Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May

This MP3 Selection Expired on 05-05-2007:
Joan Morris, messo-soprano
Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May

Will You Love Me in December as
You Do in May (1905)

Words: James Walker (1881 -1946)
Music: Ernest R Ball (1878 -1927)

Vocal: Joan Morris, Mezzo-Soprano

Now, in the summer of life, sweetheart
You say you love but me
Gladly I give all my heart to you
Throbbing with ecstasy
But last night I saw, while a-dreaming
The future old and gray
And I wondered if you'll love me then, dear
Just as you do today?

Will you love me in December as you do in May?
Will you love me in the good old-fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray
Will you kiss me then, and say
That you love me in December as you do in May

You say the glow on my cheek, sweetheart
Is like the rose so sweet
But when the bloom of fair youth has flown
Then will our lips still meet?
When life's setting sun fades away, dear
And all is said and done
Will your arms still entwine and caress me?
Will our hearts beat as one?

Will you love me in December as you do in May?
Will you love me in the good old-fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray
Will you kiss me then, and say
That you love me in December as you do in May

Outsourcing

I received a humorus clip from a friend on how some moments of our lifes are affected by tech support, for better or for worst. I personally have had many such an episodoe - frustrated ones at that - talking with ATT-SBC tech support people who spoke difficult to understand English with heavy Middle Eastern or East Indian accents.

Duane Does The Twang Thang

Duane Eddy, Bass Guitarist
26 April, 1938   -

This Sidebar MP3 Selection Expired on 04-29-2007:
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Duane Eddy (1960)
The Peter Gunn Theme (Mancini)

Church eGroup Synergy

With auto post and comment notification email configured this evening, the men's e-group moderator has all the tools he needs to get him from "here to there."

Later this week, I will set up the same auto notification process with the ladies' e-group leader.

The final practical exercise for the two leaders is learning about inter-blog connectivity.  The two leaders will collaborate on the designing of an e-group survey questionnaire using mostly free Google on-line services.

This joint project has five parts.  First, the two leaders will learn to share an on-line calender created specifically for the survey project.   Second, they are to learn to use chat for impromptu dialog or planned live-discussions to flesh out the goal of the 10-question survey.    Then they will collaborate to write one questionnaire on-line.   When the survey questionnaire is completed, each leader will create a separate but identically survey for the two e-groups by using a non-Google survey service.  Finally, each of the moderator will place the survey link on the respective blog for the members to complete.

The fruits of blogging and inter-group synergy will usher in new vistas for conducting the business of heaven on earth.  What's learned will be passed on and improved upon by the next class.

And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.
-- 2 Timothy 2:2 (NIV)

Ay, There 's The Rub

Both our church men and women eGroup-blogs are now on-line. It was a pleasure of my helping both eGroup moderators to set up the blogs. Smoky and Pat, our church moderators for the men's and woman's eGroups, respectively, are very proficient with computers and the internet scene. Whereas the former has a good grasp of the blogging mechanics and "places for widgets", the latter has gone beyond blog-keeping and chores. She has turned the site into a fellowhship home true to the sense of the word internet for the women who joined.

These first eGroup men pioneers, including the moderator, might not be into much nurturing and support topical discussions. We shall see. The women, on the other hand, are very comfortable with this medium for devotions and fellowship. In fact, they are already asking about the quickest way or ways to view comments and expedite responses and prayers.

To the women eGroup, the blog is the "happening." The men, on the other hand, are still milling about the water's edge. They wrote comments like, "is this place (the blog) where we give feedback instead by email?" Or, "I am lost (in the blog). Can someone find me?" That's the fellas for ya.

Men's Team Blog

Tonight I will be heading over to the men's eGroup moderator office to get him set up for team blogging. This exercise will be a two-evening affair.

We will go over the essentials to get him started the blog. I think my being the co-administrator would ease much of the learning curve on his part. On Wednesday evening, we will set up auto notification on all posts and comments to the membership and what not.

