For the past seven weeks, I’ve been using a USB turntable to digitalize our old vinyl records. So far, I’ve done 41 LPs, with about another sixty to go. We haven’t played the LPs for at least fifteen years, so the process is a rediscovery for me – and proof yet again of how, when [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Canada Line stories are missing the point
Posted in British Columbia, Bruce Byfield, Canada Line, Personal, Vancouver, skytrain, tagged Bruce Byfield, Personal, Uncategorized, British Columbia, Vancouver, skytrain, Canada Line on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I ride the buses at least as often as I do a private car, so I’m as pleased as anyone with the opening of the new Canada Line on the Skytrain system. But I do wish that when the media or casual conversation mentions the new rapid transit line, they would focus on what matters.
To [...]
Oysterband at St. James Hall, 13 August, 2009
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Personal, concert, folk music, folk rock, music, oysterband, tagged Bruce Byfield, Personal, Uncategorized, music, folk music, oysterband, folk rock, Meet You There, concert on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do you get the sense of history repeating,
Have you made the same mistakes again?
Can’t you see me smiling in the bathroom mirror?
It’s a greeting from the beast within.
- Oysterband, “Walking Down the Road with You”
Over the years, Oysterband has provided some of my more memorable concert experiences. A few days after hearing their rocked-up version [...]
Written tics
Posted in Bruce Byfield, George Orwell, Harry Turtledove, Personal, journalism, writing, tagged Bruce Byfield, Personal, Uncategorized, journalism, writing, George Orwell, Harry Turtledove on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I like to say that the secret of writing well is an understanding of structure. This emphasis on structure probably explains why I am quick to pick up on any writer’s tics – the favorite phrases that they overuse, and fall back on for an easy means of expression.
Some tics belong to a group of [...]
Where are the free software news sites?
Posted in Blogging, Bruce Byfield, Free Software, Personal, journalism, open source, writing, tagged Bruce Byfield, Personal, Uncategorized, journalism, Free Software, open source, writing, Blogging, FOSS on August 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Nine months ago, Linux.com stopped publishing. Four months later, the announcement came that its web address had been bought by the Linux Foundation. The change wasn’t the end of independent news about the free and open source software (FOSS)community, but it has left a gap that is still unfilled. And, although as a ex-stringer for [...]
The artist and the gallery owner
Posted in British Columbia, Bruce Byfield, Personal, Vancouver, tagged Bruce Byfield, Personal, Uncategorized, British Columbia, Vancouver, art galleries on August 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, I was talking with the owner of a Northwest Coast gallery when an artist entered carrying an unprotected mask. I instinctively moved away, partly because I could see that the artist was going to try to sell the mask and business needs privacy, but mainly because I knew that he wasn’t going to succeed, [...]
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