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I'm a Korean, it's Wednesday September 15th 2004.

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even be tomorrow.

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So this is the place where users and developers party

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together.

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It's the daily source code.

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And I discovered something horrible today.

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I was I registered for some, I was looking at different

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services, that's what it was, for voiceover IP, still in my

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ultimate quest to find a voiceover IP provider that

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actually gives me dial-up numbers in multiple countries.

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And excuse me, that's a cup of tea there.

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And I've learned that when you register for something online,

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when they say we'll send you an email, usually the first

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place you need to look is your junk mail folder, because

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that's probably where that type of email is going to show up,

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something in the algorithm that always sends it there.

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And so I was looking, I just kind of on a fluke.

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Now I'm using Apple's mail program, and I actually have

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it running through mac.com.

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So if you send an email to curry.com, it's routed

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through mac.com.

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The reason why is because they have built-in spam filters.

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There's still a lot of stuff that

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I've just manually wanted to filter out.

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And boy, was I surprised when I just did a little quick search

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for iPodder and for source code.

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I have missed a lot of email, and I apologize

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that I haven't checked earlier.

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There were some messages that date back to August.

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Like, whoops.

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So I just wanted to run through a couple of pieces of mail

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that I found in my junk mail box, because a lot of them

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were responses to the show.

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Here's one from Danny.

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You see, he said, you asked for a reason as to why Skype

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is better than standard SIP protocols.

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Now, we talked about that.

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So what's the big difference with my question between a lot

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of these voice over IP service that you see and Skype?

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So Danny says, very roughly, the primary difference

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is that SIP, let's just call it SIP,

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depends upon a central server to act as the switch

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for the voice calls.

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Skype has distributed this functionality

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across all of its users, decentralizing the switch.

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This only provides greater reliability,

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not having central choke points.

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It also allows Skype folks to operate a huge voice network

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with a lot of different features.

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having to buy racks and racks of servers to run SIP on. Makes sense. And now I understand,

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now that I indeed have been looking at how these providers are put together, indeed they're

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all using Cisco boxes or what's the other one, other dialog box, I can't remember

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all the names. And they are basically providing that bridge or they're buying that capability.

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And the connect point is indeed apparently a centralized service from what I can see.

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And maybe there are some decentralized ones, but I'm having good success with Skype.

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It really pisses me off that I can't receive phone.

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I had a phone call with my secretary today.

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She's in Amsterdam.

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I'm in Belgium.

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I Skyped her.

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Notice how that's becoming synonymous to an internet phone

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call.

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I Skyped her.

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And we went through at least about, was it actually?

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Look at it here.

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19 minutes on the phone.

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It was a long distance country to country call.

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Normally I'm probably paying because we're calling between

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cell phones just out of, just because we're lazy.

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I'm probably paying at least a dollar.

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And now I think I paid 30 cents for the entire conversation.

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And you know what?

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There's always room for more money.

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So spending less equals the same thing in my book.

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Another email from Michael.

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Let's see what Michael had to say here.

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He says that he discovered daily source code just

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yesterday.

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Now this was sent almost two weeks ago.

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He's become absolutely addicted to audio blogs.

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He spent the entire day learning about RSS feeds

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and enclosures.

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And he says that he'd only seen these terms in passing

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when reading about the upcoming Safari RSS iteration.

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So he's clearly enjoying it.

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And let me see, why did I want to talk about this email?

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Oh, he's talking about an audio setup.

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Okay, when listening to your recordings, I was struck by the fidelity.

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My ask what mic software encoder setup you are using.

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I'm working on an Apple platform as well,

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but I struggle to determine exactly what mic and software to use to give everybody a good sound.

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Appreciate it, blah, blah, blah.

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Okay, Michael.

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So let me tell you how I'm doing this.

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First of all, the key to doing this type of show

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is to be able to record any sound

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that comes out of your computer speakers.

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In this case, I'm on a Mac,

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and unless you physically plug something into the line out

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and into a recording device,

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it's kind of hard to figure out how to do that.

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There's a little application called WireTap for OS X.

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it will basically record anything

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that is sent through the speakers.

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So anything you can hear on the speakers,

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including when I turn up my volume, listen to this.

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So you heard the little blips there of me turning up the volume.

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All of that is recorded.

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And it's recorded unfortunately to an AIFF file which I then later have to transcode

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The reason I do that is so that I can use QuickTime as my media player.

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So my opening tune is a QuickTime window.

