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Well, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Daily Source Code.

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Thank you very much for taking the time to download this mp3 file, or if some of you

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may have received it automatically overnight as an enclosure in your aggregator.

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In that case, thanks for subscribing.

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The first, what I'd like to do is explain exactly what this is, what the Daily Source

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Code is going to be, and well, as the name already suggests, it's something that's

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going to be daily.

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And I'd like to elaborate a little bit on the name Daily Source Code and what inspired

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me to do this, where that came from.

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By the way, I'm recording this in my car.

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I'm on the way from our home in Belgium to Breda in the Netherlands.

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Pick up new pair of glasses and contact with...

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Oops.

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It's a very important carriage.

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I think I'm going to have to take another route.

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Anyway, the Daily Source Code.

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Let me back up here for a second.

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I'm in a very narrow country lane and there's a horse and drawn carriage coming my way.

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So you know what?

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I'm going to just step over here and while I'm talking to you guys, I'll just wait for

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this guy to pass.

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When I was on vacation just recently in Sorrento, Italy, a couple of great things happened.

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First of all, as if by magic, my wireless microphone, which I had lost for a few months,

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I had the receiver apart but I just couldn't find the microphone part.

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It was left over from our reality show that we taped over a year ago and I bought a couple

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of really professional wireless mic kits.

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It cost about $2,000 each.

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So this is great, has great range and has a great sound.

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It's just fantastic.

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Professional stuff.

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So I found that in a suitcase that had been lurking there apparently for a couple of months

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I thought, well, alright, now I can finally start doing some audio blogging again.

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But also, I'd loaded up my iPod.

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You may or may not know that I have created a couple of scripts that

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parse some RSS feeds with enclosures and automatically downloads

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the MP3 files and adds them to my iTunes library and to my iPod.

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I'm subscribed to the IT conversations feed.

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And so I loaded that up.

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Wave to this guy here. Sure, buddy. Happy to do it.

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I loaded it up.

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And on there was a couple of conferences or a couple of sessions

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from the open source developers conference, I believe.

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And I forgot who the speaker was.

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Of course, I'll be sure to find out and link to him.

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I was talking about what source code really is.

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Is source code the actual script that runs that makes your computer

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do something or the machine code that sits underneath all that?

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Or is the source code perhaps?

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actually the written explanation, the English explanation, not just funky English that a computer can interpret,

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that explains what a program is supposed to do.

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And I kind of subscribe to that idea that maybe even an RFC or just a functional description of,

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okay, here's what I want this computer program to do, here's how it should behave.

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That is the actual source code, it's the thought behind what eventually gets written in computer code or scripting language.

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So if you think about a radio program or an audio program like this, you could, coincidentally, it's also called a program, right?

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I guess you could say that this is the source code to me.

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It's Adam's source code.

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And every single day, a bit of me is filtered through to the web, and I write about what I'm thinking, what I've been reading.

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You know, the links that I choose, the sites that I choose to link to, all that comes from a certain mindset on the website.

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on any given day or moment, and that's what I call the source code.

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So I figured if I have a web log and I've got all these links and stories, it might

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be of some interest to some people to listen to the source code where all the ideas come

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from.

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The narrative that's running around in my head that I can't possibly write down.

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other inspiration has been Dave Weiner, who started doing his morning coffee notes in

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audio a while ago, and he did almost a daily version during the blogging of the Democratic

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National Convention. And I'm addicted to it. I just love listening to his source code, basically.

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And his latest coffee notes, which he actually pleaded people to listen to, he made a very

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good point, which he and I have discussed before, and I think I've written about it

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on the web as well, is that we're coming to a head between bloggers and journalists.

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And it's all really about, hold on a second, in Belgium here we stop at the, we stop for

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pedestrians. Sure, man.

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recollect my thoughts here for a second.

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I didn't want to hit anybody.

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Hold on, let me just spark up.

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About a half hour drive-out.

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I'm trying to make this 15 minutes

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interview so many times, particularly in the Netherlands where my wife and I are very well

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known and are written about all the time in, unfortunately, usually just a tabloid magazine.

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Sometimes there's a serious article, but it really doesn't matter who's writing it or who

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did the interview or what credentials the journalist comes with. Once you read it in print, it's never

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100% what you intended or the way you said it and it often has, it's often opinionated by the

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journalist, the writer, which is obviously okay, but there's no link to the source. The sources,

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in that case, would be the conversation that we had for the interview, which could be anywhere

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from half hour on the phone to, oh, I've had interviews, for instance, the big Playboy magazine

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interview that takes two days, including a photo session. And that's still down to X number of words

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that the journalist has allotted and the space that is available for the story.

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So as I was thinking about that, there was something that I wanted to write about, which

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I will, but again, this is just my daily source code, so I'm kind of distilling through the

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thoughts right now.

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I found something that was really useful.

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I got so sick and tired of people just writing crap about us and wrong information and just

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you know, they couldn't even get my age right most of the time.

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Which usually was to my advantage.

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I remember there was a, at a certain point, there was a big thing and someone wrote about

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some supposed tax inquiry that was going on into my business affairs.

