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Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Downloadable Sheet Music For the past four or five years, most all the work I've done has been on an Intranet, behind a firewall. So it's real exciting to finally put something up that's there for the world to see. At Byron Hoyt Sheet Music, we acquired rights to over 6,000 pieces of sheet music in PDF form. In collaboration with ebrary, we're able to sell these items for 25 cents a page. Ebrary handles all the transactions, and at Byron Hoyt we cleaned up the data in the files acquired from CD Sheet Music. There was a lot of cleanup to be done, to make all the names consistent with one another (there are still some minor flaws, but we'll get them worked out soon). It was a combination of hard work on the part of people who know their music, and me driving the database. So go have browse: the main website is http://www.byronhoyt.com. For the holiday season, we've made one file available free: Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Go print out the 5 pages that make it up, and see how it works. We've got a lot more of this kind of thing planned, so stay tuned. 10:38:09 PM  Permalink  comment []

What Christian Theologian are You? From Doc Searles. And like Doc, I'm Karl Barth: We reject the false doctrine that the church could have permission to hand over the form of its message and of its order to whatever it itself might wish or to the vicissitudes of the prevailing ideological and political convictions of the day. You are Karl Barth! You like your freedom, and are pretty stubborn against authority! You don't care much for other people's opinions either. You can come up with your own fun, and often enough you have too much fun. You are pretty popular because you let people have their way, even when you have things figured out better than them. But unlike Doc, I got an A in church history. Alas, that was a long time ago, and I only remember the highlights (er, mostly lowlights) now. I don't know Karl Barth much, but this quote is pretty right on:  "We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below." Aw, don't pull your punches, Karl. 7:00:54 PM  Permalink  comment []

Todo Roger sends along this Trent Lott Todo list. 7:02:35 PM  Permalink  comment []

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