The End of Bittorrents for My Podcast?

In the first month or two of this podcast (way back in fall of 2004) I did an experiment of publishing episodes of my show as bittorrent files and putting them in a special feed for that. At the time, most or all of the podcatchers anyone was using supported bittorrent. The experiment was so [...]

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RIP, Jim Beauchamp

Former Atlanta Braves coach and player Jim Beauchamp has died at age 68 of leukemia. He’s one of those guys in my head inextricably linked with the conversion of the Braves from sad sack cellar dwellers to the powerhouse national contenders that they have been for most of two decades now. He was also serving [...]

Vacation Time

I had a fine xmas and I hope that everyone else had a fine holiday of whatever they celebrate. We haven’t actually done our holiday travel yet, that happens later. By having such low stress over the actual days themselves, it gave the whole thing a completely tranquil air that I just loved. Like I [...]

EGC Clambake for December 24, 2007 – “New Media XMas”

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for December 24, 2007.
I play a holiday song that is a big favorite around here from Jill Sobule; I talk about Xmas and the “War Thereupon” and celebrating as an atheist; I rail against consumerism; I talk a little more about the [...]

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Vacation Time

I’m on vacation now until the 2nd of January. I’ve been thinking back and I’m pretty sure eleven days off is the longest stretch I’ve ever had out of work when I wasn’t actually unemployed. I’m in day two of it now and the enormity of having NINE! MORE! DAYS! off is beginning to sink [...]

Blacklisted

One of the best things that has happened to me in the new media era is that I occasionally get to talk to Tony Kahn. I love that guy as a person, as a broadcaster and as a wit. A while ago he was nice enough to give me a copy of the series he [...]

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Vlog Archeology

After a few weeks of fiddling with the Zune, I have cleared my vlog backlog for the time period from August to the present. When I finished watching those episodes, I started pulling in old files I’ve been saving on my external hard drive. Over the last few days I have imported all the files [...]

Zombie Me

We’ve been back from San Francisco since late Thursday night but I haven’t blogged because I’ve been in sort of a weird haze. I’ve napped a lot, underperformed a lot of things I would like to have done and generally been a lump. I opted to go into work for the one day Friday, which [...]

San Francisco Days

I’ve been doing a lot of twittering of details of this trip but no blogging. It’s hard to tell when this ephemera rises to the level of deserving a post so I’ll just lay down some groundfire of details.
After our miserable travel day on Monday, the first order of the day was to get Darlene [...]

Tight Connections

The tour of delayed flights continue. So instead of leaving Myrtle Beach at 7:20 AM, we left at 11 AM. We had a leisurely layover in Charlotte where we had lunch at the delicious barbecue joint in the concourse and got a Starbucks. With the free wifi, we had an hour or so that we [...]

OpenID

Quite often I’ve seen blogs that for their commenting system they have OpenID as an option. I always skip that because I don’t have one. Well, actually I do. I did not realize this but anyone with a number of existing accounts have OpenID built in. Technorati is one of them, so I started using [...]

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MYR: My New Home

We’re trying our darndest to get out of Myrtle Beach and on to San Francisco. Thick fog last night kept planes from landing so that the flight we were supposed to take at 7:20 AM couldn’t happen – there was no plane to leave! We originally were slated to take a no connections, one stop [...]

Technorati Claim

Bogus post to reclaim my blog on Technorati. It was claimed as the old blosxom version.
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Green Christmas

Watching the weather tonight we saw that the high today in Chicago was 22 Fahrenheit. It was 76 here. We took a quick walk on the beach and it was plenty warm enough to have laid out on it. Now I really enjoyed living in Evanston and spending time in downtown Chicago but let’s get [...]

Led Zeppelin Roller Coaster

Alright, I for once clicked a YouTube link for some video of a test of the Led Zeppelin roller coaster at the Hard Rock theme park. That does look pretty bad asssed. This park is close enough to my office that it would be feasible to get a season pass and go there at lunch [...]

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Name our Conference Round Two

Many thanks to all of you who suggested names for the Myrtle Beach conference. They have been whittled into a shortlist, and now it is time to enter the nomenclature gladiator arena. Please go and vote for your favorite, and you are welcome to vote whether or not you plan on attending. Let’s turn this [...]

Board Game Geek Gift Guide

I’m not really much of a gamer of any stripe. I have a tendency to buy games like Netrunner and INWO and then never actually play them. I used to listen to and enjoy the Board Game Geek Geek Speak podcast even though I had almost never played any of the games they talked about. [...]

APM Was Listening!

A few weeks ago I posted my open letter to APM about their Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor as it is podcasted. I was pleasantly surprised this morning to realize that my suggestions had been taken. The ID3 tags now include the date of the show rather than all having the same one, and the [...]

RIP, Hank Reinhardt

I missed notice of this last month, but on October 30th Hank Reinhardt died at age 73. He was a longtime southern science fiction fan, weapons historian and founder of Musuem Replicas from where I have shopped a few times. Back at the 1992 World Fantasy Convention in Callaway Gardens, I had a fun 30 [...]

EGC Clambake for December 2, 2007 – “Shindigs and Doing Stuff”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for December 2, 2007.
Played a song by Chris Yale; I talked about my evening at the South by Southeast fundraiser; I segue from that into our ideas for our Myrtle Beach conference;
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