Nate LaClaire

National Anthem

// January 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // Music

Sung by the cast of Glee live at the World Series game 3.

Lean on Me from Glee

// January 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Music

Starting the new year off right with “Lean on Me” performed by the cast of Glee. We all need somebody to lean on!

City on a Hill – I Heard The Bells / It’s Christmas Time

// December 31st, 2009 // No Comments » // Music

I love all of the selections from the City on a Hill series that I’ve heard so far, but especially this one.

Toy Packaging by Sara Groves

// December 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Music

I heard Sara Groves perform this song at a Christmas concert last year and fell in love with it. I’m not a fan of anime, but this was the best video I could find with the song.

The Christmas Can-Can by Straight No Chaser

// December 29th, 2009 // No Comments » // Music

You may recall that I love The Twelve Days of Christmas by Straight No Chaser. Well, here’s a new song by the a capella group. Enjoy!

Mary’s Boy Child / Oh My Lord

// December 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // Music

Love this song!

Thus begins my week of music. Five days, five songs. Four days of Christmas music, then a non-Christmas piece to start out the new year. Let me know what you think!

PubSubHubbub

// December 28th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Technology, Web Development

For the past few months, my blog has been participating in something called PubSubHubbub. Other than “something with a cool name,” what is PubHubSubbub? It is “a simple, open, server-to-server publish/subscribe protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.” Using the protocol, servers are able to get near-instant notification of feed updates (feeds are used by blogs and other sites to notify subscribers of new content). Using traditional technology, feed consumers (such as feed readers) periodically poll servers (such as a blog’s web server) for feed updates. This process works, but it wastes bandwidth and other resources since checking is done whether or not updates are available, while also causing delayed notification since polling occurs infrequently. PubSubHubbub fixes this by allowing feed consumers to receive near-instant notification of feed updates. It turns the traditionally-pull-based feed technology into a push technology, so that bandwidth and other resources are only used when actual updates are available and subscribers receive updates almost immediately. PubSubHubbub is a distributed system that is free and decentralized, meaning that no company is at the center of controlling it and anyone can run a “hub,” the component that sits between publishers (such as servers running blogs) and subscribers (such as Google Reader). As you can see in the demo below, this technology enables services to provide a greater level of real-time notification.

November 22 Worship Set

// November 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Music

This week at PBC we’ll be singing a few songs that were new to us this year (introduced over the past several months), plus a selection from the hymnal. Since they are still a bit new for some of us, here are some YouTube videos to help re-familiarize us with them.

Ancient of Days