At the Sounding Edge: LilyPond, Part 2
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A look at three GUI front-ends for the LilyPond music notation software.
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Part two: "Concluding, among other things..." Also in this week's column:â¦
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I just woke up in Paris, it's 5:34AM here, but back in California, it still never ceases to amaze me, the day hasn't yet flipped. You guys haven't even gone to bed yet! Now that's amazing to me. What perseverence! Keep up the good work everybody.  I just started posting a couple of twits that really should be a blog post, so let's get started. First at some point, after a suitable period of mourning, I'd like to rasie the issue of what's to happen with Marc Orchant's web presence. Which of course is a way of focusing attention on all of our web presences.  None of us like to think of it, but truth is none of us are going to live forever. Yet if you read this, it's likely that you're creating a digital body that can and imho should continue to exist even after your physical body stops existing. People are humble, no one wants to come out and say their work has any value that's worth preserving past their death, but come on, we know that's not true. If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be writing on the web. As would Hemingway or Faulkner, Vonnegut or Mailer, John Lennon or Dylan Thomas, Carl Sandberg or Robert Frost. Mozart, Bach and Beethoven. You think there isn't any great literature out there on the web? I wouldn't be so sure about that. What if there is? And what if a baby born today becomes a great creative force? Or what if there's a social disaster like the Holocaust? Did you know that there are preserved diaries from pre-revolutionary America? Writings of ordinary people can be of enormous help to historians. And if we believe in citizen journalism (I do) why not citizen historians? Shouldn't we be thinking out into the future? We should! With all possible humility, I'd like to tell you that a few days after I die my entire web presence will likely disappear. My servers require some attention from me from time to time. The first time that happens, poof, there goes 10-plus years of Scripting News, and all the docs for the OPML Editor and the OPML spec, the XML-RPC site, to name just a few. Anyway, within a couple of months it will all certainly disappear, unless someone pays my hosting and DSL bills. Maybe someone will, but isn't it ridiculous that that's what it depends on? And when my sites disappear so will my uncle's. He died in 2003. His site is still accessible because I keep it that way. When I die, who will will take over for me? I'm sure the world will survive without his writing, but why? If I love the memory of my uncle, and I do, what can I do to reserve a place for him in the archive of the future. It seems such a small thing, but it's most of what remains of his life.  And what of academics, Nobel Laureates and others? I know for a fact that a great university (Harvard) has no plan to protect their web-based work after they pass. It's so ironic that the web offers an archival solution for non-digital work, yet the web information is more fragile than the physical stuff. Preserving our digital heritage is going to require some foresight, some planning, but it seems possible and we surely can do much better. Marc's fate awaits us all. While we're still alive, there's still time to solve this problem. When we're gone, it will be too late. Part of his legacy can be that he helped focus us on this issue, and his life work could be a great test case. Do we want to see his work preserved? And if so, how will it be done? PS: The RSS 2.0 site will likely persist, because I gave it to Berkman, and then used it as a test case to learn about future-safing. It seems likely to continue to exist, knock wood, praise Murphy, as long as Harvard exists.
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By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Jun. 3--A colorful butterfly that is as imperiled as the prairie habitat it depends on is making a bit of a comeback here in South Sound.
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Too many trees lost for more shopping centers  This was recently sent to Mayor (Meyera) Oberndorf.  Please visit our neighborhood of old Thalia. Come and see what they have done to the corner at Willis Furniture store thus far.
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Yet another sequel seems to be in the offering.
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Greetings, dear readers. Cathy has asked me to keep you entertained, or at least awake, for a couple of weeks while she catches a break from the fashion cycle, which still seems to be rolling along even after the end of the Paris collections. New York, where it feels like spring outside, is playing host [...].
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By KRISTEN DAVENPORT, PHOTO BY JANE PHILLIPS
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Q. Ten months ago I was given a peace lily. It bloomed at that time, but it has been dormant ever since with no blooms. Can you give me some thoughts on taking care of it, or can you suggest a book I could purchase on the care of it? - Albert Rudis, Chesapeake  A.
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Instead of using my iPhone and Twittergram to post real-time pictures, I used the Nikon and took higher resolution pictures.  The leaves are turning, and the sun was out after a huge rain. I thought there would be some good pictures, and there were.   Click on the picture above to see the set.
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Paolo hypothesizes a much-needed tool in a post yesterday, and a follow-up today.
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The therapeutic power of flowers takes on new meaning with a Japanese gadget that turns plants into audio speakers.
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By Jennifer Schaefer, Destin Log, Fla.  Feb. 10--Inside the sprawling WaterColor's second phase is a neighborhood called Cinnamon Fern, which backs into the lushly green Wood Fern Park.
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The whale's tiny ancestor, how global warming may be hurting plants' carbon-fixing ability, and the mystery of Mars's missing limestone
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Iâm at Moro, waiting for my friend Bob Crowley and Nicholas Hytner to come from Christopher Wheeldonâs ballet at Saddler Wells. Narciso Rodriguez did the costumes for the ballet. Heâs in town but I havenât seen him. Too many shows, I guess. Just left Giles Deaconâs show. One of Giles Deaconâs looks.(Jonathan Player for The New [...].
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An Antarctic honeymoon, an iceberg, and questions about climate change.
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep.