1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,500 Hi everybody, welcome to the Daily Source Code. 2 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:15,800 This is for April 19th, 2005, coming to you from Utrecht in the Netherlands, the hotel 3 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,560 that I've been to several times since I've had to stay in this part of the country. 4 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:31,560 I actually just crossed over to the 20th and I wanted to do a podcast but I definitely didn't 5 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:37,560 feel physically up to the task of assembling a complete rundown home. 6 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:38,560 So let me turn down the TV. 7 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:43,560 I was just watching the newsreels of the new Pope. 8 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,560 Is it Benedictus? 9 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,560 Do you have a number? 10 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:49,560 Benedictus II. 11 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,560 So that's big news. 12 00:00:51,560 --> 00:01:00,560 Anyway, so I did bring the I-River and I played a bit of kind of like a test 13 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:05,560 sound scene to where New York on the last podcast that I did. 14 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:06,560 What was that? 15 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,560 Yesterday's Daily Source Code. 16 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,560 And this is with the new Griffin microphone. 17 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,560 Now I don't think it has anywhere near the dynamics of the other mic. 18 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,560 On the other hand, it only costs like 39 bucks. 19 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:23,560 So I figure, you know, let's see if we can get an ultimate setup here. 20 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,560 Now, I think the reason why it sounds so nasal basically is because it's 21 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,560 clipped onto my, there we go. 22 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,560 It's clipped onto my, onto the collar of my sweater. 23 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,560 So now I'm just kind of holding onto it and that still sounds pretty nasal. 24 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,560 Anyway, we'll just have to deal with that. 25 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,560 Please don't email me saying it sounds nasal. 26 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,560 And I'll try to compress it or something before. 27 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,560 Oh dude, I was going to try and compress it, but guess what? 28 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:54,560 For the first time I've actually gone on the road, I didn't bring the Mac. 29 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:59,560 And I feel shitty now because I can't, I don't think I have any compression tools. 30 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,560 I'm certainly not going to go looking for them tonight. 31 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,560 I only brought the tablet. 32 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:09,560 The reason being, so I'm here in Utrecht in the Netherlands for two reasons. 33 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:17,560 One is, I needed to connect with Crystal, Crystal the PA, 34 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,560 who actually has now moved to Geneva herself and she's coming back. 35 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,560 You know, we're tying ends up here and a couple more bills to pay 36 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,560 and she still has her apartment so that's like the makeshift 37 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,560 closed down all operations in the Holland office. 38 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,560 And secondly, because the Wing Commander, Wing Commander William 39 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:40,560 had taken schedule two days for me to do some flight training. 40 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:45,560 And what was cool about this is he came to pick me up this morning. 41 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:51,560 He was at Fair Oaks Airfield at like 8.15. 42 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,560 I was a little bit late, 8.35. 43 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,560 We were supposed to meet at 8.30, but there was some traffic 44 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,560 and none of the cabs, there's a car service that we use. 45 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,560 It's just kind of like, you know, a taxi cab that you call. 46 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,560 So it's not like a limo service. 47 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,560 And they had no drivers who knew where the airport was 48 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:15,560 and I had the address and I had actually put it in the GPS on the Audi 49 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,560 in order to find it again after I needed to go there. 50 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,560 But Patricia needed the car, so... 51 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,560 I finally found the guy who came 10 minutes late. 52 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,560 So anyway, we got there and William and Nick, Nick the stick, 53 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:37,560 I've flown with him, we did a sound-seeing tour once with the Mooney a while back. 54 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,560 He had flown over with William and they were having, you know, their fried eggs 55 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,560 and sausages because of this airfield. 56 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:49,560 Although small, it has a cute little restaurant and that was open. 57 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,560 Actually it's owned by Alamand, that name may ring a bell. 58 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,560 I think Alamand was a Formula One driver 100 million years ago 59 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:00,560 and he got it in helicopters and this is an old airfield. 60 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,560 So you can almost see the guy standing on the roof 61 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:08,560 looking as the planes are coming home from a bombing raid 62 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,560 or fighting off Messerschneitz. 63 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,560 So we took off from there. 64 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,560 I'm sorry, I'm really tired, I'm just a little jet-lagged. 65 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,560 I just wanted to let you know what was going on in case you're interested 66 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:29,560 and still trying to keep the rhythm going and doing a daily show. 67 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,560 So then we took off towards Dover 68 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,560 and going through the Heathrow control zone first. 