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While just letting the OpenPodcast.org material play, I came across some band podcasting their practice. Genius! What a use of podcasting!

The band is the nineteenthirteen massacre, and here’s a bit from their bio:

Formed in February 2005, the nineteenthirteen massacre quickly implemented an RSS feed to offer listeners an alternative to mass media controlled propaganda. D.I.Y. in their punk roots, and disgusted with the direction in which music industry is headed, podcasting and the nineteenthirteen massacre were a natural match…

Even if their music isn’t your cup o’ tea, these guys are breaking new ground. If I was 15 years younger, it’s exactly what I would have done. ;)

Hey, you wanna hear some dork talk to another dork? Then check out the most recent Weekly Ramble.

(This is the longest you’ve ever heard me talk on a podcast, guaranteed!)

I went out EasterSkating today… What is EasterSkating? It’s when you go out skating on Easter. Any other day it would be called RasterSkating, but we’ll make an exception today. I mean, it’s not like Easter is really observed as a holiday anyway, not like Groundhog’s Day, right?

The details? It was sunny out, and over 40 degrees, and I went about 2 miles. I didn’t fall (came close once) took about 4 breaks to stare at the river, waterfall, lakes, etc… Perhaps in the summer I’ll offer RasterSkating Tours of the area… Well, that’s if my RasterCanoe Tours idea doesn’t take off.

I’ve got the search working again, this time using mnoGoSearch, which I must say I’m finding extremely nice!

It’s all written in C, and it’s fast, and it stores data in MySQL and you can use templates, and blah, blah, blah…

I first saw mnoGoSearch about 6 years ago when it was called UdmSearch, and it’s improved quite a bit since then. Hooray for open-source search software.

I’ve still got some work to do customizing the template, and in setting up an indexing schedule, but so far I’m very impressed, as are the people I’ve shown it to. Neat!

Ok, it’s time… 2005 is the year I will actually learn Java. No. Really. I mean it this time. Of course I’m excited… No I’m not being sarcastic! Really.

In fact, I’ll be in Minneapolis for the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium next month.

It’s been many years since I’ve been to Minneapolis, so that will be interesting. I’m not actually sure I will make it, but if the RasterMobile! can make the trip, I will be there.

I mainly need to learn a lot more about JSP, since I’ll be hacking at that this year. From my experience so far with JSP, it’s pretty much like PHP, or ASP, or (shudder!) ColdFusion, But with, you know, Java.

It’ll be nice to be forced to… I mean, able to learn something new. Heck, who knows? I might even release some JSP-based app? (Of course I won’t actually run it on my server, since I don’t run Tomcat…)

Ok, come on now, I’m serious, it will be cool to learn more Java. There, I’m done.

(If you’re going to be at the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium in Minneapolis April 29th through May 1st, let me know…)