Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

There's train music that has other messages. There's train music that makes a point about Something Important. Not this. This is... pure.

I did a talk today about the Orange Book. The Orange Book lays out some very well-structured, very stringent principles for the construction of truly secure systems. The audience for it was DoD and other government procurement officers who needed to buy reliably secure systems…

May Day this year fell on Waltz Wednesday, so that's a little bit of an excuse. But I also admit that this escaped my notice on the day it was published: May Day, of course. So I bring it to you now, belatedly. A juicy…

(Not a baseball post.) We got a new feeder, and the invited guests were not slow to the buffet. These are more beautiful than I knew. We haven't often seen them so up close until now.

Mostly, I prefer studio recordings of waltzes. The performers often feel free, in live performance, to play fast and loose with the rhythms. Neil Diamond's live performances of Play Me drive me crazy for this reason, as do most of James Taylor's renditions of Sweet…