Calling All Sofas, NYC Area, night of Sept. 13

[Update 28 Aug 2010: Got it covered! Thanks to all!]

I'm soon off to visit old friends in Hudson, NY.  I'll be returning to New York City September 13 for an unavoidable, unreschedulable appointment with a cardiologist.  The morning of the 14th, I'm off to Washington, DC, to visit another bunch of old friends.

Cool Tools: FeedRinse

This post inaugurates a new tag on my blog. Henceforth, posts of mine tagged with Cool Tools will tell you about software, Web-based services, devices or what-have-you that I find helpful. There will be, inevitably, a mild geek bent to my selections, but I'll try to confine these posts to mention stuff of universal value or utility.

The first cool tool I'd like to mention is FeedRinse, a free service for filtering RSS newsfeeds.

Getting ready to blog about music - the tune

I'm getting ready to post some of my music to this blog.  This is my test post, using a small bit of a tune I'm not quite done writing. The how-to for this modest hack is here.