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In fact, I'm going to do that today. I have a couple of those queued up. Now you still

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need to get your mic in. There are different ways to do that. Basically, any program that

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will allow your microphone, your internal mic, or your external one, which I'll talk

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about in a second, to be played through your speakers will be perfect. Now, in this case,

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I'm using GarageBand, since I had the iLife Suite anyway. What's nice about GarageBand

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is you can set up filters and compressors. I just actually changed some of the settings.

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I had a noise gate in there before. The reason why I use a noise gate is so when

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there's a certain level of quiet in the room, then the microphone will just shut

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off, so you don't hear any ancillary noise. It's probably most often used

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for musical recordings of instruments, but we use it in radio studios all the time.

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I'll give you an example of what it sounds like. I've turned the gate on and you

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hear that when I breathe, when I stop breathing, if there's not enough

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ambient noise, then the gate cuts in and it shuts off the recording.

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And so you can set this a little bit looser to the top of it now.

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So you see that's what a gate is.

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Then you have things like a compressor which gives you a little more boost to the sound.

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I'm going to turn my compressor on right now.

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Now if you're listening to me on an iPod or you're listening through some big speakers,

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my voice is probably booming into the room right now.

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And that by the way is, oh, you get that big ass radio voice.

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Okay, so let's turn that off.

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Excuse me.

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And for microphone, I'm using a pretty interesting, I'm using a wireless set that we have left over

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from our reality TV show that we produced ourselves.

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These are, what the hell are these things?

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Electro, L-E-C-T-R-O, UHF wireless microphones.

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These are pretty expensive.

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This set costs me about, I think, 2,000 euros.

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It's about, yeah, about $22 to $2,500.

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But you can use all different types of microphones.

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And I found that if you go to Radio Shack and you buy one of their metal stick microphones,

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which looks very much like a Shure microphone, an old fashioned Shure microphone.

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I should actually, well, I'm sorry for the, for the feedback there, but I had to unplug

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I walk over to my microphone cabinet.

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Pretty sure.

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I probably still have one of those laying here.

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Got all my good mics.

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Can't find the, unfortunately I can't find it, but I'll look that up.

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If you can get that into your Macintosh, then there's all this process in it you can do.

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and play it through so that you can hear it on the speakers.

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going to record it. So one thing you're going to get used to is using the mute button on

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the program using to get your microphone on to the speakers so that I just turn it off

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and turn it back on because when you're playing something you clearly don't want any noise

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that you're making to be recorded as well. So you have to learn to shut your mic off.

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One more email. Oh the email bag is big today. Hi Adam this is from Julio. Oh this

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is cool. Just start listening to the daily source code. Want to tell you it's great.

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Caracas.

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The subway system here in Caracas, Venezuela.

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Hey, we got Caracas on the wireless everybody.

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Um, so, and this is another email that was in the junk mail folder and so Julio says

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I guess someone must have answered your questions from the September...

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and here it goes. This was about the the iPhoto getting in a CD or DVD of iPhoto's

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when you put it back in you know the whole thing that that iPhoto actually

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boots back up and makes it look just like they're sitting on your hard drive.

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So if I'd gotten that earlier then I would have known earlier. Thank you.

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And also apparently in iTunes as I said you can select the iPod references and

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choose manually manage songs and playlists. After that you can erase

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all your files from the computer clearing up space and they will remain on your iPod.

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Interesting. Downside you have to move files in manually. Upside you can connect

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your iPod to other Macs listed in Music Audit just not just your own Mac.

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Okay so that's some iTunes tips from Julio checking us out from Caracas.

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Excellent. And today is a very exciting day here at Curry Castle.

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It's September and that means it is time to harvest.

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Aha! Horticulture on the source code you think. Well indeed.

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A couple months ago, I was given by my friendly coffee shop, Purple Rain in Breda, which is

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about 25 minutes drive north of here in Holland.

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Five wonderful little marijuana plants, of which, well I put them all in our, we have

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a little greenhouse, I started growing them a couple months ago.

