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Once again, it's the source code and we're on a Monday 23rd of August 2004.

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Hi everybody, it's Adam Curry coming to you from Curry Castle in Belgium.

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I am exhausted.

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It's been an incredibly long day which of course started with the alarm clock kicking in at 3.30

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to go off to the radio show which went well.

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I had to come home pretty quickly because the people I told you about who come to see the

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house twice already, well they wanted to come today for the third and final time and so

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it looks like they're all just about set to make an offer.

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So hopefully stuff will move along and we can move on with our plans.

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So today is going to be a little bit of a short.

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version of source code because after I got home, remember this is about an hour and a half drive,

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and there was also an accident on the highway, so it took about two hours to get home. Then we had

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to go check out Christina's new school, which is in Antwerp, the international school or the Antwerp

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International School, which will be going to at least for the next couple of months. Excuse me?

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No. Batteries? Van lights? Christina, how are you? It's medium open, how much car? It's real. Okay.

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Okay.

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I'm not going to do it.

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No, I'm not.

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No, I'm not.

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I'm not.

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I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it.

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Sorry.

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This cracks me up. That was my wife Patricia who just walked in. She knows what I'm doing.

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She knows I'm recording and still she'll insist to come in and try and just mess me

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up, which is really part of the theme I wanted to talk about today. I found the interesting

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blog post from Dave Slusher from the Evil Genius Chronicles at evilgeniuscronicles.org.

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And I know that he had tried out my iPod or script and he sent me a note. I think he

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dropped me a comment on my web blog and he said that he had created a Pearl script version

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that does the same thing. Only his was somewhat more complete where you just throw a text

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file in with the URLs to the feeds that you subscribe to you want to subscribe to and

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get the MP3s from. So you can configure that kind of manually. And his already runs automatically

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through a Cron script.

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because he's running it on a Mac.

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So his pro script is called get underscore enclosures.pl.

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And I'm writing up a whole kind of an essay about

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what Steve Gilmore calls the iPod platform.

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And so now that we also have the IPHP,

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IPH Potter, which is built in a PHP.

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So I got to build a little directory to all of that.

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But as I said, it took us a long time

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to get back through traffic from the school,

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from our meeting with the principal

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and some of the staff and faculty there.

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So then I got back and I found that Dave Slosher's script

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was done, I downloaded it, it works,

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it's extremely cool and I will post about that.

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But maybe even more funny is how,

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he's audio blogging his evil genius chronicles.

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And I'm gonna play a little excerpt from that.

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where, well, you listen to it and then you'll see what I mean.

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Hold on.

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Interestingly enough, my wife, who tends to be a skeptic about these kinds of things,

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when I said something about the audio blog, made the statement,

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what are you saying that's so important you need to do this audio blog?

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Which actually, you know, is a reasonable question to ask and a reasonable thing to examine.

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Ultimately, I think the deal is that there's no real need that's an orthogonal access to the real question.

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The question is not what's so important.

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You know, we're not audio blogging because it's so important.

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We're audio blogging because it's another tool in the toolkit.

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It's another different, you know, interesting kind of novel way of interacting with people.

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And one of the things that gets lost in a lot of online communication,

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textual communication is nuance in people's voice.

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and you lose a lot of humor of stuff because you don't hear people laugh and you don't kind of hear the sarcastic tone of voice.

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And so this is just a different interesting way to form connections between people.

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So there's actually a gap in here that's missing where my wife came by and rolled her eyes at me as I'm doing this.

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And so you know she generally tends to think that most of the stuff is kind of dumb.

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And I can't necessarily say that that's wrong.

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It's important to remember that you know for as self-important as bloggers tend to be about the blogosphere,

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99% of anyone you will ever meet think that you're full of shit.

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So that's an important kind of grounding thing that we need to keep that we think we're bringing about the Infatopia

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and everyone else thinks we're a jack-off.

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So, you know, gotta keep the perspective.

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I actually made notes for this one because I wanted to do it.

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Okay, so it was interesting that I actually pulled that excerpt from his blog post from

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yesterday from the 22nd, because he has exactly the same thing at home, whereas wife walks

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in, rolls her eyes, like, you know, you're fucking crazy.

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What are you doing talking to yourself?

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Who are you talking to and how are you going to make money on this?

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Is this what you're going to do with the rest of your life?

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Well, clearly, if we both had the same situation, we found each other so quickly in the game,

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there's gotta be more of us and there's stuff to be done, I presume.

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So right, oh yes, I wanted to give you a song of the day.

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This is from Dutch band, jazz rock, a whole bunch of different things.

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They did play at the Nord Sea Jazz Festival.

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I think it was not this year, not this past show, but the year before that.

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And this is from... I think the only album released.

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And I've linked to it before on my blog.

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This one's called How the Wind Bluffs.

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Check it out.

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And we're coming blue in the house.

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[ Music ]

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mode Jones how the wind blows

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yeah man never bother

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that their entire album by the way was recorded all on a Macintosh using Pro Tools did at

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their house in their attic these guys really are starving musicians had them on the radio

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show a couple times and they're great and power to them I think they make some really

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great tunes oh by the way hope you've noticed that my audio is no longer crackling the quality

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should be a little bit higher I'm using a combination of two programs that basically give me what

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I want one of them is a wiretap which allows me to record the audio from any application

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there are a couple of different programs that do that like audio hijack and there's a program

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that I found. It's not perfect, but it points out to me

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through a comment on my blog post about better software for audio blogs. It's called Live

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L-I-V-E is for the Macintosh and it does give me the ability to input my microphone

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and makes tracks. I can even actually assign keys to different clips to play. Yeah, I

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mean, there's a few, it's definitely an overly complicated interface for someone who's just

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doing simple blogging stuff. But if you could switch between a real simple version of this

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interface with what's running underneath and then this more vast expanded one that would

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be perfect. Now, of course, the drawback to this is it only works with AIFF files and

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not with MP3s. So first you have to convert any MP3s who want to play to AIFF and then

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you have to import them. So it gets to be a little bit of an ordeal, but we're getting

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closer. And with that, I'd say we're going to wrap up this version of the daily source

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code. Again, there's an essay coming about the iPod or

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Or the iPod platform and the different versions of iPod are there now out there and

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You know hopefully how we're getting close to creating something so I will talk to you tomorrow as we

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But what is tomorrow is tomorrow be Wednesday hump day? I'll see you then

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The power of the sword is not.

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