World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
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As long-time readers know, I'm an amateur musician, from a very musical family. My sister is a music teacher, and my brother used to be a professional french horn player and composer. I personally play classical clarinet, a very wide range of folk-flutes, and some bluegrass banjo.
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Hey Greg, maybe it's just me, but I can't read anything you posted yesterday past 01:00 PM (you blog's time). I've tried with Firefox and Chrome. Both of them load empty pages.
This is a great video! I've seen it before (I believe on Bora's blog), but it's well worth watching again. Unfortunately, I'll have to wait to watch it until after The Corporation playlist I have running expires.
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Earrnz: Thanks for letting me know. They should be visible now.
About a day ago, our server farm ran out of hard disk space owing to a 200 gigabyte log file. That was deleted, so we're OK now. While the hard disk was filled, the default was apparently to generate blank pages and apparently some of them are still blank pages...
A 200 gigabyte log file? That must have been a lot of boring statii.
It's all fine now.
200 GB log! Wow, just... wow.