69 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,560 So we actually were put on, you know, Heathrow was controlling us 70 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,560 just like all the other traffic with, you know, big jets, what have you. 71 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,560 Up to 5,000 feet, flew right past London City, 72 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,560 could see it right there on the left-hand side, 73 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,560 you know, learning a tremendous amount of things while doing this. 74 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,560 Because this is actually a lot of airplane to learn how to fly an airplane 75 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,560 on the Cessna 182RG. 76 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,560 And then we were over the English Channel, 77 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,560 because that was the big crossing to make, 78 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,560 and then all of a sudden William, the wing commander, 79 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,560 sitting in the right-hand seat, you know, unbuckles, gets up, 80 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,560 and sits in the back, and then he and Nick, 81 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,560 Nick was also in the back, they're taking pictures, you know, 82 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,560 so, oh, I'm flying all alone at 5,000 feet, you know. 83 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,560 That was pretty cool. 84 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,560 And we just went from airport to airport doing touch-and-goes 85 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,560 and it was really, once again, quite exhilarating 86 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,560 and I really realized that it's going to take me a good year, 87 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,560 I think, before I'll be able to do anything like that myself. 88 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,560 And it's just so much, so much to think about 89 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,560 and so much to work on. 90 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,560 And he also, he's also not letting me do the, you know, 91 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,560 the digital jockey thing with the GPS, you know, 92 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,560 just flip on the GPS and the autopilot syncs to it 93 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,560 and you just go from reference point to reference point. 94 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,560 Now, he's making me do the VORs, which is, 95 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:56,560 actually that's, you know, there's some World War II technology 96 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,560 and even prior to that, the way the navigation works 97 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,560 and it's done with radio transmitters and, you know, 98 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,560 beacons and your cross-referencing stuff 99 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,560 and you're, you know, you're able to figure out, 100 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,560 it's basically, it's navigation. 101 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:09,560 Shit. 102 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,560 Coming from all that, holding a sexton up to the sun stuff, 103 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:13,560 I think. 104 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,560 So that was a really good day 105 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,560 and then, you know, so we were back at 106 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,560 over some airport around four 107 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,560 after a couple of touch-and-goes there 108 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:24,560 and the weather turned shit. 109 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:25,560 It was raining. 110 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,560 But that's kind of cool because, you know, 111 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:29,560 I've always been an all-weather pilot. 112 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,560 So that was a good experience as well 113 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:32,560 and that's really what it's about 114 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,560 because there's no substitute for that. 115 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,560 So tomorrow, actually, 116 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,560 I want to thank everyone who sent in 117 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,560 suggestions for getting rid of the spam in my Gmail. 118 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,560 Bill Kress actually sent me an email 119 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,560 and he has a whole bunch of, you know, like tests 120 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,560 that I can do to figure out maybe it's my Curry.com address 121 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,560 and, you know, how I can add some filters in there 122 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,560 because I guess most people don't have as much trouble 123 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,560 with spam as I do. 124 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,560 And then he actually put into words 125 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,560 a feature for the iPodders 126 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,560 and something that the developers might want to think about. 127 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:10,560 Oops. 128 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,560 My screen saver. 129 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,560 Is to have like a keep option 130 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,560 so you can say that you want, 131 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,560 you know, you want a podcast to be deleted automatically 132 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,560 but be able to have some kind of metric 133 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:24,560 where it keeps three episodes or three hours 134 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,560 for each podcast because, you know, 135 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,560 sometimes you may not get to a certain show for a while 136 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:32,560 and then you want to catch up 137 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,560 and then we have the catch up feature 138 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,560 which just downloads the latest ones. 139 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,560 This is not so much a download issue 140 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,560 it's just a decision issue 141 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,560 and I think that we can probably come up 142 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,560 with a whole bunch of interesting ways 143 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,560 to make that experience even better. 144 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,560 I guess these are a lot of the TiVo-like features 145 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,560 you can learn a lot from what they're doing, I think. 146 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,560 Not the content, obviously, but some of the organization. 