Acapella, one of the best forms of music, Sam Robson.

Greetings, few followers.

So I use Facebook, I subscribe to some pages, I get daily emails from favorite websites, and sometimes a gem appears.

Godvine hit me with an acapella arrangement of "How Great Thou Art" by Sam Robson.

So I listened and listened, and am absolutely gobsmacked by it all. (There's a British bit of slang for you!)

So if you'd like to support this young British arranger, buy his digital album here.

History - a fascinating subject.

If you have an inquisitive mind, you may enjoy reading about history. Perhaps we simply do not learn from our mistakes, but if we read about the past, and read with a critical viewpoint refusing to allow progressive authors to rewrite history, then perhaps we can learn.

One of my favorite TV channels is the History Channel.

For example, Today in History produces this list, you may click on the links to view the articles.

This Week in History, Sep 22 - Sep 28

Sep 22, 1862

Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

Sep 23, 1875

Billy the Kid arrested for first time

Sep 24, 1789

The First Supreme Court

Sep 25, 1957

Central High School integrated

Sep 26, 1960

First Kennedy-Nixon debate

Sep 27, 1779

John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British

Sep 28, 1941

Ted Williams becomes last player to hit .400

APP NET - a somewhat different alternative to TWITTER

Greetings.

Not posted in the blog for a while, I plead pressure of work, moving home, etc.

Just watched a ScreenCastOnline podcast about APP.NET. It's a new alternative to TWITTER, with the following text in their "About" page.

App.net is an ad-free, subscription-based social feed and API. App.net aims to be the backbone of the social web through infrastructure that developers can use to build applications and that members can use for meaningful interactions. App.net launched in August of 2012. It's owned and operated by Mixed Media Labs, founded by CEO Dalton Caldwell and CTO Bryan Berg.

So it emphasizes development of new applications, and thus is somewhat specialized. However, the applications that currently are listed are high quality. Why do I like the service? Simply because the applications I have tried are of a high quality, which makes life much easier than, say, browsing the thousands and thousands of poor quality apps on the Apple app store.

Watch the ScreenCastOnline podcast about it here. 

They have a free service, and two levels of paid service! Join in and look for me @CaptainKirk1950