Andrys tripping the world

Every day, something surprises, delights, or appalls.

Below is some of that, though most of it leaves me speechless, as you can see.

About Me

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My own sites

  • My travel photography site
  • Visiting Italy 2006 (New, and under construction!)
  • 26 days in Turkey by car
  • My main site, with Machu Picchu PhotoDiary and music links
  • General computer-use links page
  • My Kindle Addiction Blog
  • Find-Classical-Music vendor searchboxes
  • My slow piano music, for unfussy ears
  • My Chopin Nocturne in D-flat Major as soundtrack for silent-short-film entry, The Recluse at the 17th annual Cardiff Screen Festival
        no longer at Cardiff site after a year.  Reaction Pictures has it at YouTube.
     ( Uncompressed version here )

  • My Siloti-Bach as soundtrack on a gentle videoclip of Arturo of Italy.     English version.)       Background/story.
  • Nostalgia: our chorus Grammy, 1992
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  • Blog HomePage

News entries

  • Cultural focus
  • News discussion sites

Current toys

  • Readers: Instantly access your books with Amazon's light >Kindle, wireless 24/7 w/no hourly charges

GREAT TIPS

  • IVR Cheat Sheet - by Paul English - Bypass voice menus

Net Tutorials, How-To's

  • Binary Files from Usenet - by Usenet Monster
  • Slyck's Guide to The Newsgroups

Audio-Video - How-To's

  • Ready for Digital-Only TV in February?
    - a Q&A site with a lot of good info on what the end of analog-tv broadcasting means for us.
  • (My own solution for a small kitchen tv, as my landlord doesn't allow cable tv in my kitchen area.)
  • Maximize your tv reception
  • 720p vs 1080p (includ'g  768p and 1080i) - 'Final' word, 12/5/07
  • Calculating widescreen TV to squarer sizes
  • How Stuff Works - HDTV
  • HDTV vs SDTV sizing oddities
        Illustrations of sizing options
  • HDTV World - CNet's info page
  • DVI-HDMI vs component video
  • HDTV connections info
  • HDTV connections - illustrations
  • Audiovideo connections guide
  • Clive's PC-Audio FAQ
  • Transferring LPs to CDR
  • mp3/wav utilities

Photography

  • Digital photos from slides
    (Or, make them with a scanner!)
  • Michael Bluejay's Battery Guide - Clear
  • Battery University - Outrageously thorough
  • Adobe Photoshop tutorials online - free

Previous Posts

  • Health Care Providers on the Health Care overhaul
  • EARTH, Disney presents - for Earth Day
  • Desperately seeking Leonardo da Vinci
  • Queen Nefertiti and Facial Interpretation
  • "Polypill" made from 5 drugs may cut heart & strok...
  • Some of us can all get along ...
  • Yosuke, the lost parrot, knows his place
  • Anne Kilkenny's letter about Sarah Palin
  • Recent updates to existing entries with no date-ch...
  • That Iraq War Vote and the Judgment Factor

Archives

  • November 2005
  • December 2005
  • January 2006
  • February 2006
  • April 2006
  • June 2006
  • November 2006
  • February 2007
  • April 2007
  • May 2007
  • June 2007
  • July 2007
  • August 2007
  • October 2007
  • February 2008
  • March 2008
  • August 2008
  • September 2008
  • January 2009
  • March 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2010

Classical Music

  • The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross
  • Jessica Duchen
  • IonArts
  • Iron Tongue of Midnight - Lisa Hirsch
  • MMmusing - Michael Monroe on Music, Mind, Meaning
  • Boston Globe's Geoff Edgers
  • Gramophone
  • Music blogs - Alex Ross's list

Entertainment

  • Later

Other site-links

  • Aspens with connected roots, turning in clusters!
  • Nat'l Review on Ann Coulter

Computer worms/viruses

  • Crucial patch for Windows
  • Sober X poses as FBI/CIA

Cultural focus

  • Arts & Letters Daily - by Denis Dutton

NewsSite Links

  • MyDD.com - Direct Democracy
  • Democratic Daily
  • Daily Howler - definitely
  • Jon Swift (Hilarious! wolf in sheep's clothing)
  • Hominid Views - delightful
  • The prolific Digby
  • TalkLeft
  • Steve Clemon's hot insider DC news
  • InsightAnalytical - Was World Media Watch
  • The Agonist
  • Crooks and Liars
  • The Raw Story
  • CorrenteWire
  • Confluence - Riverdaughter
  • Cannonfire
  • Congressional Quarterly - Non-partisan
  • Democratic Underground forums
  • The TPM Cafe
  • FactCheck.Org
  • Media Matters
  • Mediabistro
  • Huffington site news
  • Taylor Marsh
  • Daily Kos (A bit wooly)
  • Romenesko's Media News
  • News Hounds - FoxWatchers
  • TruthOut.org
  • Commondreams
  • Alternet
  • The reaction
  • Drudge (he did start it)
  • Free Republic forum (FR=FarRight) finds news pro & con too.
  • Google News

Transcripts

  • Meet the Press, 11/27/05, frank talk on Iraq, Woodward.

Family blogs, in alpha order

  • Sally.
  • Tara and Song!
  • Whitford.
  • _______________
  • Let me know of any other family blogs!
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Older posts are archived by months (see right-hand column),
with a few "previous posts" linked on the front page of this not-very-active blog.

OTHER blogs or pages
. A Kindle World
. Travel photos (Main page)
    Italy,  Machu Picchu,
    Turkey,   Egypt/Jordan
    (includes Petra)
. Peru PhotoDiary or blog
. Some slow-piano music
. Work history