In which I track down the sad story behind one of the chickadee’s favourite songs, reignite a love for South West Louisiana and Austin Texas, and learn about the very bad behavior of a respected journalist. In one of the interesting asides that make the Chickadee such entertaining company, she mentioned in KL last week…
Brilliant new art gallery and cafe in downtown KL – best coffee in Chinatown, and coming soon, the best steak in the city! Now some may call me a little predisposed to this joint, as it is owned by the little chickadee (L) and her talented husband (K). That notwithstanding, it’s a huge improvement to…
Over twenty-five years of intensive traveling, I must have made (I roughly calculate) more than a thousand trips to Heathrow and back. You would have thought there was little in the limo or minicab business that I had not seen in that time, but on my way to the aerodrome this trip I encountered a…
Apple’s all-out assault on Android around the world is Google’s biggest problem by far. And on the day that Steve Jobs retires, it’s looking bad for Google/Motorola, Samsung and HTC. Very bad…… In the last post on this subject, I covered Google’s problems with Oracle, and noted that the Apple situation was likely to be…
Google’s Android problems with Microsoft and GNU might seem bad enough. But they are chickenfeed compared to the trouble they are in with Oracle… In the prior post on this subject, I covered Google’s troubles with Microsoft and the Linux license. I described these as relatively benign, although the problems may have seemed (and are) quite severe. …
Stride piano. Something that you don’t hear every decade. The second album I ever bought, (after Astral Weeks), was called ‘The Jazz Piano’, and featured Willie ‘the Lion’ Smith, as well as Art Tatum, Earl Hines and many others. All those three were great exponents of stride piano, a genre that is almost never now…
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