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

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

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I am exhausted.

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

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to go off to the radio show
which went well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Okay.

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I'm not going to do it.

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No, I'm not.

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No, I'm not.

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I'm not.

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I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it.

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Sorry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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through a Cron script.

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because he's running it on a
Mac.

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

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

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what Steve Gilmore calls the
iPod platform.

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And so now that we also have the
IPHP,

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IPH Potter, which is built in a
PHP.

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

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But as I said, it took us a long
time

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to get back through traffic from
the school,

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from our meeting with the
principal

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and some of the staff and
faculty there.

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

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was done, I downloaded it, it
works,

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

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But maybe even more funny is
how,

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he's audio blogging his evil
genius chronicles.

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

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

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Hold on.

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

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

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

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

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

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The question is not what's so
important.

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

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

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

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

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textual communication is nuance
in people's voice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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So, you know, gotta keep the
perspective.

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

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

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

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

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What are you doing talking to
yourself?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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They did play at the Nord Sea
Jazz Festival.

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

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

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

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This one's called How the Wind
Bluffs.

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Check it out.

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And we're coming blue in the
house.

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[ Music ]

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mode Jones how the wind blows

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yeah man never bother

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The power of the sword is not.

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I