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didn't really look into how you're supposed to do it, and then figure out after several

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months and after these plants were just huge, I figured out, you know, you have to

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control their light cycle in order to get them to bloom, because that's the stuff

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make it and they like boom just died overnight which really sucked and I've

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had one left and it's pretty humongous we think we're going to be able to cut

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quite a lot off of it never done the cutting before and of course we have

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to dry everything so that is on this evening schedule we're going to watch

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television and we're going to cut all the little buds off the plant and hang

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up to dry and I will you know what and I think we should do I think that takes

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at least a week maybe even longer to dry him we'll have to celebrate together on

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the source code and I'll spark one up for you and pass a virtual doobie let's see

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just running through the news man Ivan possibly on its way to Louisiana maybe

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by the time you hear this it's already hit that's really intense you know I've

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town and probably probably won't be able to withstand a big storm like that

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very well and also the geographical location. Topographical location isn't very advantageous

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as all the news media is telling us. And I wanted to mention Oprah briefly because her

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big Pontiac giveaway did not go unnoticed here either. So just to let you all know that

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if you think that maybe giving away, was it 260, $28,000 cars, if that was a bad

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idea while I'm telling you, everyone knows about the Pontiac here in Holland and they

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probably never even heard of Pontiacs before. So that really worked. Big and

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excellent, excellent PR move by Oprah and Pontiac. And yesterday I played some bits

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of Fahrenheit 9-11 and got some interesting responses to that. I think most

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people seem to agree with me. You know the message is clear but the way it was

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all cut up was just almost unnecessary to do it that way. I was really

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interested in the historical part of what this documentary is supposed to show.

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which definitely was there, but all the hokey bits just didn't seem necessary.

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So on source code, we do wanna keep to equal air time.

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which is probably just as bad as Fahrenheit 9-11.

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This is called Fahrenheit 9-11.

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Michael Moore's documentary, most notably Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City.

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programming Fahrenheit 9-11.

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I probably should have queued that out. There's a whole bunch of what you're seeing right

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now on the screen is a whole bunch of reviews just like to do in the movies where it says

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Michael Moore best film, most important film ever. So it goes through that and here comes

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Ed Koch.

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man who says that the units have spread misery throughout the world.

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Come on.

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Michael Moore, I'm a safe shallow.

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The terrorist threat is real. It's every day it's real.

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I said 3,000 people were murdered!

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How the f*** do you say this?

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Someone has to explain that nobody took it seriously before George Bush on 9-11.

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Iraq was a war for oil. That's just propaganda, but out of the rocket, felt grenades.

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And 60 million years.

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Somebody's been slipping past the sanctions.

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No, fuck that one. They're all the same.

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Everybody wanted to defend Sadami, saying they don't like him at all.

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That's the first second day of war they wanted to escape.

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The biggest thing on their mind was their families, their lives.

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What's amazing about this war...

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President Bush said, I will do whatever it takes.

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The fear for abusive freedom of speech in society is more freedom of speech than a channel.

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Somebody can sleep last night by a friend.

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Like Ron Reagan and Latchel was good.

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Michael Moore's film, in trying to knock our liberty, and trying to say that we don't have it,

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is the best illustration of how wrong his film is.

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Fahrenheit 9 1 1 savage pictures Fahrenheit Fahrenheit 9 1 1

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Dot com okay, you can go check that out so much for the equal error

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You know what it's only just a matter of time until someone's gonna come up with a perfect final cut pro edit of both the

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Documentaries and put a against be and it's gonna be a even

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Oh, another video blog post that, actually a video blog post that I wanted to let you

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hear because this is Steve Garfield who has a very rye sense of humor.

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In fact, at the rate he's going, he could take those places.

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He went out as what he calls a citizen journalist for election day.

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that are supposed to be written in stone apparently when it comes to polling.

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Well, the post kind of speaks for itself. I'm going to play this as well.

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And just imagine Steve Garfield standing in front of buildings with people with signs behind him

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and you'll get the video part. It's titled, 150 Feet.

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Hi, this is Steve Garfield from SteveGarfield.com.

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It's Election Day in Boston and today's big primary race is the Sheriff's Race.

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Not many people seem to be voting today so the story that we're going to look at is

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if the people who are campaigning for any of the candidates are breaking the Massachusetts law

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which says you must stay within 150 feet of a polling place.

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Here in Jamaica Plain, the law is being abided by and the candidate supporters are staying well away from the polling place.

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that these campaign workers are well within the 150 foot legal limit where they're supposed to be.

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be out in the street and not the front steps. Has anyone from the polling place here told

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you about the law where campaigners need to be 150 feet away from the polling place?

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So were you aware of that?

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So what are we right here? How close are we?

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to where the actual votes are taken, we're outside that 150 feet.

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I notice you're pretty close to the...

