Category Archives: Sidetopics

Rock Me Baby

I found Rock Me Baby with BB King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Jim Vaughn in a tweet from @Amy Stark. It’s a great tune and performed by several of my favourite musicians.

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Blue Bayou

A friend of mine reminded me of Blue Bayou with Linda Ronstadt. It’s a great song and I love her voice. There’s also a version with Roy Orbison.
Blue Bayou with Linda Ronstadt

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All Your Love

I love blues and Norah Jones voice, what can then be better than combining the two?
Norah Jones – All Your Love

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Blues In The Night

I went to YouTube in search for Blues In The Night, a song suggested by a friend of mine.
Blues In The Night from a woman’s point of view: Katie Melua (live AVO Session), there’s a harmonica which I love. I also found Eva Cassidy, Anne Shelton and Ella Fitzgerald (with a sax player).
Blues In The [...]

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Don’t Worry Be Happy!

I have posted that Worrying gets you nowhere. That reminds me of the song Don’t Worry Be Happy with Bobby McFerrin. This video can only be watched at YouTube, embedding is blocked.
Here’s another version that can be enjoyed here:

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WordPress 3 becomes multisite

The coming WordPress 3 will be a multisite solution. Within one installation of WordPress you can have multiple blogs. You can also set plugins to be sitewide, used on all blogs within the WordPress installation.
For people like me who run several WordPress blogs this is a huge step towards simpler site management. Instead of the [...]

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Is That All There Is?

Lyrics
SPOKEN:
I remember when I was a very little girl, our house caught on fire.
I’ll never forget the look on my father’s face as he gathered me up
in his arms and raced through the burning building out to the pavement.
I stood there shivering in my pajamas and watched the whole world go up in flames.
And when [...]

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The iPhone Book

Since I want to use the functionality in my iPhone as much as possible I ordered The iPhone Book. The subtitle says “How to do the most important, useful and fun stuff with your iPhone” and the book looks promising. I like the book’s layout, each page covers just one single topic. The book [...]

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Wiki on a Stick

I have my notes in regular textfiles, a file per topic, which is easy to maintain. The downside is that it gets blurry where to put a note and it’s not always easy to quickly find what I’m looking for. What I want is something small and simple (no server, no database) yet powerful enough [...]

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Tick Tock Timer

Tick Tock Timer is a very nice online timer. It runs in your web browser, if you can live with that it’s a really useful timer.
It’s useful whether you use the Pomodoro Technique or not. Set the Tick Tock Timer and then focus on one thing. Read your email, read news, write a blog post [...]

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