chakravyuha

I’ve gone postless for a rather long time and I need to get back in the groove. So let me start slow here. Here’s a typical song(s)-of-the-day/week/month post. I intend to make this a regular thing, with songs from both the past and the present. Follow my lists and you’ll surely gain a couple points of cool each week.

Neil Finn – Elastic Heart from One Nil.

I always thought that FLAC encoded digital tracks are only used by raving Phish fans. I have this in FLAC along with MP3 and boy does FLAC sound good. A nice groove with Neil Finn (of the Crowded House fame) stretching the vowels every third word. Some interesting touches include the electronic bird chirp in the background in sections. If you have your headphones on, you’ll feel that it’s the early morning bird. At the start and end of the song there’s garbled vocals which sound like words from an Aarti. There’s a lot happening here so give it a couple of listens, preferably with those cans on.

Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line (Dorfmeister Mix)

A nice mix of the Zero 7′s In the Waiting Line from their album Simple Things.

Mogwai – Hunted By A Freak from Happy Songs For Happy People

Instrumental happiness. The best piece from this album.

Blur – Tender from 13.

Slow, rambling, tuneful. I seriously consider anything Damon Albarn puts out.

Led Zeppelin – No Quarter from Houses of the Holy.

Old gold.

I just read an article on stem cell banking and how it is becoming the in-thing as a retention tool. What is the big idea? The technology is not there yet. The scheme seems to be that the employer will pay half the cost on stem cell banking and the employee pays the rest. If the employee leaves in say a year, he has to pay a certain percentage of the cost that the employer has paid. This percentage progressively decreases as the tenure of the employee increases.

So, what is new? As usual, they do not seem to be fixing the root causes of employee atrition.

A comprehensive and well balanced review of Windows Vista at

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004916&pageNumber=1

Needless to say, accessability is not covered. I wonder how adaptive technology will handle all these new graphics? Also, how will access technology cope with the new security mechanisms?