Sometime in the last century, or to be more precise, in the last year of the last century I’ve come across something called Linux. I worked for IBM and the tech showed me a CD that read “RedHat 3.4″. I had no clue what that was ….

Being curious and always on the lookout for something that works (in a world where not many things function as they could/should) I installed it and ever since, a minimum of one GNU/Linux distribution was always installed on one of my computers! Read the rest of this entry »

The writing was on the wall for a while now and all it took was that one piece of well crafted gadget which would brake the ice and bring very portable computing to the masses.
The hardware is elegant and after using it for a few minutes it became obvious that those to brought it to live are very clever people! How ever, not everything is cleaver in Apple land, especially for those of us who develop software.
As the saying goes: “In the land of the blind, the guy with one eye is king”. Apple is king … for now and therefore they get to Read the rest of this entry »

They say that once you know how to ride a bicycle, you never forget …

About 30 years ago, I became fascinated with music and like many of my friends in Austria, I too wanted to perform with a band. To do so, I’ve asked one of the well known musicians in our region to Read the rest of this entry »

A few years ago (2005), I bought a Qosmio laptop, if I recall this right it was the first in the series that Toshiba produced. It was not a good buy as within the first three years, the machine needed three major repairs which were covered by an extended warranty plan I’ve purchased before leaving for Europe.

One of the repairs required a new main board and with that, the original system restore DVD was no longer usable and I was given a new one from Toshiba. Eventually, I’ve installed Read the rest of this entry »

Growing up in Austria, small town life didn’t offer much excitement and for some reason, cinemas were dying a slow death because … I actually don’t know why but perhaps it had something to do with Read the rest of this entry »

Being able to take photos used to be special but now that digital cameras are everywhere, that is no longer the case. Take a look at the camer pictured to the left! She is a beauty and about 100 years old!

I’m tempted to have the film developed … you never know what she saw the last time she looked???

Usually I am not fascinated with “old stuff” but than again, there is a first time for everything I suppose ?

Here is a sneak peek of the new trumpet module for “Little Composers”! I’ve finally managed to get rid of the black background which allows me to design a much nicer interface to import the lessons into

Once everything is finished, you can test the software at: http://littlecomposers.com