I’ve made it a point since last year to visit the Web Gallery of Art at least once a week and discover something new by digging into it’s vast archive of paintings. Images are hosted on servers at the Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. I’ve been concentrating on images of musicians, downloading my favorites and adding the associated text. It’s been a great source of new desktop wallpapers at work, too!

A story on TechCrunch notes that Yahoo has released some code for their new browser based flash media player. While I don’t see a personal need to use their player when there are already so many perfectly good flash media players available, I can’t help but try it out. If it’s easier than installing the typical player or fiddling with a nifty module in blog software, maybe people will post more music! In fact, maybe I’ll start a real podcast one of these days…

I’ve linked a couple instrumental ditties below that I recorded on my Guitar Lute [image page] that were thrown up here on my private podcast recently. They aren’t perfect, but they were done
Spagnoletta
Minuet in Em

You should see a little grey player icon next to each mp3 link if you want to try the player. Otherwise, you can just click the direct link. [update: It doesn't seem to work in Opera, though is OK in Firefox, Safari, and IE]