Shuffleboard 12

1. "Prelude from Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello in G Major" by Yo-Yo Ma from Sounds of Yo-Yo Ma
Note: composed by Bach
Nothing better than a great cello. Yo-Yo Ma is the cello, as far as I'm concerned. Like Itzhak Perlman on the violin and John Coltrane on the sax, Ma is the definition of a great cellist.
This is one of the more popular Bach cello pieces. It's definitely written solely for a cello, and Bach certainly challenges the player to play some great sixteenth-note runs. In fact, the song is pretty much one long sixteenth-note run. Ma has exceptional emotion and dynamics throughout the shortish track, and you can't help but feel distinguished just by listening to it. Phenomenal.

Happy Birthday, REACTOR!

That's right, tens of readers, THE REACTOR is one year old, today. On July 29, 2009, I began reacting to things, and I'm still goin strong (and could go admittedly stronger).
So here's some stats (via Google Analytics) to round out Year One:

Total Visits: 3052
That's less than most minor blogs get in one day. Sad.

Average Time on Site: 1 minute, 1 second
Yup, internet short attention span FTW.

Mac or PC?

I wrote this as an application to be a facebook beta tester. 
The age-old question, indeed. And I'm going be weird when I say: both.
(Disclaimer: I have used both extensively)
The ads are vicious, the fanboys even more so. Macs are easier to use, no, PCs are, but Macs don't get viruses, etc. etc. etc.
It really all depends on what YOU need to use a computer for. Your "philosophy of use," if you will.

Sheepish Grin

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I joined Twitter. Seems like just yesterday/last August that I called it stupid. Ah well.
It turns out it'll probably be pretty useful in promoting my blog and getting info from various news outlets and cool people.
Just chalk it up to a guy named Leo Laporte. He's a tech guru who's on top of the latest trends and all that business. He likes to call it "hand-holding on the information superhighway." And he's super dorky, like me. Anyways, he's talked about Twitter being a sort of finger on the pulse of the web, filtering the staggering terabytes of data that pop up on the internet every second. And since I am a journalist interested in such things, I figured I should probably know the vital signs as much as the next person.
I'll mostly be retweeting (posting something someone else has already posted) and promoting blog posts and my photos on it, but that's okay. That's pretty much what it's for, and what it's evolved into.