Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb major

I am starting a new piece called "Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb major." Frankly, it would be badly written, lacking originality, and showing too much resemblance to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, which I am using as my example.

What I am planing on doing is take a theme I wrote for another piece, and developing it more so that it can have a piano part for the first movement. For the second movement, I am going to steal chord progressions from "Florence." For the third, I am going to steal all of my piece "Rondo in Eb major."

Since I plan to have the piece be approximately 20 minutes long, I am aiming for 7-8 minutes for the first movement, 4-5 minutes in the second, and 7-8 minutes for the last finale.

I intend to finish the piece before my ski trip in February, so I have less than a month. I'll see if I can make my goal.

Windows 7 Beta

I'm using a lot of bandwidth right now. I'm downloading an ISO file of Windows 7
Beta, and uploading a 200 MB video.

Podbean.com

"Podbean.com is an easy and powerful way to start podcasting." That's how they describe themselves. I was bored and I was searching for a way to embed a flash player to play an mp3 file. I'm going to try putting a player for this post.

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Last Day with my Grandma

Today is my last day spending some time with my aunts and grandma in San Francisco. I have been extremely unproductive the past few days, and I hardly got any of my school work done. It will take some time for me to get used to the busy life I have at school. Irregardless, Christmas time comes once a year, and I can always look forward to spend time like this with them next year. Or over the summer.

I got bored and put this here.

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The next major break I am looking forward to is when I go skiing in February. I'll care more when the time comes near.

Blue Screen of Death

I got bored and I downloaded a virtual machine with ReactOS preinstalled on it. I like how it resembles Windows, even the blue screen. This screen was triggered by playing on Solitarie, and then exiting the game. ReactOS developers are doing very well just getting their operating system to work using clean reverse engineering. However, this alpha version of the OS is probably what critics of Windows would like, when it crashes while doing a basic task.

Netbooks with Windows XP

Today I went to Costco, and I was looking at this Acer netbook. As with any standard netbook with Windows, it comes with Windows XP and an Intel Atom processor. Some guy was really offended when he saw that netbook. He said to his friend, "Now these laptops come with Windows XP. That's just disgusting." He was implying that Windows Vista is better than XP. We all know Windows Vista Business Bonus Edition is the best, because businesses pay extra to get computers with the best edition of Windows Vista. But I guess it's a matter of choice, since Vista and XP are both decent.

Irregadless, netbooks were built for mobility and Internet access, as from the definition of a "netbook." I would guess someone could get bored and install Windows Vista on a netbook. They are powerful enough for some features of Vista, but I guess people just like XP.

I guess that person in Costco should have watched this video.

Birthday

My friend's birthday is tomorrow.  I always forget about it because I get preoccupied with the New Year.  I don't think he would be offended anyway.

This video is for my friend, if he comes here.

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Happy New Year

I hear fireworks going off around San Francisco right now, while my parents are in the living room watch the countdown on TV. None of the countdowns are actually in sync with the time I have on the computer, which is synchronized with an online time server. Regardless, it's fun having countdowns being broadcasted, about 10 or 20 seconds apart.

I was thinking about time zones. One of my Grandma's friends from Honolulu came to visit her yesterday, and the visit made me remember Hawaii is 2 hours different from the GMT-08:00 Pacific Time Zone I am living in. That would mean part of the world is still in 2008 right now.

Still more, the Earth's orbit around the Sun lasts for 365 1/4 days. So I would think that means technically, the Earth is still in 2008 in terms of it's orbit, even though we humans say it's 2009 already.

Hmm...

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