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law which is supposed to be like a hundred fifty feet away

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uh... yes we are right now it's very slow there's nothing going on but as

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people start coming in

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so where would the polling place actually be like

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where does it start

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right here at the building?

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yes it does right there and i know that's a hundred fifty feet

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so if they enforce if they actually enforce that law where we would

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Really, that's fire.

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Rocksbury Branch Library and it's our third stop today.

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So I guess we could say we're two out of three because look at these people.

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These campaigners are right in front of the doorstep of the library.

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Steven Murphy, Marion Walsh, everybody signs,

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posted right up to the lamppost of the library. This is ridiculous.

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This law of staying within 150 feet of any polling place is just

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not being enforced two out of three times. I'd say if I went to ten more

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places, I bet you there'd be people all over the front of these polling places.

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So that's something that I think's got to change. I always drive by

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and am so upset when I see people swarming right over the front door. This is not right.

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You know, I just don't like it. This is Steve Garfield reporting for

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SteveGarfield.com. Excellent. Steve Garfield

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protecting democracy on the streets of Boston

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and very proud of him for doing that because it doesn't matter how trivial the law

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is. That's those are the rules. Before you know it, you're debating over

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hanging people.

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chats. Let's talk about enclosures for a second. There's, oh first of all, good new, well let

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me just back up for a second. Enclosures is really part of the technology that we're

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using for iPodder. If you haven't used it yet, check out iPodder.org and download one of

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these programs either for Mac or for Windows or even for Linux. They're all out there

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for iTunes, they're out there for Windows Media Player and if you have an MP3 device

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I want to dry them off.

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then do something about that feedback.

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So how this is done is by creating an RSS 2.0 feed,

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which is basically just a text file which

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so a blog post typically.

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is we attach a URL to an MP3 file.

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has it built into the blogging interface.

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I say, hey, it's daily source code for September 15, 2004.

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MP3, it's going to be a great day.

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be about 35 minutes or 30 minutes.

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It's this big.

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And then I just add the URL to wherever that file is located.

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I add that in a little box that says Enclosure URL.

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And then my RSS feed goes out without enclosure attached to

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Word is that another great weblogs package called Word

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Press, which I'm very impressed with.

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They're now working.

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There are a couple of people working.

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I saw some Dutch guys.

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It's in fact working on adding enclosure support to Word

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Press, which will be great to have.

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And there's lots of people supporting this effort.

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So I'm sure that's going to show up pretty soon.

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Andrew Grumit has also started an audio blog.

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Or he started audio blogging.

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Let's put it that way.

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And I wanted to play an excerpt, which I haven't queued up.

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I just realized of Andrew talking about iPod and iTunes

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and how that really is going to be, how iTunes is going

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to be a killer app.

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Let me just skip through this with you for a second.

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Let's listen to Andrew's post here.

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Good evening.

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Andrew Grumit, it's September 14th, 2004, about 945.

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Hold on, I'm gonna fast forward you Andrew.

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You decide a pub date is for a file that was created.

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Okay, so a whole bunch of techy stuff in there

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about when, you know, what kind of information

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is to be in the RSS 2.0 file.

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Users might wanna listen to it,

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although you might not understand it,

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but this is pretty important stuff,

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so we can get these iPodder programs working properly.

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Let me see.

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So that's probably, I'm gonna probably leave it there

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unless I get strong feedback that it's just unworkable.

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Let's see.

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Adam Curry had some nice ideas,

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one of which was that the, I think he noted that,

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I've putter type scripts on the extraction side, go and use the ID3 tag data to...

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This is about publishing using ID3 tags.

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Set up playlists and so forth.

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That's not the bit I want to...

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So should the publishing scripts go dig into the ID3 tags and...

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I have to talk about it.

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So I went ahead and added some to the script.

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Hold on a second.

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I have the Perl.

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I had to learn a little bit of stuff.

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I sort of generalized...

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I really should have queued this up for you.

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So it's sort of a mini plug-in architecture.

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Okay, now go for it.

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Okay, so, oh, and Adam also had an observation about ease of use.

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And it's definitely true.

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This is kind of a geek script.

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I don't expect everybody to set up cron jobs on their server.

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It happened to be the easiest thing for me.

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And what my idea was to combine it with Radio User Land upstreaming so that what

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I can do is drag my audio file to a folder.

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It gets upstreamed by FTP.

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At some point a cron job...

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comes along and sees the new file and regenerates the RSS feed. So that's how I'm going to do it.

