Archive for March, 2008

Music Video Friday No. 6

Today we have a trio of performances by one of my favorite artists, Nina Simone.  I was first introduced into her work on the soundtrack for the film Point of No Return (a remake of one of my favorites, the 1990 French film La Femme Nikita).  Her rendition of the American spiritual song Sinnerman was [...]

Music

Music Video Friday No. 5

Today we have trio of videos from one of my favorite groups from the UK, Massive Attack.
Massive Attack was founded in Bristol in 1988.   While you may not have heard of the group themselves, their music has been featured in a number of television shows and movies, including House, Prison Break, The Matrix, and Sliver.
The [...]

Music

Apple Store Tokyo

A friend of mine took this photo of the Apple Store Tokyo, during a recent trip.

Apple, arfore.com

Running JBoss on 10.5

At work I am in charge of running our Macromedia Adobe Contribute Publishing Server.
Since I like to duplicate my work environment on my laptop for local development, I needed to install JBoss 4.0.5.GA.  I won’t go into why we are running such an old version, that’s all Adobe’s fault.
Installing JBoss

Download the JEMS installer for 4.0.5.GA [...]

Mac OS X 10.5, jboss

Music Video Friday No. 4

Today’s video is a collage of various scenes from a whole slew of anime shows. If you watch it closely you will see some scenes from Akira, Wolf’s Rain and Witch Hunter Robin, to name just a few.
The music used is Best of You by the Foo Fighters. This song appeared on the [...]

Anime, Music