Category Archives: Arts

Bach Edition

Posted on 19/9/2007 by Piotr P. Karwasz

In an effort to avoid searching for CDs all around my flat, I begun to transfer them all to my hard drive in the lossless FLAC format and enter their data into Musicbrainz database. The most time consuming part was … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons and Bittorrent

Posted on 14/4/2006 by Piotr P. Karwasz

      La fille d’Octobre ­- Hurle-Vent MP3 192k Ogg 260k MP3 192k Ogg 260k While looking for a standard way to incorporate Creative Commons metadata to BitTorrent torrents I found some interesting applications of both technologies to the … Continue reading →

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Blog Story: the beginning

Posted on 8/7/2005 by Piotr P. Karwasz

A man climbs a mountain in order to detach himself from reality. Continue reading →

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Blog Story: the rules

Posted on 8/7/2005 by Piotr P. Karwasz

I tried many times to write a novel, but because of many time constraints and a lack of imagination, I never managed to finish one. Hence I’ll try another approach: I’ll write the beginning of a story on my blog … Continue reading →

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Miser Catulle

Posted on 26/5/2005 by Piotr P. Karwasz

Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire, Et quod vides perisse perditum ducas. Fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles, Cum ventitabas quo puella ducebat Amata nobis quantum amabitur nulla. Ibi illa multa tum iocosa fiebant, Quae tu volebas nec puella nolebat. Fulsere vere candidi … Continue reading →

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Abuse of language

Posted on 15/3/2005 by Piotr P. Karwasz

The abuse of language is one of the aspects of human communication that displeases me more. Most languages have synonyms that have already lost every difference in the sense, beyond phonetic aspects. Obviously most people use the language at the … Continue reading →

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Love

Posted on 26/2/2005 by Piotr P. Karwasz

My today’s fortune cookie says: Tell me why the stars do shine, Tell me why the ivy twines, Tell me why the sky’s so blue, And I will tell you just why I love you. Nuclear fusion makes stars to … Continue reading →

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Wikimonography – Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin

Posted on 26/10/2004 by Piotr P. Karwasz

In order to add something to my neverending projects I have started the Wikimonography – Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin. It is part of an überproject of Multimedia CDs intended to provide a complete encyclopedia about the best authors and musicians of … Continue reading →

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Souvenirs

Posted on 22/10/2004 by Piotr P. Karwasz

Je ne sais pas si ça mérite, mais voilà une poésie d’autres temps, plus heureux : To the pretty girl with curly black hair A great sadness pervades my heart, The sun falls down and comes the night, Throwing darkness … Continue reading →

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