One of My Favorite Spring Songs

This MP3 Selection Expired on 04-30-2007:

James Last and His Orchestra
April in Portugal (Ferrao)

It's the Real Thing

Eve Graham, Scottish-born Vocalist
19 April, 1943 -

This MP3 Selection Expired on 04-21-2007:
Eve Graham and the New Seekers (1972)
I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing


I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
The New Seekers
Eve Graham, Lead Singer

Music and Words: Roger Cook, Roger Greenway, Bill Backer, Billy Davis

I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow-white turtle doves

I'd like to teach the world to sing
    sing with peace
In perfect harmony
    perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company

I'd like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
    for peace throughout the land

That's the song I hear

I'd like to teach loud
the world to sing
    let the world sings today
In perfect harmony
    oh yeah

I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
    all the world over

[Bridge and Humming}

I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow-white turtle doves

    that's the song I hear

I'd like to teach the world to sing
    let the world sing today
In perfect harmony
    hand in hand
And I'd like to hold it in my arms
    and keep it company

That's the song I hear

I'd like to see the world for once
    let the world sing today
All standing hand in hand
    hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
    for peace throughout the land

That's the song I hear

I'd like to teach the world to sing
    sing it along
Let the world sing today
    all the world over

I'd like to teach the world to sing
    sing it along
in perfect harmony
    all the world over

I'd like to teach the world to sing
in perfect harmony...

Élégie

This Sidebar MP3 Selection Expired on 04-19-2007:

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André Gagnon (piano) - Élégie

In memorian, the deaths at Virginia Tech today:

"for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's__As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.__and so we shall always be with the Lord"
Romans 14:7-9__Psalm 17:15__I Thessalonians 4:17 NASB

Labeling Old Posts Affects RSS Feed Dates

I am in the process of labeling new and old posts. With the New Blogger, it updates the date and time stamps on all edits, including labeling posts. Subscribers to my blog RSS could see old posts showing up with new syndicated dates.

These posts, when viewed in full, still shown their original published dates.

Blogger Pat

I spent two evenings this week with Elder Pat to set up her blog for the Womens' eGroup. She has blogging in her Levi genes (a pun on the clothing manufacturer and on the old and new testaments meaning of priesthood). With Pat's blog on-line, our church's first eGroup is launched.

As for the mens eGroup, well, let just say we are lurching along eating Pat's cyberdust. We have yet to start a team blog. *grin*

A Club Med Masterpiece

Jean-Joseph Mouret, French Baroque composer
(11 April, 1682 - 22 December, 1738)

Here is to you, Alistair Cook.
The original recording and introduction to your hosting of
the PBS Masterpiece Theatre.

This MP3 Selection Expired on 04-19-2007:
Collegium Musicum de Paris
Rondeau - Premier Suite de Simphonies (Mouret)

National Cherry Blossom Festival, 2007

National Cherry Blossom Festival
Washington DC
March 31 - April 15, 2007

This Sidebar MP3 Selection Expired on 04-15-2007:
The Prague Philharmonic - You Only Live Twice (Barry)

Did the Sleepers Know?

This Sidebar MP3 Selection Expired on 04-08-2007 PM

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Frida Boccara (sung in French)
La Chanson Du Veilleur
(adapted from JS Bach Cantata 140 - Sleepers Awake)

Love’s Resurrection Day

Louise Chandler Moulton
(1835 -1908)

Round among the quiet graves,
When the sun was low,
Love went grieving,— Love who saves:
Did the sleepers know?

At his touch the flowers awoke,
At his tender call
Birds into sweet singing broke,
And it did befall

From the blooming, bursting sod
All Love’s dead arose,
And went flying up to God
By a way Love knows.

Where Shall We Learn to Die?

This Sidebar MP3 Selection Expired on 04-07-2007

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The Music from 'Ben-Hur'

Teach Us to Die

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
(1815–1881)

Where shall we learn to die?
Go, gaze with steadfast eye
On dark Gethsemane
Or darker Calvary,
Where through each lingering hour
The Lord of grace and power,
Most lowly and most high,
Has taught the Christian how to die.

When in the olive shade
His long last prayer he pray’d,
When on the cross to heaven
His parting spirit was given,
He show’d that to fulfil
The Father’s gracious will,
Not asking how or why,
Alone prepares the soul to die.

No word of anxious strife,
No anxious cry for life;
By scoff and torture torn,
He speaks not scorn for scorn;
Calmly forgiving those
Who deem themselves his foes,
In silent majesty
He points the way at peace to die.

