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Delta CR at Charlie 218. Good afternoon everybody from Curry Cottage. Today is a Monday,

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no promo, no pod save music, no mashup podcast. Just a quick little update about some stuff

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and some thoughts over the weekend and I just let you know what's going on because it is now

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335 and I have to hurry up because it's 5 o'clock Patricia and I are leaving for London.

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Tonight is by the way it's such a hardship. Tonight is the Playboy UK launch party.

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I believe actually that Playboy UK launched once previously but I think this is a relaunch of

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of the magazine probably on the heels of the success of their television channels. I'm kind of

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doing stuff here at the same time and that will be a sound scene tour which of course I hope to

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deliver to you tomorrow for tomorrow's daily source code. Patricia and I are staying overnight

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in a lovely hotel overlooking the park not far from where the party is which is at a secret

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undisclosed location. So needless to say I don't think there will be a lot of editing going on the

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evening since yay we're alone. And yeah it's just been crazy busy today I just had a visit from

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a producer from BBC Radio 1 hadn't been interviewed by Radio 1 yet so I was keen to do that

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and because Radio 1 is kind of like the top 40 pop station really the popular radio station here

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that the BBC operates and so she came over for a chat we talked for about an hour and a half

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and it was hours love it when you know she's using a mini disc to record and I always love the

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the kit they give these these producers when they go on the road you know the big old fashion

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stick microphone with a big windscreen and the big radio one might cube that looks so professional

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so we had a nice chat about podcast and that's for something in an air pretty soon and I'll be

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sure to you know point you towards that because apparently the BBC really is getting into podcasting

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and it's interesting she said that just last week they finally gave her a computer that actually

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wasn't able to do sound so you know it's not like they've been working on this for a long time

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but they're getting into it and the mission that has come down as I understood from Alice

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this producer is that the BBC really wants to you know bring the interactive departments and the

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the current program creation departments closer together so that's good news and they're also

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supposed to suppose to think out of the box and start thinking about programming that may not

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make it on the air that should only be for podcast and that's beautiful because that is exactly

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what I think the BBC should be doing and they have that's almost in their charter statement that

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they have to use any means of distribution available to them and Lord knows it's enough people who

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work there so I'm sure they can come up with some great podcasts in the near future I'm looking

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forward to it and not just you know re broadcasting radio shows as podcasts you can hear the

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con ver in the background that have it on setting one flaps one on the con ver which reminds me of

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this this past weekend so the wind command was on vacation but one of his his good buddies yapp

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who was a we're flown with before he picked up the 1802 RG and Antwerp and then flew to

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Rotterdam picked up the in-laws who are going to be staying here during our vacation but since

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Patricia and I had this night out when you know we said I want you come over and then you can keep an

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eye on things what we're gone and Christina of course will be here and we still don't really feel

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comfortable leaving a almost 15 year old alone in the house overnight so he brought him over and

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they it was their first flight in a small aircraft and he did him just this you know

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took him up above the clouds no turbulence did a nice little sightseeing tour over London down the

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tabs and then over to to pharaohs which is our airport about 15 minutes from the house from the cottage

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and I met them there and then they went back in a cab and then I basically spent the rest of the day

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flying and it was f***ing fantastic I'm sorry got a lot of email about use of the word f***ing

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I have to say it's a it's a it's a fun word to use you know I don't use it to

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for any other reason it just sounds good and it's a it's a way of expressing myself and it's just a

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word is not going to cut you and make you bleed okay but it was a really good time we did a lot of

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navigation flying which means flying on instruments and not on the GPS and I went to Rochester airport

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which is about I say about 30 miles probably from from pharaohs and just did lots of touching

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goes and and you know had coffee at these different airports and that was really cool and

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at the pilot shop because yeah but come over with only one pair of headsets and I didn't want to

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you know look around to borrow a pair I needed my own pair anyway so I bought a great

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Dave Clark I think it's a David Clark the David Clark headset it's Clark headset you know the

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typical green green earpieces you know robust and I also bought in the pilot shop a Bluetooth

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GPS receiver and I'd been playing around a little bit with some pocket PC applications that you

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can download from around the internet without a GPS receiver connected because this is one thing

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called pocket FMS which stands for flight management system it's an open source project where everything

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is open source the program is open source all the the nav data the maps it's just everyone

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contributes to this huge database and it's amazingly accurate and for GPS certainly and it's it's just

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it's got everything you would really want as a pilot in your flight management system and the way you

