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Hi everybody and welcome to today's source code. That's Jesse, my dog, saying hi as well.

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On a second. Well, I got to start off with a gripe right off the top. I've spent hours

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today trying to find software that will do what I wanted to do to record these shows.

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I'm sorry, go ahead.

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And it wasn't easy searching the web today because we had not one but two different families

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come to check out the house, see if they want to buy it.

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Which, you know, it's kind of crazy. Anyway, so I mean, I've been looking around and there's

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plenty of software if you want to stream stuff live to a shout-cast server or live 365.

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But nothing, excuse me, that actually includes the ability to mix more than one of those

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to MP3s together and to also have a microphone channel, at least not for Macintosh. So if

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anyone has any ideas, love to hear about them. Let's see. Well, yeah, because one of the main

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reasons actually that want to have that type of a setup is, you know, for stuff like a

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song of the day. I've done some experimenting with keep holding the mic up to the speaker,

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but it sucks. Yeah, if I'm going to put songs on, then might as well sound good, or at least

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halfway decent. One to just stop briefly and think for a second about Julia Child, who

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passed away yesterday, age 91, which I, it's a nice age actually, I guess, if, you know,

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but she's one of these people that's been around for just, you know, forever for generations.

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I remember as a kid living in Kensington, Maryland, Julia Child came to cook at the local,

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I think it was the high school.

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and you can hire pleasant view high or something like that.

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And, yes, she cooked up a big, big batch of spaghetti and meatballs and families.

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I could, you know, for a couple dollars ahead go eat there.

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And I remember distinctly the food was really good, although a bit lukewarm by the time

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we got ours.

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I remember my parents were like a little bit tense.

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They were a little bit tense about the service, which of course was done by high school kids.

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So people who came in after us were served before us.

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Anyway, but it was good.

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I do remember that.

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And I actually found a Julia child quote and she had a lot of really good ones through

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the blog digger enclosure feed.

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Check this out.

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Now, hold on a second.

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See, this is why I need good software to do this for me.

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Okay, here's that quote again.

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Just boil it in a big pot of scone

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Just boil it in a big pot of scone

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See other things I sometimes caught my eye was a Paris Hilton

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Her dogs gone missing her her was a pet chihuahua

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I gotta say I really like the Paris Hilton reality show the one she does with Nicole Ritchie

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Even though it's not officially being broadcast in Europe yet. I don't know maybe it's gonna start in September

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I've I've seen the entire first season and I'm up to almost up to speed on the second season

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because of the bit torrent feeds and able to

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Download an episode well maybe two or three days after it's been aired

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and I'm using

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This great program called nucleus. I've linked to it before

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it's basically it's a little Python application script and

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I have it sitting on the

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server at my data center and it has keywords and it can only it's it's pretty

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rudimentary but so it can only read one RSS feed and it looks for keywords which

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are just basic search terms so I've got in their simple life growing up Gody

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which is a new show that I just started just started watching. Hi Christina.

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That's my daughter Christina.

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He's going to use the other computer, so I'll just walk outside to talk for a second to

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you guys.

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So back to the keywords.

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It's really great because it just sits there, it parses through this big RSS file that comes

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in and it's updated very regularly.

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The TV torrents.

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And when it catches one of those keywords, it downloads it.

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So of course I'm also getting some serendipitous content.

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Not everything that has the keywords simple and life in the title is Paris Hilton's reality

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show.

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And then once it's in there, I get notified and then at my convenience I just download,

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batch download, all the new files which is a pretty fast link.

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And that way it saves me a lot of hassle and the aggregation is 24 hours.

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So basically it's the last yard.

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It's on my server just not at the house yet.

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And what I really like about Nucleus is that it doesn't leave your torrent files open.

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So it just sucks it in and of course while it's downloading a file and it doesn't one

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at a time which also helps on flooding the pipes.

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It is uploading but once it's done it's done and then it goes on to the next torrent.

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Because last night I downloaded a torrent here which is a 250 meg torrent file and this morning

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when I woke up I had pushed out over 750 megs and like you know that was more than I thought

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I had to offer it and not that I would mind about the cost or anything but I literally

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can't buy more upstream than with from my ISP here in Belgium.

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Well, I'm just gonna take a look at my notes for a second.

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Right.

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So that's one final thing.

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Last night, watched the Olympics, the opening ceremony,

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which was prime time here in Europe.

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And I thought that the Greek did a pretty good job.

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Their opening show wasn't as made for TV

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as it was, for instance, in Los Angeles or Sydney.

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But the show definitely was good.

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And water is always hard to do on television

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to make it look really spectacular.

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What I thought was, well, first of all, there was DJ Chiesto,

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who was our pride and joy in the Netherlands.

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He was spinning all the dance music

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during the presentation of all of the athletes

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from all the countries as they walk around the track

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and then collected into the center.

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That was so very cool seeing him.

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He's been voted top DJ of the world

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for the, I think, the past three years, consecutively.

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What caught my eye is that the number of video cameras

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cameras and digital still cameras but the athletes who were being presented the crowd

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carried with them was like wow that I'd love to see some of that footage or some of those

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pictures and you know we have all the bits we could connect them all together. I'm presuming

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that they have some kind of internet access in the in what is it in the Olympic Village

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but maybe they even have Wi-Fi I don't know but it should be just as simple as plugging

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your camera into your laptop and basically saying broadcast this. And I think there's

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two sides to that equation and I'm trying to fix the first side just working on it in

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audio to make the iPod more than just something that you sync to iTunes. I want your iPod

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to be a receiver in a way where you put it in its cradle to charge and it loads it up

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with new audio from the web.

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and that's it.

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And it should be seamless.

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You don't have to think about it and it should let you know.

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And it should, you know, that it's done that and it put it

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into a perfect playlist.

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And I've been hacking around with that, which is pretty easy,

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well, relatively easy on the Mac because it's already

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kind of meant to work together.

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So I'm going to continue working on that and release the script

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or code or whatever you want to call it and who knows,

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maybe folks will make it work for Windows.

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And then, of course, is the other side to the equation,

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which is how do you make it simple for people to broadcast that?

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Is it as simple as maybe creating an on the go playlist

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on your iPod?

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And when you put it back into its charging stand,

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it looks at that playlist and turns it into an RSS 2.0 feed

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with enclosures.

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And maybe the enclosures are torrent files.

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I don't know.

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Well, I guess I don't have to know because this is source code, right? This is just stuff running through my brain

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I was a little more discombobulated than I wanted.

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Ahh...

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No, that's about it.

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I'm gonna walk out one more time.

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It's weird.

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Can't sit in the in the bar with Christina my daughter and talk to you like this cuz she'd probably burst out laughing

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If you heard me talking to myself, so that's it

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For today's edition

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If you do have any ideas about the software

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That that I need you know that has a mic channel

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Please drop me line Adam at curry calm

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Or you know leave a comment anywhere on my web log live

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Curie calm l i v e dot curry calm

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Well, I guess it should have said the beginning. This was source code for Saturday August 14th 2004 and

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We'll talk to you again tomorrow

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Bye