Beginning with, as one staff member described them, "every opera which Verdi ever conceived any part of in French," the Music Library's goal is to make its entire collection of Verdi first editions available online by 2013, the bicentennial of the composer's birth.

Keeping track of passwords sucks. We may be moving – ever so slowly – towards some sort of acceptable centralized identity authentication scheme, but in the here and now I bet you have to manage a lot of passwords. I tried several password managers before settling on KeePassX. It wasn't a hard choice because only KeePassX offered me the set of features that I was looking for in a password manager.

The never ending economic growth within a finite planet is basically impossible. A child can understand that. But the belief in economic growth bringing peace and prosperity to everyone is tough enough. How is this mystification possible?

Recently I've been dealing quite a bit with ColdFusion from an infrastructure point of view -- clustering, monitoring, system tuning etc. One particular thing I (and I know of at least some others) have found missing was an easy to use and realistic way of figuring out how much memory a particular ColdFusion variable really uses.

Social networks of various kinds have been one of the great Internet success stories of the last few years. Facebook, probably the premier example, boasts of having more than 350 million members worldwide. Even a broken-down old crock like me has a Facebook page, and it has been fun to reconnect with some old friends I haven't seen in many years.

The Honda CR-Z has not even landed in showrooms, and already we are hearing rumors about a new, bigger hybrid sports coupe in Japan. At a recent chance meeting, a Honda insider revealed that company is busy working on a next generation hybrid sports coupe that will dwarf the all-new CR-Z in performance.

Pledge Music, a Direct to Fan music company, has signed a deal with UK punk group Underground Heroes to "offer fans the chance to be part of the making and release of their brand new album, alongside a wide range of exciting premium incentives which include unprecedented access to the band & exclusive merchandise."

As you're writing your content or joining in conversations via social media, are you aware of who might be reading, observing and taking notice? Many of the corporate blogs and personas I see in social media are transparent, but perhaps a little too forward. It's important to keep in mind that the primary audience isn't your entire audience online.

I spent the last couple of days attending a "results-based writing" course hosted by my university. The main aim was to learn some things about writing concisely for scientific papers and finding a good structure for my thesis. However, the lessons are applicable to all many kinds of writing.

Social Media tools suck. On the one hand, it's kind of nice that interoperation is possible at all, but on the other it's a silly chain with many unnecessary points of fail.

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