http://www.till.com/blog/ Copyright 2011 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:00:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/12/doxology.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/12/doxology.html Music Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:00:17 -0800 Here's my letter to the editor that ran in the Palo Alto Daily Post today. (This sounds so much like a classic Fusco Brothers comic: Oooh! I'm so mad I'm going to write a letter to the editor! How... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/10/letter_to_the_e.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/10/letter_to_the_e.html Music Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:48:23 -0800 http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/08/keyboard_logo_h.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/08/keyboard_logo_h.html Fun Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:36:51 -0800 This is a copy of a piece I posted to Ricochet recently. Having just done some travelling, I'd like to see some of the presidential candidates get behind this simple proposal: "Abolish the TSA" The arguments are compelling: TSA... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/07/abolish_the_tsa.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/07/abolish_the_tsa.html Politics/Economics Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:08:17 -0800 http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/07/banning_zerowas.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2011/07/banning_zerowas.html Politics/Economics Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:59:58 -0800 Hello, hello; is this thing still on? Yeah, the blog's been dormant for a while. I've been distracted with regular life and otherwise. Anyway, I've redone the till.com home page, so it looks a little bit more professional. (And... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2010/11/_hello_hello_is.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2010/11/_hello_hello_is.html Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:16:19 -0800 (Wow, third in a tight series of accurately predicting the future...) Alembic has just built a prototype run of active guitar cables. 'Looks impressive. I published my version of the active cable here over eight years ago: Don Tillman:... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/new_alembic_act.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/new_alembic_act.html Music Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:51:01 -0800 http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/happy_christmas.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/happy_christmas.html Family Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:00:44 -0800 Is the darkness of the afternoon this time of year getting you down? Well, buck up. December 8th (roughly, depending on your specific latitude) was Analemma Day. Analemma Day is the day of the earliest sunset in mid-northern latitudes,... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/happy_analemma.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/happy_analemma.html Fun Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:42:45 -0800 An article in the New York Times, September 27, 2009, Solar Power, Without All Those Panels by Anne Eisenberg, describes solar panels that are remarkably similar to what I proposed in this blog 20 months in my post Solar... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/10/new_solar_panel.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/10/new_solar_panel.html Tech Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:05:12 -0800 With iTunes 9, Apple introduces a feature called iTunes LP. It sure seems like the folks at Apple's iTunes group have read my article A New Business Model for the Music Industry, and taken it to heart. Good!... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/09/itunes_lp_seems.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/09/itunes_lp_seems.html Music Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:07:56 -0800 [added a couple more articles, needed to reformat...] With socialized medicine in the news these days, I'd like to draw your attention to these articles which present some important reasons why it's a bad thing. The authors all accomplished... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/on_health_care.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/on_health_care.html Politics/Economics Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:26:56 -0800 An addendum to my Cash for Clunkers Post... There are a lot of recent articles about the "success" of the Cash for Clunkers program, as indicated by the number of applicants and the money being dispersed. But the goal... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/cash_for_clunke_1.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/cash_for_clunke_1.html Politics/Economics Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:45:38 -0800 The Obama administration's "Cash for Clunkers" program has been dominating the news lately. This program has some serious problems. One is that it's easily scammed. Sell your old car, buy a Prius, get $4500, sell the Prius on CraigsList... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/cash_for_clunke.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/cash_for_clunke.html Politics/Economics Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:42:08 -0800 It'll take some time to finish listening through last week's order from CD Universe: Bill Bruford / Ralph Towner If Summer Had Its Ghosts Chase Chase / Ennea / Pure Music Larry Coryell Lady Coryell Jerry Goodman and Jan... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/05/what_are_you_li.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/05/what_are_you_li.html Music Tue, 12 May 2009 19:52:06 -0800