Judy Collins has made what is essentially a rock record with a guy half her age named Ari Hest. It’s kind of like those records she made in the 1970’s and 80’s but better — comes with maturity I guess. Silver Skies Blue is the result of a year’s writing collaboration between Hest and Collins. It’s also [...]
I have been digitising a lot of cassettes lately. Thought i would tell you a little about the apps I love to use to do it. I have on my Mac Amadeus pro and Audio Hijack. The latter is what I use to digitise the cassettes. It’s so easy! All you have to do is [...]
This post will probably only be of interest to my blind readers but am putting it here anyway… For sightlings who don’t know what I am talking about here are a few definitions and a little background. In 1900 there were a lot of different systems of writing for the blind in English. Apparently Helen [...]
So Instagram has introduced this thing called Stories. Apparently it’s rather like SnapChat but I’ve been there for a month and kinda haven’t found a use for it accept for making meself look good and it’s there for 24 hours. Some blogs have said that instagram is about sharing people’s finest moments and Stories is [...]
So I’m on Instagram as well and folks actually like my stuff. Photos by a blind woman can be interesting! Or maybe not? I put this photo up there. My mother thinks it’s funny so I put it there. It’s real street photography when a blind woman takes it — I didn’t even ask the guys if [...]
I talked about favourite songs on WordPress. I will do it again here because I think it’s interesting. But right now I thought I would talk about my favourite authors. Bernard Cornwell — A historical novelist who writes and researches very thoroughly. All I know about the Vikings [well not quite] I learned from Cornwell’s novels. Joanne [...]
Last month SnapChat made itself accessible for blind people, almost. I say almost because there are 3 buttons at the bottom of the screen that are not labelled. I commend Snapchat for doing this. But let’s skip back a bit. A while back I posted on http://www.anchor.fm asking what Snapchat was. I first heard of [...]
Ihave been devouring the past few days at night a lecture series on the music of "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wagner" Wagner It’s a very good, interesting lecture series by Prof. Robert Greenberg. Wagner was an absolute bastard. He wanted so much to be somebody during his lifetime but didn’t get anywhere. He was constantly in debt and often [...]
So I am trying this markdown thing again because: * Apparently it’s easier than HTML * Something about it appeals to me because I’m slightly eccentric Am trying ByWord because everybody on the web says it’s good. Not much to report today. Just playing with this markdown thing.
Hello to all my followers here on Wordpress!Tomorrow morning local time I will be doing an ask me anything scope on periscope. For those of you who don’t know Periscope is a real time live video streaming platform owned by Twitter. Tomorrow you can ask me about music, blindness and anything else you care to. [...]