We all have different taste in home office music. We typically have a lot of interest, but like to work to a particular style. For me, the music of choice are crooners. Mid-century stuff like Frank, Deano, Sammy, Tony, Perry and the rest. Typical radio offers too many interruptions and commercials. IPods, CDs, and MP3 players require some degree of control and distraction. Also, if you are looking for news or opinion or sports to help you through the day, then players will not work. CNN.Com or other websites are not an option because they interrupt, as opposed to enhance, your work. In other words, it is hard to watch CNN on your computer screen if you are trying to do online research or keyboard in a document.
For me it is Internet radio. Specifically Live365.Com offers you a choice of thousands of stations to suit your tastes. They have a premium service in which the company will guarantee you access and no commercials, but I would pass. Otherwise the service and stations are FREE! I rarely get knocked out of a station I like, and for commercials most true Internet stations play just one spot every few songs. Many stations are programed by armatures, just like the radio station version of bloggers. In fact, you can start your own Internet station by just clicking on the appropriate button on Live 365. You can run the music in the background while you work on other programs on your computer.
My personal favorite?
That would be The Blue Light. Currently playing while I'm posting, Ella Fitzgerald's Let's Call The Whole Thing Off from her Gershwin Songbook album. It followed Dean Martin singing Goodnight My Love. It is being followed by Ray Conniff's version of Buttons and Bows. And of course if you hear something you just have to have, you can stop what you're doing momentarily and download the song to your computer for loading on your MP3 player.
This is a required Internet accessory for any Third Wave law firm wanting to keep his or her sanity.
Ah yes =) These are familiar sound from the Newton Third Wave Law office! Yay Deano!
Posted by: Mary Newton | October 31, 2006 at 08:12 PM