Prelude to the Easter service, contemplating the renewal of hope that accompanies the season. A combination of a rising ostinato paired with a vaguely middle-eastern pastoral melody (recorded 12 April 2009.)
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I finally finished up the move of all my blog postings to this new site. Fixed all the internal links, tweaked the formatting, and all. Please let me know if you encounter any issues. Welcome to my new space! This space consolidates some of my other activities into a single unified “brand.” Namely, I needed a real home for my album “Off the Path,” which will be available shortly for download or CD purchase, and a way to associate it more closely with my podcast “Spontaneous Reflections.” My previous blog home – http://auburnmarshes.spaces.live.com – was failing to meet some of my needs – for analytics, for comment moderation, and just for plain old professionalism. This new site integrates all of these activities and gives me a fresh look as well! I hope you enjoy it and visit often. Please update your blog rolls, feed lists and favorites. As you know, I’m a big fan of the iPhone, in part because of the simplicity of the user interface. You don’t often get lost in a sea of advanced features and configurations – they simply aren’t there! While this is a relief most of the time, once in a while you run into something tricky. For me, it’s been syncing calendars between Deanna and I. We each use Microsoft Office Outlook on separate computers, and view each other’s schedules using the built-in calendar publishing features there. However, now we each have iPhones, and while the iPhone can handle multiple Outlook calendars, it doesn’t pick up shared ones for some reason. After a bit of research and some ineffective fiddling with Google calendars, I found a simple and elegant solution: Sign up for a free account on Plaxo. Plaxo is a social networking site but you don’t have to use those features to take advantage of a great multi-calendar sync solution. On my computer I downloaded the Outlook extension that synchronizes my local calendar to one I created on Plaxo called “Jonathan”, and on Deanna’s computer I did the same with a calendar named “Deanna”. Then I just configured the respective Outlooks to synchronize with these new calendars. Voila, now we each have a native Outlook calendar synchronized to each other. In iTunes you can enable synchronizing these now-native calendars to the iPhone. The Plaxo experience is very smooth, even when I got an error message on the first sync, it automatically tried again after asking whether it could engage a more verbose logging mode (which it will shut off automatically after a few days without further error.) And it scales out to Google, Yahoo, etc. calendars as necessary. Two thumbs up so far! This construction on this site is nearing completion. Please feel free to leave comments if you find mistakes or anything that isn’t working properly. Only remaining iterms: I have yet to move blog posts from 2008 and earlier into this system, and to do a permanent redirect on the old podcast. Please check out my blog at http://auburnmarshes.spaces.live.com or the existing podcast at http://central-park-studio.com/podcast
This lecture is on ABC: Arthropods, Butterflies & Climate and will be presented by Dr. Arthur Shapiro Friday April 24th. Music starts at 7PM, lecture at 7:30. See you there! After a trip to Bodega Bay, watching the breeze sway the beach grass in the dunes. |
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Jason and I are again performing as the “opening act” for the 
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