Proverbs 14:4: "An empty stable stays clean, but no income comes from an empty stable." (NLT)
The Fox and the Hedgehog …
And … Motto #30:
"If you don’t have the time to do it right, where are you going to find the
time to do it over?"
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A couple of items of potential interest for technology podcast listeners:
- Slashdotreview.com is the featured podcast over at Podcast Alley
- Boing Boing reports that some of the original Screen Savers are going to get together on a regular basis and podcast. [NOTE: I listened to the first one. It was pretty good.]
- MAKE magazine is now podcasting
- FORBES magazine is now podcasting with a heavy on business focus
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I still have the basic setup outlined on the the 11th, but I have been doing some tweaking of the input levels. I do think I have the iRiver iFP-799 record level too low … at around 45. This seems like the right level for recording when I just have the Sony ECM-MS907 microphone going into it. But it might not be so good via the Rolls MX56S mixer. I also switched the option to record from line-in on the iRiver (not a microphone which is the way it is set when I don’t have the mixer setup).
I have posted some audio examples (at 128-kbps out of Audacity not the raw file from the iRiver Music Manager):
- Test-1.mp3 (460.7K): I am announcing RFID update conference. Billy Watson is in the background. Microphone level on the mixer is at "position" 3. Music is at "position" 2/3 down to 1.
- Test-2.mp3 (1105.2K): I am announcing RFID update conference. Amber DJ is in the back ground. Microphone level on the mixer is at "position" 3. Music is at "position" 1 during the voice parts.
- Test-3.mp3 (802.3K): I am announcing RFID update conference. Billy Watson is in the
background. Microphone level on the mixer is at "position" 3.5. Music
is at "position" 1 during the voice parts. - Test-4.mp3 (454.2K): This my standard intro for Tech Rag Tear Outs. Four MP3s played in a row. Only draw back from doing this in Audacity is that I can get them closer together. Maybe I will build the intro in Audacity the way I like it before doing a live show.
I also conducted a sit down interview with my "almost 4 year old" son Spencer:
- WithEditing.mp3 (2978.7K): This is the below raw file with some post processing in Audacity. I did an "amplify" and then a "compression." I think it sounds better. I’d probably do the same for the above if I was doing to publish them via Tech News Radio.
- NoEdit.mp3 (2978.7K): This is just the raw file direct from the iRiver.
So far my only complaint with the mixer is that there no visible position markings. So I am visualizing position 0 to be all the way off. Position 1 to be the 90-degrees up, position 2 to be at 180-degrees, and position 3 to be 270-degrees from off, and then position 4 to be "all the way on." I’ll probably borrow a white permanent marker from my wife’s scrapbook supplies and make some marks for reference.
Once nice thing about the Samsung YP-T5V MP3 Player (aka "Yepp") is that it lists files in playback order based on the alphanumeric value. So you can list items: 01-, 02-, 03-, etc. and get them to play back to back pretty easily.
One other thing that is apparent in this setup vice my standard Plantronics DSP-100 USB microphone. My custom-made PC has one very loud fan sitting on the AMD processor. It was something that I spec’d out wrong when I built it back in November 2004, but haven’t really had a reason to swap it out. Now I do … you can definitely hear the fan noise in the background. Either that or I’ll have to start recording in my tool shed?!? 😉
Let me know what you think.
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Forbes On Radio Podcast has been announced. I downloaded it and still have to give it a listen. I wasn’t sure what the subscribe feed is going to be. Anyone have a clue.
Also the following items caught my eye in the print edition:
Luggage Concierge: Pack your bags and ship them vice taking with you on the plane, train or automobile. [NOTE: We did this two years ago using UPS when we traveled to our summer lake vacation spot in Indiana. It made lugging stuff through the airport so much easier, especially with three kids.]
Want to own part of your own jet? They had a big article in the FYI section … they recommended the following companies: NetJets, FlightOptions, FlexJet, and CitationShares. [NOTE: I think Dann Sheridan should get in on one of these. Man the man is on travel a lot.]
Rogue Ales has announced three new XStreme ales: Imperial Pale Ale; Old Crustacean Barley Wine; and Imperial Stout.
Sony has a "high-end" technology division called Qualia that is selling "five" products including a digital camera for $3900, a rear-projection TV for $10K, and headphones for $2600.
