It appears Craig Shoemaker’s Polymorphic Podcast is a year old this month. As a side-effect of running through his year as a podcaster Craig gives out some great tips on how to start, grow and publicize your own podcast. This special show is under 15 minutes long and I recommend everyone listen to it. If [...]
Archive for January, 2006
There is a lot of bad advice going around about hooking up a PC to a Plasma TV + I have seen several people driving their Plasma TV at 800×600 from their PC. Last week I bought an ED Maxent Plasma ($1200) so can finally comment: What I knew people were missing is that most modern [...]
HanselMinutes (.Net and Tech Tools) Scott Hanselman has utilized Carl Franklin’s skills (or vice-versa) to deliver a well produced podcast right out of the box. Scott agrees with me that many podcasts are full of fluff and he tries hard to be different. He has often said that Podcasting Sucks, and I would like to [...]
It looks like Google is heading towards an ‘everything-casual-PC-users-need’ on their desktop pack: http://pack.google.com/ Scott already made excellent comments on the s/w so I won’t repeat his comments other than to say Acrobat is not ‘that’ evil (unlike the Real Player), but I am swapping to FoxIt asap: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=b93fd18e-82cd-4038-9a1b-d7ed224d46ad So it appears Google is attempting to get the [...]
Given that my recent review of the Polymorphic Podcast was based mostly on vague memories amends have been made and I listened to six recent episodes since. The original ‘review’is repeated later, but be assured that the new text is still honest sans-hype. Always covering positive and negatives is something of a trademark; it even [...]
Remember the debate over the word podcast? Bet you probably know someone who a better word for ‘compressed audio file transmitted via http and an RSS enclosure’ right? Media Cast, Radio Me, Audio Blog are just a few of the plethora of suggestions we heard; PodCast was just to aligned with Apple for most of [...]
After finding Chris’, Paul’s and Wally’s posts interesting I followed their lead: Professional Highlights of 2005 Lariam is really wearing off; I am rarely out-of-it now No longer on a H1-B work visa so the 50% agent’s cut has gone <big g> Speaker skills hugely improved with experience of different states and audiences over 100 [...]
Neighbors must wonder what is wrong with my finances; One year I’ll be driving a $3K used hatchback and the next a new BMW. The sticker cost of a car often has little correlation to the enjoyment it gives. As someone who obsesses over details the overall cost of car ownership is something I am [...]
