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 also featured in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. Two of today’s videos are from the Montreux Jazz Festival which is held each year in Montreux, Switzerland. The third one is of her performance in 1968 at the Bitter End Cafe in Greenwich Village.
Feelings
from the Montreux Jazz Festival (1976)
My Baby Just Cares For Me
House of the Rising Sun and Go To Hell
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 songs featured here are Teardrop, Angel, and Protection. Teardrop, featured on the album Mezzanine and used in the television show House, features vocals by Elizabeth Fraser, the lead singer for the Scottish pop band the Cocteau Twins. Angel, also from the album Mezzanine, features the vocals of roots reggae artist and songwriter Horace Andy. You might find this song familiar as it was featured in a wide variety of television episodes and movies, including The Matrix, Firewall, The West Wing, and Third Watch. Protection from the album Protection showcases the vocals of Tracey Thorn, best known as part of the duo Everything But the Girl.
Teardrop
Angel
Protection
A friend of mine took this photo of the Apple Store Tokyo, during a recent trip.
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 from the JEMS Installer Downloads page at jboss.org.
- Execute the installer:
java -jar jems-installer-1.2.0.GA.jar - If you get asked to allow java to talk through the firewall, choose Allow.
- The default installation location is: /Applications/jboss-4.0.5.GA
It will create the directory if it doesn’t exist already.
- During the install process choose the Advanced install method. This allows you to pick your database environment, as well as making the process of securing the JMX Console and JBoss Web Console much easier.
Starting JBoss
- Open a terminal
- Goto the install location binary directory (I used the default)
/Applications/jboss-4.0.5.GA/bin/ - execute run.sh
./run.sh -b 127.0.0.1 & - You will see the output of the startup process show up in the terminal window.
Stopping JBoss
- Open a terminal
- Goto the install location binary directory
cd /Applications/jboss-4.0.5.GA/bin - Run the shutdown script (don’t forget to authenticate!)
./shutdown.sh –server=localhost:1099 –shutdown -u admin -p password
Notes
- The default port for the HTTP connector is 8080
- The SSL connector is disabled by default
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 album Skin and Bones, which was released on Rosewell/RCA label on 2006-11-07.