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It's the source code and it is Tuesday August 24th 2004 coming to you from Curry Castle

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in Belgium which well this may be the last week it's actually called Curry Castle but

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I have more news about that later and then apology right up front yesterday I signed

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off on the show by saying we'll see you tomorrow on Wednesday in the middle of

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the week hump day yeah right I guess I was extremely tired so tomorrow of course

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will be Wednesday today was another well very busy day Patricia and I were

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interviewed by Rina Ulamans who does a show here called Pulse which is I'm

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trying to think when you compare it to well and it's they do a profile of us

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and they do a profile of the guest every single week and so they're starting up

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the first new

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show of the new series September 4th and we're going to be in it. So he was there at the radio

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show in the morning. The camera crew was there at quarter to six as I arrived at the studio.

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And well, I can't wait to see how I actually look at that time in the morning.

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Let's see just a brief rundown of stuff that's been going on. Oh, I see that Joe Ito obviously

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caught the source code maybe a day or a couple days after I published it. I don't know if you

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remember I mentioned that he had a video of the rocket car of death. The death-defying stunt that

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I performed for ABC's Circus of the Stars looks like he doesn't have the video anymore and he's

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actually put the word out to see if anyone still has it. I wish I wish I could find a copy of that.

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It's one of my favorite quick times. I don't really have a theme for today's show other than

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or just a couple of loose thoughts that I put together. One thing that I've that I noticed in the

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I'm gonna open up a soda here.

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Ahh... have a coconut smile.

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Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the next video. Bye!

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One thing I noticed with the development work that I've been doing, and I've had glasses

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since I was 18 or 19.

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I probably should have had them for a couple of years prior to that, but just never really

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knew.

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Currently negative to 7, 2.75, negative 2.0.

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And I did through the radio station.

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There's a big chain store of eyeglassware and contact lenses.

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And they needed someone to do a promo for them that was going to last a week.

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And I said, what the hell?

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Why don't you give me a year's supply of contact lenses?

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Because I've been wearing contact lenses for, oh man, the past 15 years probably.

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And so they said, well, you know what?

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We're so happy that you're going to do that for us.

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We're going to give you the contact lenses.

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We've got these new plasma-ized, whatever, extended wear.

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We're going to give you a new pair of regular glasses and a pair of sunglasses as well, which

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will be sunglasses cut to my street.

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strength. And so, you know, we really went through, I normally have no patience for that.

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I had the ugliest pair of glasses up until now in just a reserve pair, you know, from

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bottom in 1972 that are about to come back into fashion. So it really took our time

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and picked up some nice frames and really looked at the color of the glass for the sunglasses

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and went through all the motions. So I've been wearing my new glasses. I haven't been

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wearing the contact lenses for a couple weeks now. And what I've really noticed, because

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I did put in some lenses the other day, is it makes a difference. Glasses just work better.

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The technology of contact still hasn't made it as far as I'm concerned. Particularly

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driving, I notice a big difference. And really, we've gone through all the motions of getting

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just the right type of lenses for my eye and curvature and whatever. There's just no comparison.

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And particularly when it comes to developing and doing stuff on the computer, the clarity

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on the screen. It's also big big

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different. And I wonder if anyone else had experienced that the difference between looking

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at a screen and working and even driving with contact lenses or glasses. To me, big difference.

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On the development front, you probably seen on my web blog, I've posted a list of the current

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iPod or scripts that are starting to be a part of the iPod platform, which we seem to be somehow

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cobbling together. I've been running David's Get Enclosures Pearl script. I've installed it as a

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Cron script. I had to tweak out some stuff because it was looking for the feeds file and couldn't find

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it the way I'd set up the Cron job. So fix that. And it's happily running twice a day. I set it up

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for 3 a.m. So that's just before I get up. And so, you know, if anything needs to be downloaded,

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be ready for me before I leave it for 30. And then it runs at 6 o'clock because I always, you know,

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check after dinner.

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And it's working great.

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And it's giving me some ideas about how I can continue to update the Apple version of

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the iPod or Apple script.

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And let's see, got a piece of mail that I wanted to share with you.

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Oh yeah, this is from Gordon, from Gordon.

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And Gordon says he's been listening to the source code.

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And he did send me an email earlier about the size of the audio files.

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Of course, now that I've got a new recording system set up,

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which I think the quality is way far superior to the Mac.

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And the mic isn't crapping out.

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And it's really a nice sound to it.

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As he was complaining that he has to download the source code on a regular modem link,

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and it takes an hour and 45 minutes.