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That was on the front page of several newspapers, another newspapers, you know, pick up the

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story and it was on the news wires and all the actual errors would just pass from one

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to the next, like the kids' game of telephone.

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In fact, they usually got a little bit worse as one publication copied another.

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And there was another large daily.

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the newspaper that said, well, we really want to interview you and your wife about what's

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going on and what's happening. I said, you know, that's fine. Are you guys going to

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record the interview? It was for the newspaper. So a lot of, I'd say eight out of ten journalists

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record their interviews on usually still on a cassette player, portable cassette player.

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Some good little funky and have a new fast, new fangled gadgets like maybe a mini-disk,

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but very few MP3 recorders out there. Really just more memo recording devices. And I said,

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well, yeah, of course we're going to say, well, you know what, I'm going to record

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our interview as well. And I'm going to reserve the right to publish that. And that was something

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new. They agreed to it, which I think was absolutely the right thing to do. But they

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were definitely a little bit freaked out about this new concept. But I mean, when you think

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about it, hey, you know, you're recording me, what gives you the right to be the only one?

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I mean, I should be able to record our conversation.

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to. And I figured that that way if they start printing all kinds of factual, incorrect bits,

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or maybe even if they just interpreted it incorrectly, I would be able to point to the

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source, the source code of that interview and say, here you go. These guys clearly misunderstood

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me or they took this out of context. And I have to add something that also happens is

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I may have explained it poorly. I may have not communicated something that in a certain

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way and that just came out wrong. That happens probably most frequently. One second buddy,

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you want to move in here? Wow, doing this in the car really makes me a very nice and

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courteous road user. Okay, this is the big trash truck. All right, pal. When the article

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came out, by the way, and most generally, well, not most, but many journalists will give you

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read the story before it's printed and change anything. And said, you know, they did ask

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a couple follow up questions over the phone later. And the article was good. And I don't

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believe there was, I mean, you can't really change any article sound the way you want

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it to sound. But when it comes to the facts, these guys are really on their toes. They

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had recorded themselves and it was two guys did the interview. And it came out very well.

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And I think that part of that was because they knew that they really had to be on their

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toes and get it right because I would publish the source code. I never actually did publish

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the source code. I still have it. I felt that, you know, that just wasn't necessary. And

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in fact, just the idea that I could worked. So when you think about it that way, which

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is a great way that journalists and their sources can work together to make better to

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better results. Something that everyone who is ever interviewed might want to consider

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doing. So I just flipped that around and said, well, hold on a second.

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I've got source code.

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The source code is what's running around in my head.

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And it's what I'm reading and what I'm linking to and what my thoughts are.

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And I should make that available.

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The only thing that's going to cost is what just bandwidth.

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I mean, I have so much time to record stuff.

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I mean, the car a lot.

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But it's really no effort.

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And of course, I'm going to...

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And it gives me another opportunity to write a couple of nifty scripts that automates the

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whole bit and does the ID3 tags and posts it to the right place and adds it to my RSS

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feed as an enclosure.

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So all of that, of course, is the fun part for me is a fledgling developer and program

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or maybe I should say a scriptor.

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But again, you get all the source code for me if you're interested in it and you don't

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have to listen to it at all.

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You won't really lose it.

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So another reason that I'm doing this and I do plan on it being daily is that I like doing

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audio or radio.

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I've been doing a morning radio program.

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for almost a full year as of August 31st. I've done it for a full year for

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Radio Veronica in the Netherlands who asked me about a year ago this this time

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if I could fill in for a month because their new morning guy could get of his

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contract at a competing radio station and I can't even when they ask me

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damn you know a month of getting up at 3.30 in the morning to do a show from 6 to 9

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I don't know if I last three days the month went okay and I really got into it

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and I was enjoying it and a morning show is it's kind of like this you know

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you're talking to people you're helping them wake up and talking about topical

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stuff it's just what's going on in the world what's going on in the

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community which is the country of the Netherlands and I guess the community

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is a global community so you can talk about all kinds of stuff and we had a

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great time on that show I mean we took the ratings up sky-high actually in just

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taking the entire show on the road for a week and broadcast live from Camp Smitty and Asamawa, Iraq,

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where the Dutch Marines were stationed.

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Oh, well, so the morning guy for a number of personal reasons couldn't make it to the station,

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and they kept saying, well, oh, the station management kept asking me to extend by another week

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I said, well, you know what, why don't we just say we'll do this for a whole year,

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so I can actually build something and create something.

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And that's my traffic alert. Check this out.

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Very in navel, direct restoque es tar fesperz.

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Travo glan zam rifin a tarpo d'imitin van ai dresou van vediam.

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D'imitin van ai d'imitin van ai d'imitin.

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Okay, that's a traffic report cut and it happens automatically on radio.

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So we did it for a full year and that's winding down two more weeks.

