My new favorite quote is from Martin Luther. He was complaining in the New Preface to Rauscher's "Geistliche lieder auffs new gebessert" about folks who would change his songs and then reproduce them without his permission, and he said the following:
... I am afraid it will be the same with this little book as it has been with all good books: it will be overwhelmed and devastated by the clumsiness of emptyheads, the good will be lost from it and only the useless retained, as we see in St. Luke, chapter one, that at the beginning everyone wanted to write a gospel, until the true gospel was nearly lost under so many gospels. The same has happened to Sts. Jerome and Augustine, and to many other books. In sum, there will be mouse dung in the pepper.
Martin had a way with words!
Well, in the past I've heard that its hard to find software for Apple, that there are tons more programs for windows--however, with unix running behind the scenes in my PowerBook, there are tons of programs that have been ported to run in Mac.
I'm downloading a desktop layout program (Scribus) to check it out and if it does what I need as far as layout, then I won't be upgrading to Quark XPress on Mac (Quark wants $299 to upgrade to the current version, and another $200 to switch me from Windows to Mac).
I also am investigating various music notation file exchange formats to decide what music notation software I want to install--there are apparently a bunch of free music applications which run in unix/Mac OS X and export to standard file formats, for readability in mainstream programs like Finale and/or Sibelius.
Earlier this evening I installed TeX typesetting software, so I can start creating beautiful PDF documents without having to worry about the layout as I write them. I may also grab MusiXTeX if it can export files to a open standard file format.
Oh, and the Greyfriars coffee is good, as usual.
Our IT guy spoke to soon the other day; so I won't be able to use wireless internet in the office during lunch. That's not too bad, though, because now I've got more of an excuse to head out to a coffee shop over my lunch break.
I'm on the internet wireless at work on a separate network our IT guy set up (separate from the corporate VPN) which lets me blog, email, etc. over lunch. Thing is, he just told me, and lunch is past, so I best get back to work.
and yes, I am on my new G4 Powerbook using Airport wireless. cooool!