segment.

Music:

Jackson Browne’s The Road. Not a bad sounding song. I love ‘The Load Out/Stay’ a lot more than this song thogh. ‘The Load Out’ is about packing up after a concert. Having worked on a few productions at school, I can relate to what he is singing about in that song.

Last year (and recently re-discovered) I found the song ‘Light as the breeze’ by Billy Joel. The lyrics are, um, interesting. The lyrics have to be carefully listened to in order to work out what he is talking about. The song is on the album ‘Greatest Hits Vol III’.

I am listening to Neil Diamond’s Greatest Hits. Until I listened to his Greatest Hits I really did not have much love of his music. Listening to it gave me a new appreciation of the music. So many clasic songs.

Books

Back on the 22nd of last month I mentioned that I had ordered a couple of books from Angus and Robertson. Well, today I got an email saying that one of these books had been backordered. Which is what I got told on the 22nd. So I rang them and they told me that the book was in transit from the USA. Pity. Otherwise I would have just paid Amazon.COM to get the book in. Why is it that so many books are unavailable in this country. The other book should be dispatched early next week.

I will publish a review here of both books when I finally receive them. Sometime in the next nine-twelve months I would guess, given this performance. I had hassles with my last order with them too. That book was recommended to me, and I certainly did not feel it was worth buying.