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Panera Wants My Phone Number

Posted on August 28, 2010 by mannd

Like so many other businesses, the coffee/pastry chain Panera Bread has launched a rewards card program.  I was given the card a week or so ago and was told I needed to register it online.  When I went to the … Continue reading →

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Polytonality in Rachmaninoff

Posted on August 25, 2010 by mannd

In previous posts I have argued that Rachmaninoff, the self-proclaimed musical conservative, was not only influenced by his more forward-looking contemporaries, but actually incorporated some of their modern harmonic devices in his music.  Polytonality is the use of two different … Continue reading →

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Harmonic Dissonance in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2

Posted on August 22, 2010 by mannd

My previous blog entry on Rachmaninoff’s concertos may have raised some skepticism amongst those who consider the composer to be, whatever his other merits, a conservative in his musical language. Rachmaninoff himself helped foster this notion with quotes like “I … Continue reading →

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Blogging Project: Analyzing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concertos

Posted on August 22, 2010 by mannd

My blog is littered with uncompleted, overly-ambitious projects. Here is yet another one.  Since I became musically conscious sometime during my childhood, I have been fond of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s music, in particular his piano concertos. I remember tape recording these … Continue reading →

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Rachmaninoff “Piano Concerto No. 5″

Posted on August 11, 2010 by mannd

I was certainly surprised to find on YouTube links to videos of a fifth piano concerto by Sergei Rachmaninoff.  I quickly discovered (after listening for a few seconds) that this was an arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony for piano and … Continue reading →

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Fax Machines Are Stupid

Posted on August 8, 2010 by mannd

It came to me today as a sudden revelation (an “ah-ha” moment) that our fax machine is a total anachronism, like something out of the 19th century.  Here it is the 21st century, and we are still sending back and … Continue reading →

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New ClickIt Coming Soon

Posted on July 31, 2010 by mannd

I’m working on the next version of ClickIt.  ClickIt is an automatic computer document signing program.  It allows batch signing of documents in programs that don’t allow batch signing.  It was originally designed to work with the Allscripts EMR system … Continue reading →

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Blogging From My Droid

Posted on July 29, 2010 by mannd

Yes it’s possible to write a blog post on an Android phone using WordPress for Android.  Why anyone would want to write a post on the Droid’s clunky keyboard is an excellent question.  I suppose if there is something you … Continue reading →

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Emacs Word Wrap Modes

Posted on July 24, 2010 by mannd

I had problems sending posts to WordPress from weblogger on Emacs because of formatting errors. I have been using auto-fill-mode in Emacs to avoid lines extending off the screen. Auto-fill-mode works by inserting newline characters (ASCII 0A, C-j) at the … Continue reading →

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The C++ Way. Part 0.

Posted on July 21, 2010 by mannd

I’ve decided to write a series of posts on what I call “The C++ Way” analogous to “The Ruby Way,” a book and philosophy of the Ruby Language. After programming in C++ for years, I still struggle to think in … Continue reading →

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