Jarrett House NorthSoftware development, Boston life, music, and whatever else is interesting.Wow, that was something: Les Troyens- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Opening night is past. Les Troyens, Part I is a magnificent beast, and it has already bloodied the cast—poor Dwayne Croft had a cold the likes of which I’ve never heard from someone singing a part like that. I think we all breathed a sigh of relief at the end of the duet. All the soloists were magnificent, but the prize has to go to Yvonne Naef, or as I called her in my Facebook status “Yvonne Fricking Naef” in homage to John Moltz’s Jennifer Fricking Connolly. Her.http://discuss.jarretthousenorth.com/2008/04/22#a21876 Les Troyens: Early reviews in- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Boston Globe: Glimpses of Fire, Passion at Symphony Hall. As I mentioned last night, Dwayne Croft’s cold was in evidence, and Jeremy Eichler mentions it, and is negative about Marcello Giordano’s performance as well. But he gives thumbs up to Yvonne Naef and practically glows about the TFC, giving the longest review mention (a full paragraph!) that we’ve had from the Globe in recent memory: The hero of last night's outing was the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, which sang, from...http://discuss.jarretthousenorth.com/2008/04/23#a21877 Reports of my blog's death slightly exaggerated.- (Found July 8, 2008 ) But just slightly. More details after I get out of this rehearsal.http://discuss.jarretthousenorth.com/2008/04/28#a21878 What happened And, going forward- (Found July 8, 2008 ) A few people were surprised last week when the part of my blog at discuss.jarretthousenorth.com went offline. Well, me too! I had a lot of concert commitments at the end of last week and didn't notice over the weekend when the site went down, nor when my site was replaced with a default Weblogger.com page. But obviously it’s back now. So here’s what happened: the Manila server that powers my dynamic site (the part where I actually create the content and that serves my RSS feed)...http://discuss.jarretthousenorth.com/2008/04/29#a21879 Veracode: Cool Vendor- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Quick pointers to a few awards Veracode has won recently: Readers Choice Award, Information Security Magazine and SearchSecurity.com Gartner Cool Vendor Award, Application Security and Authentication category It’s great for Veracode to get this kind of recognition. I’m really proud to work at a company that can make a difference to how companies address application security. —Oops. Almost forgot to mention: Looks like I’ll be at the Gartner IT Security Summit in early..http://discuss.jarretthousenorth.com/2008/04/10#a21865 |