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set it up with with your your flight plan your waypoints you know all the frequencies are there

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it has a moving map you can zoom in you can select what you do or don't want to see it shows

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all the symbols that you want as a pilot highly configurable and then I just start hunting around

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for stuff online of course now I hooked it up right and so I was able to kind of see me walking

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down the street is a little plain moving just a couple of centimeters on the moving map but there's

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a huge rush right now with the introduction of the Google Maps API and of course my

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sound seeing tour San Francisco already introduced me to this got lots of feedback and email from

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people talking about this Google Maps API where if you have the the navigational data which comes

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in these formats called M E N M E A or November Mike echo alpha then there's G S X where's the

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or G P X the G P X data exchange format there's all these different formats of course it's a little

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convoluted but once you kind of figure your way through it there are ways to actually take data

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from a GPS and hooked that into a Google Maps so that you can see the entire route that you travel

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and you can do that with the satellite pictures as well if you want and you can even put in way

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points that can include a picture of of something that you took at that particular spot

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and I'm just learning now how to do all this I thought it was going to be really complicated

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and you had to connect your camera to your GPS but it's much simpler than that because the GPS

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basically records the longitude and latitude but also the time of day based on UTC time

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when you were there so if you take a camera and your camera is kind of set to the same time as your

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GPS that data in just about every single digital camera these days of course not in the

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built-in camera on the XDA which was quite a disappointment but I have a different digital

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camera and E X and more whatever it is and it has all that data right there in it it has the time

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of day data stamped into the file so it'll automatically sync up and you can create these automatic

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waypoints and there's a lot of learning to do still and actually I found that Koso he's the

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the guy known as pod bad or blog he of course you know I looked for you know GPS data and google

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maps API is a Google search and he popped up with something called jeepster as in golf echo

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papa siera tango echo romio so GPS based site and he's done exactly this he's got like these

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google maps that he's hacked together with this thing called what is it the GPS tuner which is a

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piece of software and so he's taken the output from that loading it into the google maps API

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you can also load into google earth and you can do flybys of of the routes that you did it's just

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I mean it's it's mind boggling this stuff I showed it to Patricia last night and she kind of went

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oh okay so it may not be for a very big audience I'm not quite sure if it's going to be that

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compelling but it's certainly a major geek thing to do and I'm really loving it so I'm just

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going to look out for all kinds of programs that that can tile this stuff together and I'll be

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uploading some experiments very soon there's also a site called magna log dot com or magna locks I

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think magna log or magna locks dot com and they have it that's a pretty cool project you can upload

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your NMEA data and your picture is although you know it's very limited it's to kind of like an

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attest and you can't upload high resolution pictures and you only can upload up to 200k worth

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of data so I mean I gladly pay the guides to use as tools because the tools are great they're really

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rock so I spent a lot of time geeking out hooking up this this Bluetooth and man Bluetooth has come

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a long way it's really working I have Route 66 on my Mac and I connected the Bluetooth receiver to

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that and so when you know I've gotten the car drove around and you could actually see myself moving

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on the map and it's kind of exciting you know there's something about these especially the Google

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Maps API that's really what's going to blow this wide open I think and there's a lot of hacking

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going on I'm just trying to jump into this community now and I can really see that once again I'm

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very happy I have the MDA3 because it it allows me to to do all this cool stuff in a very compact

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format and just take it with me so look for me to be data logging all kinds of stuff in fact

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what I'll do is I'll log the route to London that we take and then I'll also log the route

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from our hotel to the party at its secret location okay so what is the time that's about 10 minutes

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this was just an update I just didn't have time to do all the normal preparation so I figured I just

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give you a load on what's going on so it's going to be a fun night tonight again sound

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seeing tour will be recorded and we'll be editing that sometime tomorrow and uploading that

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the new pod finder just want to let you know we're skipping one week because we want to

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go on a different production schedule which means we'll we'll basically close production by Friday

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Saturday morning at the latest and then Tuesday is when the new shows come out so we're not going

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to have one tomorrow but there will be a new one in a week from tomorrow and we also have a new

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spike lead podcast coming out that will come out tomorrow so that's episode number three in the

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shadow cast of the indie man movie podcast that we've been doing with Spike Lee so look out for that

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and I will be back tomorrow with your daddy source code thank you very much for subscribing sorry

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this was so short I'm sorry I had to ruin your commute maybe should go find another great podcast

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to listen to I'm sure you've got something on your iPod or your MP3 player don't you

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talk to you tomorrow