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This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Friday, April 22nd, 2005. Today’s podcast contains three items of potential interest all focusing on database technologies.
First is a recent news item from Computer Reseller News that examined the new MySQL v5 that is expected to be released soon. Some key new features include: stored procedures, triggers, and views. Subscription support services will also be available starting at just under $600 per server per year.
Next is that I noticed that Dell is aggressively advertising in many of the tech magazines that they now offer a 5-user pack of Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One for Windows for $745, or you can get this bundled and installed on a Dell PowerEdge 1850 Server starting at $2949 with a reported savings of $700.
Lastly, an advertising insert called Developer Tools Roadmap publishing in Jan 2005, had a product highlight article on Sleepycat Software’s Berkeley DB that focused on the two optimized versions of Berkeley DB for native XML and the other for 100% Java. This tool also has application programming interfaces for C, C++, Perl, Python, and TCL. And it can also run customized platforms utilizing Linux, BSD Unix, VXWorks, and QNX.
For more information about the links mentioned in this podcast, or for
more details on how to subscribe to this podcast check out www.technewsradio.com. You can also send audio or email feedback to technewsradio@gmail.com; or you can leave audio comments by calling 206-337-1533. Have a great day.
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I came into work this morning, and the locksmith showed up and said he was here to fix my door lock to my ‘new’ office. I wasn’t that sure it was broken, but what are you going to do? He has a work order and I am seasoned enough to know sending him away is a pretty bad idea given what it probably took in paperwork to get him there in the first place.
So, he does his work, and then leaves the big mess on the floor. Great … how am I going to clean that up I am thinking.
Not 20 seconds later … a "floor cleaning supervisor" shows up and says, today is your day to have your carpets cleaned if you want them?!?
Nice …
I might not get the notifications that work is going to be done, but someone is sure doing a great job of coordinating them.
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Two of my favorite podcasters Michael Geoghegan and Dan Klass have announced a podcasting book.
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Hello faithful listeners and subscribers of Tech News Radio. I am sorry that there have not been any new posts since Friday of last week. Let’s be honest. This is not my full-time job. And the full-time job that I have, has been keeping me very busy the last two weeks.
And I haven’t quite started to make enough money from podcasting to hire a staff to do the pre- and post-production which would in theory fix all my podcasting troubles.
All that being said, I think I have made some adjustments to my personal and work schedules to better enable regular podcasts starting next week. Thanks for your support.
If you are looking for some podcasts to hold you over … check out www.techpodcasts.com, and I highly recommend some of the more recent Dave Winer’s Morning Coffee Notes (minus the singing ones). They have been excellent.
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Getting the best information and applying it to the right problem at hand is one of the areas that I love about the Internet. It enables this in ways not yet completely understood.
Sometimes I see this when I decide to read all my RSS feeds instead of deleting them outright because I don’t have time. And then while I am making this time from solving some other problem, I’ll be rewarded with a nugget of info that is actually a problem solver to something else or maybe to the problem I was worried about enough to consider deleting my unread RSS.
The same is true to a degree with comments to RSS posts. Most readers of an RSS don’t see them, and that is a shame. For instance, this one from Tom is great if you are thinking about getting a GPS unit:
New comment has been posted on your blog "Steve Holden’s Weblog," on the post
"Tuesday
(050412) Link Fest."- IP
Address: X.X.X.X - Name:
Tom Lawless - Email
Address: <removed> - URL: http://sarmedic.blogspot.com
- Comments:
The eXplorist is not the best Magellan product. Best being
a subjective term. The eXplorist series is a very pretty, easy to use entry
level GPS with a big price. If you were to look at Magellan products that give
you the maximum flexibility between city directions and wilderness orienteering
you would want something like the Magellan SporTrak color or Meridian color. My
big issue with the eXplorist is that it does not support the many other map
datums such as Lat/Lon, UTM, OSGB, MGRS, Swiss, Irish, Finnish, German, Swedish,
French, USNG, User Grid that when you truly NEED a GPS you will have to have.
Example Lat/Lon is aviation oriented, giving someone these coordinates over a
cellphone a helicopter can come rescue you. Also, UTM is the military version
and all Search and Rescue teams use these coordinates. If you ever imagine
yourself out of the city and in the wilderness I would make sure that my GPS has
these datums and that I take the 10 minutes reading the manual to understand how
to enable them. Cheers, Tom - IP
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Steve Holden's Blog 