Was listening to some radio, came across Barbara Stozzi and decided to look her up…why? why? I tell you – its like reading french…and not knowing how to read french…

 

Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle) (Baptised August 6, 1619, Venice - November 11, 1677, Padua) was an Italian Baroque singer and composer. She was the adopted, and most likely illegitimate, daughter of Giulio Strozzi. Giulio incorporated her into his series of discussion groups, or academies, particularly the “Accademia degli Unisoni”, wherein she was both called upon to sing, and to contribute to the discourse. Her father arranged for her to study with composer Francesco Cavalli.
Until recently, it was believed that Strozzi was a courtesan, since she was unmarried and since her relationship to her father’s friends in the Accademia degli Unisoni was referred to as licentious. However, evidence that at least three of her four children were fathered by the same man (Giovanni Paulo Vidman) indicates that she was probably his paramour, or mistress, at least while he was alive. After his death it is likely that Strozzi supported herself by means of her savvy investments and by her compositions. Although she dedicated her publications to several important figures, including Ferdinand II of Austria and Sophia, Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg, there is no evidence that these “patrons” directly supported her.
Strozzi is unique among both male and female composers for publishing her works in single-composer volumes, rather than in collections. Her output is also unique in that it is comprised entirely of vocal chamber music, rather than opera or instrumental music. She published, if not composed, more in this genre than any other composer of her time. In addition to composing, Strozzi was considered to be a virtuosic singer.
The vast majority of her works are for Soprano and continuo, suggesting that they were written for Strozzi herself to sing. Her compositions are firmly rooted in the seconda prattica tradition, exemplified in the works of Claudio Monteverdi, but her works have a more lyrical emphasis, based in the strengths of the voice itself. Many of the texts for her early pieces were written by her father Giulio. Other texts were written by her father’s friends, and possibly by herself.

Today I decided to don my suit, shiny(well, almost) shoes – iron a shirt, put on some cuff links(well not really, I’m talking about the ones that go in the collar, but anyways) and show up at work looking vaguely smart. Hasn’t made the impact that I wanted but hey, there you go – I mixed it it for Tuesday!

Laugh at my suit and….I kill you!

I could not describe the frustration I encountered today. so much so that I've decided to just take a random photo of today.

this is a rant. brilliant - good luck.

What drives me mad is too many "good" ideas all over the place, ideas that are thrown around but are not looked after. What does that mean? Well primarily not taking responsibility to carry the ideas further than the inception of the idea. It's easy to have a "good" idea, it's entirely different to see if the idea integrates with all the constituents of a solution. At the surface, an idea may enhance or make easy meeting of a particular requirement, however if the impact of the idea compromises the integrity of the entire solution, it's a good idea but not really. A good idea takes into consideration the rest of the solution. A solution as far as I can see is made up of many ideas supplementing each other and not working against each other. A good idea is looked after right from inception in ones mind, stays there and during this time the person who's idea this is is responsible for determining if the idea fits with the solution or if not, how the solution should be modified to take advantage of the idea. After this takes place, an idea has depth, it almost has a plan of implementation.

So for me having to build a solution based on "good" ideas leaves me with trying to determine if they are indeed good in context to the proposed solution, not that this particularly is a problem but it's ease by which an idea provider, assumes that a single requirement solving idea fits perfectly with the other requirements of the solution.

What's even worse is when the idea provider "knows" that his idea is right, and forces you to incorporated into your solution and your left with other pieces falling apart because of it.

This of course assumes that you have partly implemented your solution partially already - the argument here is not to implement the solution until all the requirements have been satisfied.

The problem then is what if you don't know what the requirements are?

Don't know what the requirements are?! You'll always know what the requirements are? Surely most of them? 'cmon ...

Welcome to Software Development.

keep your arms and legs inside at all times...or they will be cut off.

Rant over.