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March. Sunny today, but six inches of snow coming on Friday. April Fools, right. The lake is still frozen, of course.
Not much happening in our world. I have a band on Saturday night, Occidental Gypsy. There's a community meal that evening, so I'm going to feed the band at the meal and give away some tickets. A lot of good music at our theater in April, including the best offerings of the celtic series: Richard Wood, Alasdair Frazer & Natalie Haas, and Bruce Molsky. I have a UBR fundraiser show on Apr 22, a great little Portland band called Olas. They sound like the Gipsy Kings.
JazzFest is about a month away. Second Thursday looks like a good lineup. Ruthie Foster will close out the blues tent, with a Booker piano tribute before that. Plus Michelle Shocked, Lucinda Williams, Cedric Watson, Amanda Shaw. The lineup for Newport Folk Fest is just out and looks great. Decemberists, Amos Lee, Wailing Jennys, the Secret Sisters, Tegan & Sara. Plus the bands I don't know yet. I've made some great discoveries there.
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My desk at work is next to a wall of windows; the light makes me happy. I recently added a second monitor to my sit-stand desk. We are transitioning to virtual desktops which are easy to maintain with the latest software. Virtual machines are not the answer to everything, however. Certainly not as vehicles for small downloadable apps. There's a guy at work, lets call him brother-in-law, because he must be somebody's brother-in-law to still have a job, had the idea to distribute to customers a virtual machine housing a small app. After several expensive consultants who could not configure the thing and after seeing that the distribution size would be about 8 GB, I pulled the plug on that idea and wrote it as a simple Java app, distribution size less that a MG. I like work. It's puzzles all day long, programming puzzles and people puzzles.