Ambiguity. It’s the defining characteristic of this age. Yesterday offered many certainties. A secure job, stable income, lasting community…a predictable economy, culture, society. But that’s not the case anymore. Something surrounds us, permeating our worlds, defining our lives; though we call it by different names. Economic uncertainty; social instability; political unpredictability. All simply different kinds of ambiguity.
Umair Haque writes on Ambiguity and the Art of Meaning.
So far I’ve only seen this in print form, and when they put it online last year it was in the form of a inaccessible, unsearchable image, so as my public service for the day I’ve written out the schedule for the upcoming Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Festival, and added links to the artists where I could find them. I’d like to expand this with personnel of each group, so if you know who’s in what band let me know in a comment or email.
Sponsor: Kemah Boardwalk
Cosponsors: University of Houston-Downtown, Houston Professional Musicians
Association, Local 65-699, H&H Music Company
Founder and Festival Director: Robert Wilson, UH Downtown Arts and
Humanities Falculty. Member and Director, UHD Civic Music Program
| 6:00-6:50 | McGinty Brothers Quintet |
| 7:10-8:00 | Steve Allison and Resolution |
| 8:20-9:10 | Eddie Lewis and Living Rhythms |
| 6:00-6:50 | Woody Witt Quartet |
| 7:10-8:00 | Tribute Quartet |
| 8:30-9:30 | Trumpet Great Bobby Shew with HPMA Big Band |
| 10:00-11:00 | Pamela York Trio |
| 12:00-12:50 | Salsa Maria |
| 1:10-2:00 | Tony Campise |
| 2:20-3:10 | Ron Wilkins |
| 3:30-4:20 | Carol Morgan |
| 4:40-5:30 | Carlos Garnett/Will Cruz Latin Jazztet |
| 5:50-6:40 | Norma Zenteno Latin Jazz Band |
| 6:45-7:00 | Presentation of the Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Achievement Award |
| 7:10-8:00 | Sam Jackson Jazz Orchestra |
| 8:30-9:30 | Saxophone Great Ernie Watts with the Pamela York Trio |
| 10:00-11:00 | Warren Sneed |
| 1:00-1:50 | Young Sounds of Houston Teen Jazz Orchestra |
| 2:10-3:00 | Ethan Atkinson Group |
| 3:20-4:10 | UHD Civic Jazz Orchestra with Trombone Great Ron Wilkins |
| 4:30-5:20 | Sax No End |
| 5:40-6:30 | Mike Wheeler |
| 7:00-8:00 | The Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra |
Continue reading Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Festival 2002 Schedule
Two big releases today: WordPress 4.2 with lots of interface improvements and emoji support, and the 3.5 release of Jetpack with a new menu editor.
Another great review: “This version brings back the pleasure to blog. […] Are WordPressers the only ones having all the fun these days or what?”
Call the media bluff on HD.
Announcing the Ping-O-Matic Global Network, a global and redundant array of servers providing Ping-O-Matic service and APIs.
Sam Altman of YCombinator wrote a great post on the occasion of his thirtieth birthday, The days are long but the decades are short. There’s a lot of subtlety and nuance in each point, so even if you’ve read it already it’s worth another pass.
The Verge: Slot machines perfected addictive gaming. Now, tech wants their tricks. Includes information from one of my favorite authors Nir Eyal, who also spoke at WordCamp San Francisco a few years ago.
The new Civicspace Labs site is up, it’s a lot easier now to tell what in the world they actually do. Nice redesign!
Battlestar Galactica is doing commentary podcasts, from the SciFi channel.
A great review of WordPress at Newsforge is up, very thorough and covers a lot of the resources at the Codex.
Just getting things ready to head up to Austin. Laundry and money. What else do you need? (Besides this cool bag of course.)
Well I slept a little late but now that I’m awake I’m going to get the last few things ready before I head up to Austin. I’m planning to blog everything this weekend so this should be a good opportunity to start. Most of the major stuff is done, I’m just waiting on an important letter (read: check) in the mail before I leave. I can’t dawdle for too long though, as tonight at 6 I “Break Bread with Brad“. But for now I’m running late, and need to get my rear in gear.
Fellow WP developer Alex has released his cursor-aware quicktag code under the LGPL. This is one of my very favorite features of WordPress, and its ease of use is one of the main reasons I haven’t adapted a meta-language like Markdown personally.
And so it begins. I’m showered, the car is washed, everything I need (I hope) is in the car, and I’m ready to roll. It’s not a short drive though, so it’s a good thing I love driving! See everyone in Austin.
Work-safe art, John Ashcroft would approve.
I’m not sure why they’re still working on a WordPress Blacklist when that functionality is built in to 1.2 in a very robust fashion. At this point patches to improve the included blacklist/moderation would be more useful to the average user, I think.