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Category Archives: Bob Dylan
Daily Links for Thursday, October 1, 2009
Open Source The Linux Foundation Announces Second Annual End User Summit The Summit will take place November 9-10, 2009 at the Hyatt Jersey City on the Hudson and will provide end users and kernel developers a direct connection to one … Continue reading
Dylan to play three nights in Chicago at the end of October
The Fall, 2009, tour schedule for Bob Dylan is up on his website and it includes three nights at the Aragon Ballroom (1106 W Lawrence, Chicago, IL 60640) in Chicago October 29, 30, and 31. What better way to spend … Continue reading
Bob Dylan US Summer tour
Bob Dylan, along with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp, will be playing minor league baseball stadiums in the US this summer. We saw him at the Rochester (NY) Red Wings stadium a couple of years ago and it was a … Continue reading
Bob Dylan to release new album in late April
Rolling Stone is reporting that Bob Dylan will release a new, and yet unnamed, album in late April. According to the article, the record has “a seductive border-cafe feel (courtesy of the accordion on every track) and an emphasis on … Continue reading
Daily Links 12/01/2008 (p.m.)
Bob Dylan | Shop the Bob Dylan Official Store You can never have too much. tags: OB, Bob Dylan, music, clothes Jungle Disk – Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 – JungleDisk “Jungle Disk Desktop Edition lets you store files and … Continue reading
Summer is over
Though technically there’s a bit more than two weeks until Summer ends in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s over for all intents and purposes. In my family that means that school starts for someone. Up until this year it was both … Continue reading
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Dylan to play Prospect Park in Brooklyn on August 12
Bob Dylan will be playing at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, NY, on Tuesday, August 12. See the bottom of the tour page at bobdylan.com for the TicketMaster link and early purchase password.
Daily Links 04/08/2008
Reality Check | Ephraim Schwartz | InfoWorld | Swallowing Yahoo may make Microsoft want to take a nap tags: OB, Microsoft, Yahoo “The times have changed and if Microsoft is to succeed it needs to become innovative and nimble. Of … Continue reading
Dylan touring in Mexico and South America in the next month
See the Bob Dylan tour schedule.
links for 2007-12-18
Cate on Dylan – Music news – Music – Virgin Media “I just thought, ‘I don’t know what this is’. And the more you listen to it, the deeper the music becomes. It is like a great work of art.” … Continue reading
links for 2007-11-28
“I’m Not There” and “Enchanted”: In Love with Bob Dylan and Amy Adams “Though they couldn’t be more different, I’m Not There and Enchanted both work better if you know and love the references folded into their narratives – respectively, … Continue reading
“I’m Not There”
Tonight my daughter Katie and I went to see the new film inspired by Bob Dylan’s life and music I’m Not There, written and directed by Todd Haynes. I’ve been reading about this film for months, and the main angle … Continue reading
links for 2007-11-14
Symphony and ODF IBM’s Lotus Symphony Continues ODF Push “In addition, IBM has loosened its normal product-licensing restrictions and will allow third parties to offer downloads or physical media without requiring special agreements with IBM. Based on the success of … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music, News, Software, Standards
Tagged Bob Dylan, Facebook, Innovation, ODF, ODF Alliance, OOXML, Symphony
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links for 2007-11-12
42 years on, classic Dylan song rolls into YouTube era – 12 Nov 2007 – Internet news – NZ Herald “Eschewing mainstream media, Dylan and his record label Sony BMG have started a viral marketing campaign and a website urging … Continue reading
links for 2007-10-29
1,730 guitarists pay ode to Dylan-India-The Times of India “So you can imagine what happens when 1,730 guitarists jam on a single stage. Strumming Bob Dylan’s epic ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’, these guitarists gathered in a Shillong stadium to knock … Continue reading
A song for everything
This weekend I spent a lot of time working on some forms in support of my daughter’s college applications. One of the applications is due on Thursday, so I needed to finish things up. I went down to the Post … Continue reading
links for 2007-09-09
Dylan, and Yes, I Do Have a Google Alert Dylan lyrics to be studied in schools | The List “Bob Dylan will feature in the curriculum for students in schools across the UK, with the musician’s lyrics to be studied … Continue reading
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links for 2007-09-01
OOXML Once More unto the Breach: Office Open XML Conformance (A Lesson in Claiming Standards Conformance) Stephe Walli further demonstrates why the partial Apple implementation of OOXML is even more partial than we thought. (tags: Apple Microsoft OOXML) ConsortiumInfo.org – … Continue reading
Got the Dylan in Rochester tickets
Sorry about the minimal blogging this week, been busy on a number of items. Anyway, I got three tickets to the Dylan/Costello concert in Rochester, and I CAN’T GO! I knew this when I ordered them. My daughter Katie and … Continue reading
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Dylan + Elvis (Costello)
Some new fall dates for Bob Dylan have just been announced and are about to go on sale. Elvis Costello and Amos Lee will also be performing. Most of these dates are in the northeast US.
links for 2007-08-15
It ain’t me babe but I like how it sounds – Music – Entertainment – smh.com.au “As Dylan prepares to perform in Sydney tonight on the latest leg of his Never Ending Tour, we thought it would be fun to … Continue reading
links for 2007-08-10
Open Source, or Not Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux – News and Analysis by PC Magazine “Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-30
Virtual Worlds, Architecture Where’s Frank Lloyd Wright?: Architecture in Second Life – Kotaku “The Farnsworth House may be one of the most iconic pieces of modern architecture, and it also happens to be fairly unsuitable for habitation: what better place … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Education, Music, News, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Architecture, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Second Life
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links for 2007-07-29
Bob Dylan goes hip-hop- Celebrity-Lifestyle – Indiatimes “The mercurial musician has consented to the first hip-hop remix of one of his classic songs, Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine).” (tags: music dylan)
links for 2007-07-18
Asia Pacific Developers Hot for Games, Mobile, SOA “With its comparatively young developer work force, the Asia Pacific region has three times more developers focusing on game development than North America.” (tags: asia games) Firefox gains at IE’s expense in … Continue reading
Dylan in Cleveland on Saturday
Katie and I drove out to Oberlin College yesterday morning. Nobody was home, so we looked around for a couple of hours, had lunch, and left. On the way home we saw Bob Dylan at the Plain Dealer Pavilion in … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-09
Solaris, Meet Linux Sun Micro to revamp Solaris with Linux features: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance “Sun Microsystems Inc. (NasdaqGS:SUNW – News) is revamping its Solaris operating system, incorporating key pieces of rival Linux software in a move that could … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Bob Dylan, concert, PS3, Second Life, Solaris, Sony, Sun
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links for 2007-06-22
Foundation With Real Money Ventures Into Virtual World – New York Times “For the first time, one of the nation’s largest foundations is venturing into virtual worlds to play host to activities and discussions and explore the role that philanthropy … Continue reading
links for 2007-06-13
The Times They Are A Changin’ Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPL 3 | CNET News.com Torvalds: “I don’t think the GPL 3 is as good a license as (GPL) 2, but on the other hand, I’m pragmatic, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, GPL, Linux, Office 2.0, Solaris
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links for 2007-06-05
Open Source, Open Standards internetnews.com: Open Solutions Alliance Takes Aim at IP Risk “Interoperability, intellectual property and security are among the perceived barriers to adoption for open source software.” (tags: opensource) Open Sources | InfoWorld | IDC: This open source … Continue reading
