Comments on On An Overgrown Path: New classical recording becomes hot property

Ahh, blaming computers again.I would roast the own...

2007-10-17T08:21:00.000+01:00

Ahh, blaming computers again.
I would roast the owner of that laptop first. Anyone dumb enough to have many hours of labor sitting on a laptop without multiple backups on CD/DVD or external hard drives should not be working in this field.

Back in the bad old days of tape, the tapes were so big and bulky the worst thing that could happen is leaving them in a car in the sun all day, or dropping a latte on them.

The laptop was stolen not for what was contained within, but for the laptop itself. In this digital age, people need to be trained properly on how to handle content. And in this case, it wasn't the computer's fault.

But tragedies do happen. Like the time Christian Wolff left his guitar in his car after a performance in San Francisco of a new piece for electric guitar that Morton Feldman wrote for him. He discovered later that his guitar was stolen, and in the case was the ONLY copy of Feldman's score.

Luckily, the performance was recorded (this was in the early 60's), but then the tape went missing for 40 years until it was found recently in the Other Minds archive of tapes from KPFA radio!

Always backup your data!

...HTML that opens a new window from within Blogge...

2007-10-16T23:15:00.000+01:00

...HTML that opens a new window from within Blogger comments I'll gratefully use it.

Aha ... my sympathies! I'm no HTML whiz, and have no idea how one might fool the Blogger SW.

As a poor second-best, I suppose one could follow a link by something such as ... (Right-click link & open in a new window).

If computers weren't so useful, I'd take a sledgehammer to mine ...
:-)

Scott, my previous attempts to open links within c...

2007-10-16T18:06:00.000+01:00

Scott, my previous attempts to open links within comments in a new window have been blocked by Blogger - it won't accept the attribute "TARGET".

I was going to post the complete code and error message here to show what I tried, but Blogger won't let me!

If anyone cares to email me HTML that opens a new window from within Blogger comments I'll gratefully use it.

Too fast with "publish" ... I also meant to say th...

2007-10-16T17:53:00.000+01:00

Too fast with "publish" ... I also meant to say that I know there are ways to force a link to open in a new window, but it's friendlier to do it on the user's behalf for the benefit of those who may not know the technique.

Small suggestion - it would help if you could set ...

2007-10-16T17:51:00.000+01:00

Small suggestion - it would help if you could set links given inside a comment to open in a new browser window. Today, such links open inside the small comment window ... which can't be maximized and is quite useless for looking at a site.

Thanks ...

Richard, true but somewhat harsh.There are other e...

2007-10-16T17:06:00.000+01:00

Richard, true but somewhat harsh.

There are other examples of losses like this which may seem careless, but which are artistically disastrous. Here is another one with a Britten connection.

Other examples of lost manuscripts and recordings welcome.

So, they'll spend ~$80K to make a recording but no...

2007-10-16T15:31:00.000+01:00

So, they'll spend ~$80K to make a recording but not $250 for an offsite backup?

Is this a joke and/or publicity stunt?