Delighting to the last
In memories of the past;
Glad at the parting meal
In lowly tasks to kneel;
Still yearning to the end
For mother and for friend;
His great humility
Loves in such acts of love to die.

Beyond his depth of woes
A wider thought arose,
Along his path of gloom,
Thought for his country’s doom;
Athwart all pain and grief,
Thought for the contrite thief:
The far-stretch’d sympathy
Lives on when all beside shall die.

Bereft, but not alone,
The world is still his own;
The realm of deathless truth
Still breathes immortal youth;
Sure, though in shuddering dread,
That all is finished,
With purpose fix’d and high
The friend of all mankind must die.

Oh, by those weary hours
Of slowly-ebbing powers;
By those deep lessons heard
In each expiring word;
By that unfailing love
Lifting the soul above,
When our last end is nigh,
So teach us, Lord, with thee to die.

Crucifixus

This Sidebar MP3 Selection Expired on 04-07-2007:

Crucifixus
Writtenby: Antonio Lotti (1667-1740)
Performed by: Soli Deo Gloria Cantorum (1989)

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis
sub Pontio Pilato
passus et sepultus est

He was also crucified for us
suffered under Pontius Pilate
and was buried

--Lotti's text was taken from the Roman Catholic Credo at the time of Pope Pius IV in 1565

When The Twilight Is Gone

Tony Williams
Lead Singer of 'The Platters'
(5 April, 1928 - 14 August, 1992)

This MP3 Selection Expired on 04-10-2007:
The Platters (1956) - My Prayer

My Prayer (1939)

Words:Jimmy Kennedy (born in Northern Ireland in 20 July, 1902)
Music: Georges Boulanger (born in Romania in 14 April, 1883)

Number One Hit in 1956
The Platters:
Tony Williams, Lead Singer
(This is one of the songs in which the voice of Zola Taylor, the only female member of the original harmony group, was clearly heard)

When the twilight is gone
And no songbirds are singing
When the twilight is gone
You come into my heart
And here in my heart you will stay
While I pray

My prayer
Is to linger with you
At the end of the day
In a dream that's divine
My prayer
Is a rapture in blue
With the world far away
And your lips close to mine

Tonight
While our hearts are aglow
Oh tell me the words
That I'm longing to know

My prayer
And the answer you give
May they still be the same
For as long as we live
That you'll always be there
At the end of my prayer

MS Hotfix the Hotfix KB925902

Before going back to the Toshiba Satellite A105 Hotfix for the KB925902 Hotfix, I will wait until the hotfix dusts are settled on this patch.

If you'd stumbled upon or Googled this post, Microsoft has already put out a hotfix for KB925902. Click on the link below to download the MS fix for the fix:

MS Hotfix for User32.dll error caused by April 3 Windows Update

MS KB925902 - Bad Medicine for Toshiba Notebooks

The new MS Windows patch KB925902 released on 3 April, 2007 is not good for Toshiba Satellite Notebooks running on XP SP2.

After installation the patch on my A105 Series running on XP, I received a system error about User32.dll HHCTRL.OCX was illegally occupying a reserved memory area for Windows.

I had to do a system restore from 26 March, 2007 to rid this buggy patch. After which, I disabled the Windows Update Notify not to remind me to install this patch, notwithstanding the Windows Update history log says it was installed.

No Secret Anymore

Doris Day
American Actress and Vocalist
3 April, 1924 -

This MP3 Selection Expired on 04-05-2007:

Doris Day - Secret Love (1953)

Secret Love

Music: Sammy Fain
Words: Francis Webster
Movie: Calamity Jane (1953)
with Day in the starring role
Oscar: Best Music, Original Song (1954)


Once I had a secret love
That lived within the heart of me
All too soon my secret love
Became impatient to be free

So I told a friendly star
The way that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are
And why I am so in love with you

Now I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden daffodils

At last my heart's an open door
And my secret love's no secret anymore

[Bridge]

Now I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden daffodils

At last my heart's an open door
And my secret love's no secret anymore

Palm Sunday, 2007

Hosanna in the highest!
That ancient song we sing,
For Christ is our Redeemer,
The Lord of heaven our King.
Oh, may we ever praise Him
With heart and life and voice
And in His blissful presence
Eternally rejoice.

-- Third Stanza, "Hosanna, Loud Hosanna"
by Jeannette Threlfall, 1821-1880