Roman Geocaching
I was anxious to get going so I quickly selected three geocaches that were closest to the hotel — Forum’s Revival, Coliseum, and Circus Maximus — downloaded the latitudes and longitudes into the Magellan eXplorist GPS and hit the street. It would have been much better if I had done some better planning, reviewed the […]
Behind on the Blog
A colleague at a board meeting in NY this morning reminded me that I am behind in writing about what I learned in Rome. He is right, I am definitely behind but committed to write the stories previously outlined. So much to do, so little time. e-tirement is challenging!
Bargemusic
The taxi ride from the hotel in Manhattan to Brooklyn was a short thirty minutes, although passing by "Ground Zero" was a long and sobering reminder of the fateful day. After dinner at Five Front we headed to the Barge on the East River, an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. The setting was modest with […]
WaveCube
Technical Information: 1. When installed on top of a cheap sound-card (or chip-set), that supports only FM synthesis capability, WaveCube greatly enhances the sound quality during MIDI synthesis. 2. WaveCube is a standard Win95 multimedia software component, that is compatible with both MMSYSTEM (legacy) and DirectSound (new) architectures (both by Microsoft). 3. WaveCube is capable […]
Roman Rendezvous – Introduction
Short stories are usually better than long stories but this past week contained so much to share that it can not be told in one short story. The highlight was when five-hundred of us entered the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel in a rare way — the buildings had been closed to the public and […]