Posts for November, 2005 - Click title to read
It is just too much for me to handle at the moment. Too many things, too much of everything, and I am unable to handle it. I need to close some handles for some time. Time to catch up on things thrown to the side. Too many events. I don’t mean concerts.
One thing I leave, for you to forget, skip, or ponder and discover, in my leave…
Maurice Ravel – Piano Trio (1914) , movement 3 – ‘Passacaille’
Tears form when I play and/or listen to this. It’s just too close to home. The yearning in bar 21, the loneliness in bars 25-36, the anguish and terror in bar 49, and the mysteriousness in bar 47 onwards. It’s just too eerie. And the most beautiful things you will hear in music. It just describes me now, and that’s just too eerie.
Whether you actually find out more about this piece, I leave it to you. It’s not the easiest way, but listening to it tell.
I probably won’t be around for about 3 weeks, unless something interesting comes this way.
Too much of me is lost. I shall retreat to the piano and find myself, and hopefully, recover. [END]
Posted November 20th, 2005 2:57 am by Hoong Ern in
Personal | 1 Comment »
If you have not heard already, there is a big cry over the Digital Rights Management software which Sony places in their copyright protected music CDs.
Posted November 8th, 2005 6:39 am by Hoong Ern in
Computers & Web | 1 Comment »
I don’t pretend to be an expert on Fourier Series, but I did find it interesting when just knowing the basics allowed me to prove an interesting statement. This is the 1st of 3 parts of the proof. It is therefore essential to know a few things about Fourier Series. This first part introduces the idea of fourier series.
Posted November 7th, 2005 5:41 am by Hoong Ern in
Maths & Science | 1 Comment »
After some lengthy discussions on the solution to arg(z) = arg(z -1 + i) I decided to come up with a ‘simple’ explanation on how to get the answer. You decide whether it’s simple. I think it is. Here it is – The arguments of arguments.
Posted November 6th, 2005 2:01 am by Hoong Ern in
Maths & Science | 7 Comments »
Read a sample log of a ‘normal’ week that I go through over here (not fake).
Posted November 5th, 2005 2:39 am by Hoong Ern in
Personal | 5 Comments »
Given a set of let’s say, 20 numbers, and you’re asked to arrange them from the least to the greatest. Here is the “bubble sort” and “shuttle sort”, two algorithms which will arrange them in order. Needless to say, you should not need to use them, but they can be interesting.
[EDIT : Ooh, discovered that the site layout breaks in IE because of some silly bug when viewing this post. Sorted that now. Phew. Irritating IE]
Posted November 1st, 2005 4:29 am by Hoong Ern in
Maths & Science | 2 Comments »
