Barnes and Noble news

Although I usually use Calibre to convert documents into .EPUB format the guys over at Barnes and Noble are working on a nice instore feature for use with my favorite reader, the Nook. This article is brought to us from The Register. The author mentions it would be nice if Microsoft Word had a "Publish to Nook" button as a result of their recent partnership. I thought about it and I really think that would be pretty cool.

Target dropping Amazon Kindle

Well from what I can tell Apple is at it again when it comes to their e-reader and e-book mini war with Amazon. I'll not copy the article or pretend it is mine. Nope. This article comes straight to me from Ars Technica. You can read the full version here.

History of the Blog's Title

Some people may or may not be aware of what the word "requiem" means. Here is the wikipedia entry on it so you can check it out for itself.


I fell in love with sound of the word after hearing Mozart's "Confutatis Requiem." It was a track on a CD I had back in 1996 that had a whole bunch of songs from Classical composers. I think I got it from Music+. Remember them? ;)

So I did some digging on Youtube and came across a rather nice version of it which I will attempt to embed here. Bear with me as this is my second post and I have been using Blogger for all of about 15 minutes.

Mozart Requiem Mass in D Minor VI - Confutatis and Lacrimosa 

As far as my username or handle is concerned that will be answered in due time. :)

Well after fiddlng around with <div> and <iframe> codes, I got it going. Even though I may do IT for a living I barely touch web code, so bear with me as I re-learn what I have un-learned.

Hello world

I has a blog. Therefore I am no different than anyone else. This place will be used for random rants, musings, oddities, comments on issues affecting us in the digital age and finally just to annoy people.

Pull up a seat.