The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival is going on at Marine Park this weekend. It looks like Joey DeFrancesco is playing on Sunday afternoon. Drop a comment or an email if you’re going.
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Monthly Archive for May, 2007
Several years ago my friend John Carrico took me out to the beach in RI and showed me how to do extended exposure shots at sunset. I’m not half the photographer John is but I did get the chance to pass on some of his know-how to a friend of mine last night when we went out to do evening shooting from the public boat launch in Rumson. We scouted a few great locations which we would not have found without Hempstead’s encyclopedic knowledge of every westward facing water exposure from River Plaza to the Atlantic.
View the set here.
Hello there. Hope everyone had a fun Holiday Weekend.  Maybe you were even lucky enough to get a piece of birthday cake, as I was.  This week’s tunes are brought to you by “The Man” Cornell Dupree. The album is “Night Fever: The Versatile Sessions” The groove is right out of the 70’s and it rocks.  There is even a cover of Steely Dan’s ‘Peg’. The album cover alone is worth having.  Enjoy- http://tinyurl.com/yvcpk9
Last week was a blast. I’m still looking for some English overviews of the event so that my friends back here in the states can get a sense of what went on in Brasov. In the meantime you can keep your eyes on technorati and flickr. Also, a bunch of folks asked me for copies of my slides and Lucian said it could be a while before he gets them posted on the eLiberatica site so in the meantime, you can get a PDF of the slides here. Also, my photos from the trip are now up on Flickr.
About six months ago, I got an email from my friend Zak asking if I’d like to help introduce open source software to Romania. That’s exactly what we did last week. I think the presence of Zak, Monty, Brian and Kurt did a tremendous amount to simultaneously boost the credibility of open source in Eastern Europe as well as to give the Romanian open source community a sense of being on the map. The Romanians who attended the events seemed so grateful that we came to their county to speak with them and there was a palpable sense of having set something very big in motion. Lucian deserves a lot of credit for wanting to make such a difference in his home country even though he doesn’t live there any longer.
When I wasn’t talking about open government and free software, I was swapping musical recommendations with Brian who has a seriously prodigious knowledge of good music. I also especially enjoyed hearing about Romanian non-profit and technology initiatives from Bako Mihaly (who also did a write up of my talk here that he assures me is positive ;-) . I’m looking forward to seeing how much progress these folks make over the next year. Until then.
Technorati Tags: egovernment, eliberatica
The original Dinosaur Jr lineup has reunited after 19 years and have released “Beyond” If you like Dinosaur Jr, you’ll really like this one. Blazing guitar and signature J Mascis vocals. Check it out.
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