147 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,560 I've never actually tried the TiVo. 148 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,560 I have Sky Digital which is what's used over here. 149 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,560 Now, tomorrow, and I'm already hating the fact 150 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,560 that I didn't bring the other microphone 151 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,560 just going to have to be this one, 152 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,560 it's definitely going to be a sound scene tour 153 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,560 at 11 o'clock and I think I went through 154 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,560 some of this on yesterday's show. 155 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,560 At 11 o'clock in the morning 156 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,560 the Ministry of Defense 157 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,560 wanted to give that transmitter back 158 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,560 that I had left with the Dutch Marines in Iraq. 159 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,560 And so I've now, actually, 160 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,560 of course the Ministry of Defense 161 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:31,560 they sent out the press release 162 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,560 and so we're meeting in this field 163 00:08:33,560 --> 00:08:36,560 near Hill where a cougar is going to appear 164 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:38,560 in the sky and apparently 165 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:40,560 four Marines are going to be repelling down 166 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:43,560 with this transmitter 167 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:45,560 and they're going to give that back to me 168 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:47,560 and that's like some kind of ceremony 169 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:49,560 and it's going to be fun because, you know, 170 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:52,560 it's good to see the guys again. 171 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:57,560 So I'll have the recording running the entire time 172 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:01,560 and we'll see if we can make anything out of it 173 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:03,560 and get anything good. 174 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:06,560 It surely will be a trial by fire. 175 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:09,560 That's for sure. 176 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:13,560 And if it sucks then we've learned something. 177 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:16,560 I'm just a little sad that I didn't bring the backup system 178 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:19,560 because this will be great material to basically capture. 179 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:21,560 Oh and there's something else I was talking to 180 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:24,560 a friend of mine who said that, you know, 181 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:26,560 there's a, you know, 182 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:29,560 I'm looking at all the different angles of pod safe music 183 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:31,560 and how we can get, 184 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:34,560 how we can build a place 185 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:38,560 where we can really foster this great energy 186 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:41,560 that we've got from all kinds of people 187 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:44,560 who want to play cool, interesting music on their podcast 188 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:46,560 and they were passionate about it 189 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:49,560 and what's my thought now? 190 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:51,560 I totally lost my train of thought. 191 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:54,560 I'm sorry, I'm so completely fried. 192 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:56,560 I don't know what it was. 193 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:59,560 It was something good. 194 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:01,560 I'm looking through my, do you hear that? 195 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:03,560 That's something, you know, here often, 196 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:05,560 I hear my PC fan kicking. 197 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:08,560 Let me just cut this down on that. 198 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:10,560 Listen to that man. 199 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:14,560 For no reason, just because I'm scrolling up on my browser. 200 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:16,560 I'm using Firefox. 201 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:19,560 Does that take a lot of processing power? 202 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:21,560 That's really strange. 203 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:24,560 Okay, so anyway, so I've totally gone blank 204 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:27,560 on whatever was I was going to say. 205 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:29,560 I should almost rewind this just to go back. 206 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,560 Listen, oh man, I hate it when that happens. 207 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:35,560 Ever since I got back from the easy jet trip, 208 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:38,560 I really got, I don't know, the jet lag has been 209 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:41,560 very interesting this time around. 210 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:44,560 It's definitely kicked my ass a bit. 211 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:47,560 You go through an entire night without sleeping. 212 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:49,560 Usually I get an hour or two, 213 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:52,560 but I don't know what they've done with the seats. 214 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:55,560 Somehow they've made it just exactly the right length 215 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:57,560 of the way they've done the seat in front of me. 216 00:10:57,560 --> 00:10:59,560 It's amazing. 217 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:01,560 Okay, what are we at here? 218 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:03,560 Oh, this is nice and short. 219 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:06,560 So that's basically a quick update. 220 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:09,560 Strategy Cast with Ron coming up. 221 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:11,560 That'll probably be Thursday, 222 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:13,560 and we're just going to, you know, 223 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:16,560 just talk about what's going on. 224 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:19,560 I'll give you some more thoughts. 225 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:22,560 Okay, I got to go to bed. 226 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,560 Because after that, after the whole Marine thing, 227 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:27,560 then it's more flight training, 228 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:30,560 actually coordinating a conference call. 229 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:33,560 So I'm going to land somewhere up in the north of Holland, 230 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:35,560 and then we'll have lunch, 231 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:37,560 and then I'll do my call, 232 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:39,560 and then we'll do some more flying, 233 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:42,560 and then actually come back to either 234 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:44,560 Hilbersome or Amsterdam, 235 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:47,560 then I'll hop on the easy jet and go on home. 236 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:50,560 That's just so the William doesn't have to go flying back and forth. 237 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,560 I'll actually be able to do that myself. 238 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:54,560 So anyway, hope you don't mind 239 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:56,560 the looseness of this particular show. 240 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:58,560 That's why I'm keeping it short. 241 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:00,560 Tomorrow, more with the Dutch Marines 242 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:02,560 on the daily source code. 243 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:04,560 See you then.