21 Thursday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
Bah, I’ve found someone with a bigger music collection than mine. At 3 million records and 300,000 CDs Paul Mawhinney has a slightly larger collection than I have, but he is selling it on eBay. I might have to just get in there a make a bid (I wish).
If you’d like to know more about Paul Mawhinney and this amazing collection then checkout an article here and Record Rama here.
del.icio.us tags: music, collection, CD, records, sale, eBay
20 Wednesday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
An online MP3 war seems to be developing here in the UK. With word that Amazon will arrive in the UK this summer. Play the online music/games retailer have just introduced PlayDigital with DRM free tracks from EMI and Indies (and probably others to come) at prices below that of iTunes (65p a track and £4.95 for an album). Today HMV have launched their service which offers unlimited Streaming at £5.99 per month as well as track purchases from as low as 49p, although chart prices appear to range between 79p and £1.
20 Wednesday Feb 2008
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The online journal ebizQ are providing a webinar on ‘BAM:The Killer App for CEP’. Although SeeWhy would suggest that this is not exclusively the domain of Complex Event Processing, but any tool around Event Processing with a real-time capacity. It would seem that SeeWhy is not the only organisation that sees how BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) is a natural partner for Event Processing as SeeWhy has produced an extension to its real-time Business Intelligence platform called ‘SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM’.
The webinar is sponsored by SL who provide a real-time style dashboard so will give some basic visibility of business activity, but doesn’t have the richness of SeeWhy’s intelligence or ability to feedback into the source system such as jBPM or event a third party.
17 Sunday Feb 2008
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We’re back from JBoss World in Orlando now – and a few pictures of the trip can be found at Flickr: JBoss World Orlando. A very busy trip indeed with only an hour in the sunshine at the end of the conference before heading back to the airport. For SeeWhy initial impressions are that the conference was a success, but it is still early days to really tell. Thankyou to all who came to see our stand and talk about Event Driven BI and the new jBPM BAM solution. Plus a special thanks to David Barnes at Packt publishing and Matt Cumberlidge the brilliant author of the book Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM.
Links to articles mentioning SeeWhy from JBoss World:
14 Thursday Feb 2008
Posted in Technology
Over the years the number of people who attend conference presentations and have laptops out to take notes has grown and grown – understandable given how laptop prices have dropped. But watching a presentations here at JBoss World Orlando, has left me thinking that there is an opportunity to be had in terms of allowing peoples laptops to show and record what is being shown on the presenters screen, and allow the laptop user to annotate as things went along. After all if you’re in a medium sized conference suite amongst a see of upright laptop monitors it can be hard to see the presenters screen clearly. The basic idea isn’t exactly new either after all web meeting tools such as GoToMeeting pretty much do this. The only difference is that the server would need to run on the presenter’s computer equipment through a local wireless hub.
13 Wednesday Feb 2008
Posted in General
I managed to catch a film I’ve been meaning to see for sometime on a flight to Orlando, that being Rendition (IMDB here). The film certainly lived up to expectation, with a fine performance by Jake Gyllenhaal, and brilliantly muted Reese Witherspoon. The heart of the story is the question of whether Rendition achieves anything? As Douglass (Gyllenhaal) says in thevfilm : In all the years you’ve been doing this, how often can you say that we’ve produced truly legitimate intelligence? Once? Twice? Ten times? Give me a statistic; give me a number. Give me a pie chart, I love pie charts. Anything, anything that outweighs the fact that if you torture one person you create ten, a hundred, a thousand new enemies.
Recommended viewing.
11 Monday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
Whilst in the UK the British Oscars (the Baftas) have been award the US have been celebrating music with the Grammy’s. It looks like Amy Winehouse has cleaned up pretty well with (ironically) Rehab (from the Back to Black album). Its good to see that Alison Krauss and Robert Plant also picked a gong for their work together – a stunning album in the form of Raising Sand.
On the Baftas side, again music inspired films did well with gongs going to La Vie En Rose (also called La Mome) which is about the life of Edith Piaf – a little justice after having part of the film slaughtered for a mobile phone advert. Plus Control the bio of Ian Curtis of Joy Division.
Full the full list of nominees and winners in 110 categories go to http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/ and for the smaller number of Baftas here.
09 Saturday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
Exciting news! The Delays third album and first for Fiction records will be ‘Everything’s The Rush’, out 28th April. The first single from the album is ‘Hooray’, out 21st April.
06 Wednesday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
It must be a slow news day, as the following new item about differences in music preferences have a geographical factor made the main news bulletin. The BBC news site has the details at ‘Music ‘beats faster’ in the north‘.
05 Tuesday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
Jesse Malin is following Cat Power with a Covers record called "On Your Sleeve" to be released through One Little Indian in April. The CD will have 14 tracks with three more via iTunes.
Jesse will be on the road again in the coming months to promote the album as well.
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