Cheryl Morris - Weblogs

Was it the title that stopped me? I just remember downloading a sound clip and being very surprised and thrilled, as I am mostly familiar with throat singing from Mongolia and Tuva. Chi Bu-Lag’s instrument is a matouqin, an ancient stringed instrument of the Mongolian herders. He has transformed it into an internationally known instrument […]

I’d not really tried Google Books until yesterday. Then, on a whim, I put in the name of someone I am searching for in genealogy (not my ancestor — it’s just a long story). His name is Aaron Parks and he was a Revolutionary War soldier. Well, I didn’t get a hit on him, but […]

My iPod is nearing its 60GB limit with less than 10GB left. It was somewhere around 25GB that I began to note an interface problem. Specifically, it becomes near impossible to “wheel through” the lists of artists. I get discouraged partway through the C’s, so the only solution is to have what I want on […]

This semester I have a course in Online Learning Environments (OLE). What is an OLE? It can (and often is) an online course, but that is a narrow scope. With more and more of us online, an OLE can be nearly any type of learning environment. Must it be facilitated by interaction? If there […]

Uhhuh. Black Sabbath songs sung in Latin and played on medieval instruments! As I write, A National Acrobat (Funambulus Domesticus) is playing. I’m not sufficiently versed in old instruments to guess, though the site says Frame Drum and Fiddle are used. Other songs use Harp, Hurdy Gurdy and Organistrum, Lute, Bagpipe, Psaltery, and Positive […]

What sort of security arrangements are made when a company or organization decides to blog? At what point do you involve IT and information security professionals?

All Saints has been a vocal parish for decades. In the 50s or early 60s, Pasadena was heavily split between liberals and the John Birch Society. That split extended to the Board of Education where two members (one from each side) became so hostile that the then Rector of All Saints refused them communion until […]