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But anyone is, the audience or the developer group who might be listening is more than invited to

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copy everything I've done and make it work really nicely on the desktop or use the ideas as a basis

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for, you know, steel-free-lead basically. Which is exactly what we want to see on the

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iPod or dev mailing list. So what Andrew was talking about there was about his DIR2 RSS script,

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which creates an RSS 2.0 file. Again, we're getting more and more blog software to support this, so

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that's going to get easier for users in the future. Now I think it's the part where he talks

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about the media players. Oh, last thing. I wanted to talk about a usability strategy, I guess,

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something I did with my iPod that seems kind of useful. I think other people have noted that

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iTunes has this thing called the smart playlist and you can tell the smart

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playlist. You can tell it you want the last 10 items added to your iPod, you

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know, ordered, if I reverse chronological date added, and so that's really a great

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way. That for me is the killer app. You know, I just want to go into the iPod,

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you know, go to my latest playlist and just sort of, you know, hit play at the top

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and have it go down through the last few things added. And one little trick is that

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it seems to, the iPod wants to display the list alphabetically. So it seems like,

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so I went in and I renamed my latest playlist to 00 latest, which bubbles it up to the top,

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so there's even less work. So that seems to be working well and maybe it'll work well for you.

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Okay, that's all I have to say and I'm going to go ahead and try publishing this with the latest version of

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my script and we'll see how it goes.

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Well it worked Andrew.

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Take care everybody.

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Thank you very much.

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So that's interesting there.

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Again we spoke about that yesterday where your media player is starting to look a little bit...

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a playlist but it's the same thing as rules and you can call it a playlist you

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can call it a folder. I mean this nuance is everything in this. And on the list

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further I'm seeing a lot of people now talk about hey you know this is so

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successful we should start setting ourselves up for other types of

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enclosures like video and applications and this is where I want to see like a

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back off the developers a little bit because we're gonna get ahead of

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ourselves. We still need to get the right installers already I posted today

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there's a Windows configuration tool for the Windows iPodder which is great

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but on on install I'll just run you through the steps that typical user will

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need you know and from a Mac OS X OS 10 perspective obviously and we download

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this you know a sit file or whatever it could be a DMG I want it to be a disc

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image at a certain point that opens up it says double click here it's probably an

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Apple script a double click it sets up my cron job and it pops up a dialogue

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and says iPodder will run at these times and make it 3 a.m.

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8am, 11pm, whatever, and you could check off or maybe check a few more hours as options.

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And that's going to be set up in your cron job, it's going to make it run.

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And then it's going to say, you're subscribed to these feeds automatically and you can deselect

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any one of them you want to.

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And it's also going to tell you how you can add another feed to it, which should

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be able to be done after the install.

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And really that's it.

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The only other thing you'd want perhaps is just a hello world thing to make your user

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really happy.

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Where you've installed this thing, it should go out, it should download an mp3 from,

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you know, just a set mp3 that's always there in an rss file that never changes.

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And it'll be, hi, hello world.

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You have successfully installed the iPod.

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And of course that should transfer onto the iPod or whatever device.

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That should be put into a special hello world welcome playlist.

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And I think that once we've got all that set up and users are able to just download

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this.

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thing and their iPod is working then we can move on to other types of enclosures.

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And by the time we've got the installation we'll also have other types of devices to

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talk to.

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Time for the song of the day.

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I was rolling through the iTunes playlist and Patricia and my wife was sitting beside

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me and she said, oh yeah.

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This is, are you searching for a song for the source code?

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I said oh yeah.

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She said, this has got to be the one then.

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She's missing a rock and roll band and the world plays it.

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They may not know all the words but it's a classic.

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It's a little singing with me and the job.

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[ Music ]

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I'm going to wrap it up today with just a brief pointer to the new search engine on the scene.

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I was pointed to it by something Dave wrote about it.

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Apparently, well, that's something for a different discussion.

484
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But anyway, a9.com, which is certainly less typing to get to than google.com.

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Interesting search engine.

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I'm pretty sure they use Google's search engine, but they do have some interesting

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features.

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You know, your history of searches, you can open up multiple frames for different types

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of searches next to each other, such as a search based on web pages, a search based on images.

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So definitely worth taking a look at, and probably worth having a conversation with Dave Weiner

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over.

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Now, that's a plan.

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And that's it for source code for today.

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I'll be back tomorrow with another edition of your daily source code.

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