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Podcasting Must Hears

I’ve been busy lately, real busy… But I thought I should at least take a few minutes to list off some of the stuff I’ve been listening to…

  • Daily Source Code [RSS] – Come on, it’s Adam Curry, ’nuff said right?
  • Evil Genius Chronicles [RSS] – Been listening to Dave since we started this stuff and he, Adam and I all had our own versions of ‘iPodder’ clients… Dave’s an interesting fellow, and always has something interesting to say.
  • The Dawn and Drew Show [RSS] – Yes, I’m probably to blame for getting Drew started on the podcasting thing. What can I say, I so proud… (!?!?)
  • Reel Reviews [RSS] – Brilliant! Film reviews that hit the target, dead on… I’m surprised there isn’t a link to Amazon to buy the DVD‘s, seems like a perfect match.
  • The Rock and Roll Geek Show [RSS] – I can’t say I love all the stuff Mr. Butler plays, but I’ve enjoyed the shows, and it’s pretty darn easy to skip the songs you don’t like (try that with radio!) Again, I’m surprised there isn’t an Amazon affiliate thing going on to sell CD‘s.
  • Coverville [RSS] – I’ve figured out the secret of Coverville, and it’s simple. It’s things that are familiar, but newly discovered all at once. Songs you probably know, done by artists you might now, but it’s all mixed up… or something like that. again, simple to skip the songs you don’t like, kicks the butt of radio.
  • Treo Podcast [RSS] – How can you not like a podcast where the host says “This is a special podcast, if by "special" you mean "drunk."”? Entertaining indeed!
  • Brainwagon Radio [RSS] – I really like the geeky topics of the show. Mark always seems to have some new gadget or experiment to talk about.

Wow, the list is a lot longer than last time we looked at my playlist. This isn’t even it, I just wanted to highlight a few… We still got Trade Secrets, all the stuff at IT Conversations, Eric Rice, Esc From the World!, Jimmy Jett… and the list goes on and on…

A while back Drew and I were discussing the fact that neither of us have really heard Lazer 103 since August… Hmmm, about the time podcasting started to take off… And what’s happening in Denver? Denver radio stations launch battle to win back listeners… Wake up RadioLand! It’s a Brave New World…

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Mixed Blood

I donated blood today, which is something I’d really like to do more often, but it’d hard to find the time in the 50+ hour work week to do so… Well, it’s the Holiday Season, so this is my donation to a worthy cause I guess.

Here’s my vitals for today:

  • Blood Pressure: 118/78
  • Temperature: 98.4
  • Pulse: 78

If you want to do something nice this year, go donate some blood.

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The Linux Guy’s Perl Packet

You must read The Blue Packet. Ok you don’t have to read it, I’ve pulled out the one nugget in the whole thing I found most amusing/relevant/true:

Some Linux guy in either Engineering or IT sets up a server that generates perfect blue packets with 3 lines of Perl code, but nobody notices him.

Ok, there is one more bit at the end…

The Linux guy eventually leaves the company to start his own Internet venture and ends up buying Google five years later.

(Still waiting for the second part…)

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Beep! Beep! Beep! Backing Up!

People, really… A public service announcement.

Make some backups!

My own backup strategy consists largely of something like this: 

ditto -V -rsrcFork /Users/pete /Volumes/Backup/Users/pete

Which, besides making a whole bunch of text appear on the screen, backs up your home directory, saving the resource fork, just in case!

That /Volumes/Backup is actually a drive on another machine, so now we’ve got a copy. Well, a few hours later we have a copy…

(See Also: man ditto)

(Non-Mac OS X users, you’re on your own here!)

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Marc C. and Marqui

Marc Canter has this idea, that bloggers (those who write on the web) should/could get paid just for writing about certain companies. I’m all for it. Heck, I’ll mention stuff for money, bring it on! (Waiting…)

There is a demo at the Marqui site starring some Jetson-lookalikes that explain what Marqui is about. In watching it, I couldn’t help but feel that Marqui is attempting to bridge what is commonly called “old media” with “new media” or maybe “big co” with “backchannel” or… no wait, I know… “lumbering media” with “agile media” – yeah that’s it!

Well, it’s an interesting experiment. I think it could work. I’ll continue to monitor the situation on my Apple PowerMac computer at the end of each day after I kick off my Converse All Stars and relax with a nice cool Sprecher’s Root Beer.

(Disclaimer: I don’t know what I’m talking about!)