Die Krähe

For an aspiring singer with only QWERTY hands and no skill whatsoever to handle a piano, life can be difficult. My dear mother pointed me to a goldmine, aptly named Classical Karaoke. The site holds a collection of accompaniments to the usual stuff; you can find some of the most commonly sung works by well known composers, especially it seems from the classical and romantic era (only baroque I managed to find was Händel and Bach, and I got no matches for contemporary artists). Yes, the piano is rightout hideous, but I still think it is better than no piano at all. The only real complaint I have is that your only means of browsing the works is performing searches. Considering how little common agreement there is to russian ortography, or how ludicrously many misspellings there can be to an artists name, I would have appreciated an alphabetical listing of sorts, too. But me not complaining… listening to synthetic tuba singing Irrlicht. ROTFL.

Now this is something for forgetful people - PassPack is a service for saving your passwords online. Concerned about security? Well, I’m suspicious enough I don’t think this is something I’d put my credit card info on. But I can remember only so many passwords and at the moment, I’ve way crowded my memory space. The biggest problem is actually those services I don’t use so regularly, those are the ones that are really hard to remember when you finally need them. So there’s acutally a whole bunch of passwords of rather low sensitivity I’d rather not have to remember. This is certainly a better alternative to writing down passwords on small paper notes (which I am sure to misplace) or using the same passwords over and over again.

Found via franticindustries.

After some browsing, I found a more comprehensive list of Lotte Lehmann’s recordings. There are some selected opera arias, a nice list of lieder and, delightfully, 25 of her very first recordings dating all the way back to 1914.