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Yeah, a little over two weeks and then I'll be a free man for September 1st and Patricia

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and I and our daughter Christina who's coming 14 in just a week and a half. We decided that

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we want to change. Part of it for health reasons. Trish was diagnosed with heart disease earlier

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this year. Not as horrible perhaps as it sounds, but easy for me to say I guess. But it's not like

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she has massive heart failure heart disease but she has to pay attention to her life and

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what she's doing and is on medication and has to keep a very healthy lifestyle. And we want to

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change to really get into that and so we've decided that we're going to move and we're going to move

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out of the the Benalux and we've picked the United Kingdom. So we've put our our both houses up for

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sale the one in Amsterdam which I affectionately call the Bunker

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that's actually been on the market for about two and a half, almost three years now.

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The market is completely dead in most of Europe, I guess, and certainly for big luxury

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There's just, ah, there's no buyers really, unless of course you're willing to lower

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your price, there's always a buyer for something if they're bottom-feeding.

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We have the Castle in Belgium, which you've now put on the market.

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I've already had a lot of interest for that, of course it was also really the set, if you

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So a lot of people are familiar with it and we're pretty hopeful that that'll move relatively

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Price to sell, as they say, great house for entertaining everybody.

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And then we're off and then we're going to go to the UK.

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We're not, well, we know the general area where we want to be, which will be south of

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London, but within a reasonable car or train ride into the city.

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And I have

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a totally open agenda. There's nothing that I have to do. Well, first I want to remember

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what it's like to sleep in. You know, not have to set the alarm clock for 3.30 in the

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morning. But just by saying we're going to make this change, already things have happened.

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I'm getting all kinds of new, fresh, creative ideas. In addition, I've been asked to write

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a book. All kinds of things are just coming together. So I'm really looking forward to

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that in a way. It feels like I'm getting my freedom back. The one thing I do want to

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try to do is to do these daily source code, audio, blog posts. And I guess it would be

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since they're in English and to have an excellent advantage as a time difference goes. I'm going

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to try and have these up by, I guess, 7 a.m. New York time. So if you're driving to work

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and you have your download or automatically downloading the

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The MP3's from the RSS feed.

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You'll have something to listen to on your morning commute.

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That probably really won't be possible until the first of September when I'm not doing

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the morning show.

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I just can't see getting, you know, being done on the morning show at night in the

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morning, my time.

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I'm usually not home before to, you know, only give me a very small window before,

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well, actually that would already be too late.

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That would be 8 a.m. New York time.

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So these will probably be up around 9 or 10 a.m.

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for the couple of weeks, first couple of weeks.

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It also gives me a chance to figure out what I want to do with them.

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One of the thoughts I had for instance was to do a song of the day.

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Just get you going with one song that I think either fits in with the mood of the day

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or the news of the day or the state of the world or state of affairs.

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So I'm looking forward to that.

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And again, it'll be what's going on in my mind.

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What am I thinking about?

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And by that time, I probably posted five to eight entries on my web blog.

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And this will be the source code for that, what I was thinking about.

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Which is pretty much on par for what I've posted today.

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So that's the general idea.

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Um...

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As you can tell, there's a lot of talk of RSS and enclosures and MP3s in this first daily source code.

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You may or may not have read that I've been programming a little bit, been working in user talk,

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which is scripting language that comes with Frontier and Radio User Land,

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and also been doing some work in Apple Script,

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which allows you to script your Macintosh to do things automatically.

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And a little bit of Python, although I haven't delved into that as much as I want to.

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But I'm really working on a system that'll make this a little bit simpler when it comes to downloading stuff under your iPod.

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I have a kind of a beta version running now, and I'm subscribed to a big file.

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One is the IT conversations, which is great because almost every day there's a new interview or panel or session coming up.

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down the pipe and it's right there my iPod in the morning on my hour-long commute to

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the radio station. I just listen, you know, I didn't have to do anything, I didn't have

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to click or wait, just pick up the iPod in the morning, throw the headphones on, the earphones

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in and there's something there. Also, of course Dave's morning coffee notes is in there and

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something called blog, was it audio digger or blog digger? I'd have to look that up, which

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is an RSS 2.0 feed with audio enclosures. It comes from blog decks and it's just stuff

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that it's scraped off of the web and there's about 5 to 10 new MP3s on that as well. It's

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always very surprising, all kinds of wacky stuff that just kind of shows up. Total serendipity,

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if you will. I have no idea what's going to show up. A lot of it's crap, someone's very,

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very interesting. So I'll start pointing to that as well. So the script that I've created,

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doesn't work the way it should yet and I already lost that source code by

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accidentally compiling it in AppleScript and not knowing that you lose your source code.

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But I'm going to start working on that again in in the also after September 1st

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so that you know you don't have to really think about oh how am I going to do this

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what do I need with the news aggregator how do I get

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the mp3s from point A to point B now it should just be something as simple as

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start this program up and you subscribe to your RSS feeds and it kind of does the rest

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it just drops everything on your iPod and playlists and it even has a

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little notification system so you know when something is new has been updated.

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So I'm now just passing over the border into the Netherlands from Belgium. Thank you for accompanying me on the trip and

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Tomorrow, I'll be back with another daily source code. Thanks for listening and see you tomorrow. Bye