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And he says, well, he only finished just before I left my drive to work.

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And he really would like me to down sample to my usual 64 kilobit sample rate instead of 160.

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But I did want to talk about that for a second because I think this is exactly the point.

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If we can set up these scripts like iPod or to run at night.

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and just be reliable about it and just make sure that it happens.

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It shouldn't matter if it takes an hour and 45 minutes

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or five hours and 45 minutes as long as you sleep long enough

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and have it set up to run when you're asleep.

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I think that's the beauty of it.

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And the way it shouldn't work,

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and which is exactly why I like the Get Enclosures Pearl script,

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is that you hit a button and wait for it to come in.

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This has to be running automatically on your machine,

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you have to forget about it.

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That's why I like Pearl script and shell scripts

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and Python scripts is because you don't have to launch

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an application.

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It's not sitting there in your face saying,

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hi, I'm running, I don't want to forget about it.

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I want another application, namely iTunes,

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to pop up and say, hey, I got some new stuff.

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Good morning, I'm ready for your drive.

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So a little bit of pushback on that,

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their dog now on the other hand.

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Doug says that he's written,

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he removed three lines of code

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has rewritten Dave Sloshers getting closure.

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and it works on Linux now.

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So I hope he publishes that, looking forward to it.

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Of course, I'll link to that, so we have yet another platform coming on board.

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And what we need now, of course, is we need Windows.

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And I have no idea how to do it.

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I'm lost.

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And of course, I can operate Windows.

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I have a Windows machine here, but I have no idea if there's an equivalent to Apple script.

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I think there's something called Windows Scripting Host or something like that.

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Maybe we can use that, but then we still have our devices problem.

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Sure, there's lots of iPods out there and lots of iTunes floating around.

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But can we write for all different MP3 playing devices?

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Or maybe we should write for iTunes and have, and hopefully iTunes will start syncing up with all these devices.

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We really need to get to the point where people like Gordon don't have to think about how long it's downloading.

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It takes 10 minutes or it takes several hours.

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We'll get to that point.

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We're going to get to the point where it's going to be video and there's all other kinds

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of issues we have to look at.

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But same thing, it's just going to take time to download.

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And that's this time shifting, this magical bandwidth that we create while we're sleeping.

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We use time that we wouldn't use otherwise than sleeping.

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And so let's put that time to some good use.

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So that's from the old email bag that of what is not span that comes in.

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I told you, I don't know if I mentioned that we went to Christina's school, her new school,

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I think I did about the Antwerp International School.

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And we were looking at the list of stuff she has to have, what pens and pencils and agenda.

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And of course you can buy that in the campus bookstore.

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But they also require that each kid has a 128 megabyte USB plug-in drive.

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And one of those keychain things you put in your pocket.

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and they actually sell them on campus.

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And this is a part of how the schooling system works here now

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with the international school.

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You take your work home on your USB portable drive.

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I just blew me away.

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I thought that was extremely cool.

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So to wind up today, I want to play a song of the day

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and it's an appropriate one,

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because I think that we have sold the house.

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We've gotten down to the final 50,000 on the price.

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So that's just a matter of whose dick is bigger.

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Of course it would be mine.

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And with a little bit of luck, I'll have news

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that we are going to start our move and get everything in motion

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very, very soon.

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And Patricia and I were just talking about it.

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And of course we've walked through.

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We have about 20 acres worth of land here and gardens.

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And we are definitely going to miss this place, that's for sure.

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And we've moved several times before and we like it and we like moving to new challenges and new things.

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but we never quite had a nature resort like house like this one. If I could pick it up

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and move it to the UK, I would in a heartbeat. So this is a song that I think anyone who's

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ever moved and we probably all have it one point or another. You probably feel a bit

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like this song describes.

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the internet grade that you can download those songs and share them with friends and then get sued.

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It's about a quarter to ten here in time for me to hit the hay because I still got to get up

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the rest of the week at 3.30. So that's it. I will be back here tomorrow and let's see,

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I don't have a very busy afternoon so hopefully be able to update a little more stuff on the

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web blog. The writing of course you do have to take a little bit more time for that for a web

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blog post I find and you get to put some emotion in there as well. So thanks for tuning in if you're

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subscribing. Thank you very much for subscribing. You can reach me at adam at purry.com, see you

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r-r-y or live l-i-v-e dot purry dot com and we'll be back tomorrow with another source code. See you then.

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Bye.

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Oh, yes, it's gone.

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