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Reviews

Here’s the review from Keyboard Magazine of A Piano:

A Piano: The Collection
Tori Amos

By Michael Gallant | October 2006

Five CDs and 86 tracks strong, A Piano: The Collection is both an excellent canon of Tori’s compositions and a fitting monument to the piano-woman’s momentous musical career. The box set ranges from the Little Earthquakes songs that made her famous — “Silent All These Years,” “Me and a Gun,” etc. — to her most recent work on Beekeeper, and features many treasures in between.

Always deeply emotional, the material in A Piano: The Collection journeys from dark to playful, heart breaking to downright sexy, and Tori’s performances are in top form throughout. This isn’t just a repackaging of classic material, though: “Leather” and “Jackie’s Strength” are among 15 alternate mixes included, and three demo tracks offer the rare chance to hear Tori mid-creative process. For the diehard fan and aspiring piano songwriter alike, A Piano: The Collection is a great listen and an invaluable resource. (Rhino, www.rhino.com)
—Michael Gallant

I could go to Amazon or Wikipedia and come away with something more insightful. Read this one instead.

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Who needs the desktop?

‘Everything online’ is coming, trust me. Google’s increasing number of web-based office applications proves this – helped by yesterday’s acquisition of JotSpot. But that’s just the first stage, because eventually we will break free from the need for office applications. Read the post about my vision, if you’ve not already done so.

John Milan, guest contributor to Read/Write Web thinks that web-based applications sometimes need desktop companions concluding that “The key for success will be how easily data can be identified, distributed and synchronized. Soon enough it will be immaterial where your event or task originated. Instead, what will matter is that your data being everywhere and in sync.”

The ‘everything online’ version will be achieved when we start thinking about information and knowledge, rather than document format, and when the concept of sync-ing is long forgotten.

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Emm Gryner: Almighty Love

Track of the day, although really just an excuse to point to someone who’s just discovered Emm.

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Companies House Website

Companies House is the organisation that manages the registration and corporate information of companies in the UK. Their website is a strange place. It’s the only website I know of that closes most of its services overnight.

Today is the day that I’m filing our Annual Return: this is a way of fleecing companies of £30 for the privilege of confirming (or updating) their information, which also happens to be a legal requirement.

Their Annual Return letter includes the statement ”..you may be able to file this annual return online for £15”. Does this mean “if you’re lucky ‘cos our site is a bit flaky”? No, it actually means that online filing is only available for company numbers that contain all digits or are prefixed by ‘SC’. So why doesn’t the Annual Return letter say this?

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