WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.500 Hi everybody, welcome to the Daily Source Code. 00:05.500 --> 00:15.800 This is for April 19th, 2005, coming to you from Utrecht in the Netherlands, the hotel 00:15.800 --> 00:20.560 that I've been to several times since I've had to stay in this part of the country. 00:20.560 --> 00:31.560 I actually just crossed over to the 20th and I wanted to do a podcast but I definitely didn't 00:31.560 --> 00:37.560 feel physically up to the task of assembling a complete rundown home. 00:37.560 --> 00:38.560 So let me turn down the TV. 00:38.560 --> 00:43.560 I was just watching the newsreels of the new Pope. 00:43.560 --> 00:45.560 Is it Benedictus? 00:45.560 --> 00:47.560 Do you have a number? 00:47.560 --> 00:49.560 Benedictus II. 00:49.560 --> 00:51.560 So that's big news. 00:51.560 --> 01:00.560 Anyway, so I did bring the I-River and I played a bit of kind of like a test 01:00.560 --> 01:05.560 sound scene to where New York on the last podcast that I did. 01:05.560 --> 01:06.560 What was that? 01:06.560 --> 01:08.560 Yesterday's Daily Source Code. 01:08.560 --> 01:11.560 And this is with the new Griffin microphone. 01:11.560 --> 01:15.560 Now I don't think it has anywhere near the dynamics of the other mic. 01:15.560 --> 01:18.560 On the other hand, it only costs like 39 bucks. 01:18.560 --> 01:23.560 So I figure, you know, let's see if we can get an ultimate setup here. 01:23.560 --> 01:27.560 Now, I think the reason why it sounds so nasal basically is because it's 01:27.560 --> 01:30.560 clipped onto my, there we go. 01:30.560 --> 01:34.560 It's clipped onto my, onto the collar of my sweater. 01:34.560 --> 01:38.560 So now I'm just kind of holding onto it and that still sounds pretty nasal. 01:38.560 --> 01:40.560 Anyway, we'll just have to deal with that. 01:40.560 --> 01:43.560 Please don't email me saying it sounds nasal. 01:43.560 --> 01:45.560 And I'll try to compress it or something before. 01:45.560 --> 01:49.560 Oh dude, I was going to try and compress it, but guess what? 01:49.560 --> 01:54.560 For the first time I've actually gone on the road, I didn't bring the Mac. 01:54.560 --> 01:59.560 And I feel shitty now because I can't, I don't think I have any compression tools. 01:59.560 --> 02:02.560 I'm certainly not going to go looking for them tonight. 02:02.560 --> 02:04.560 I only brought the tablet. 02:04.560 --> 02:09.560 The reason being, so I'm here in Utrecht in the Netherlands for two reasons. 02:10.560 --> 02:17.560 One is, I needed to connect with Crystal, Crystal the PA, 02:17.560 --> 02:21.560 who actually has now moved to Geneva herself and she's coming back. 02:21.560 --> 02:25.560 You know, we're tying ends up here and a couple more bills to pay 02:25.560 --> 02:28.560 and she still has her apartment so that's like the makeshift 02:28.560 --> 02:32.560 closed down all operations in the Holland office. 02:32.560 --> 02:36.560 And secondly, because the Wing Commander, Wing Commander William 02:36.560 --> 02:40.560 had taken schedule two days for me to do some flight training. 02:40.560 --> 02:45.560 And what was cool about this is he came to pick me up this morning. 02:45.560 --> 02:51.560 He was at Fair Oaks Airfield at like 8.15. 02:51.560 --> 02:54.560 I was a little bit late, 8.35. 02:54.560 --> 02:57.560 We were supposed to meet at 8.30, but there was some traffic 02:57.560 --> 03:00.560 and none of the cabs, there's a car service that we use. 03:00.560 --> 03:03.560 It's just kind of like, you know, a taxi cab that you call. 03:03.560 --> 03:07.560 So it's not like a limo service. 03:07.560 --> 03:10.560 And they had no drivers who knew where the airport was 03:10.560 --> 03:15.560 and I had the address and I had actually put it in the GPS on the Audi 03:15.560 --> 03:20.560 in order to find it again after I needed to go there. 03:20.560 --> 03:24.560 But Patricia needed the car, so... 03:24.560 --> 03:27.560 I finally found the guy who came 10 minutes late. 03:27.560 --> 03:31.560 So anyway, we got there and William and Nick, Nick the stick, 03:31.560 --> 03:37.560 I've flown with him, we did a sound-seeing tour once with the Mooney a while back. 03:37.560 --> 03:42.560 He had flown over with William and they were having, you know, their fried eggs 03:42.560 --> 03:44.560 and sausages because of this airfield. 03:44.560 --> 03:49.560 Although small, it has a cute little restaurant and that was open. 03:49.560 --> 03:52.560 Actually it's owned by Alamand, that name may ring a bell. 03:52.560 --> 03:55.560 I think Alamand was a Formula One driver 100 million years ago 03:55.560 --> 04:00.560 and he got it in helicopters and this is an old airfield. 04:00.560 --> 04:03.560 So you can almost see the guy standing on the roof 04:03.560 --> 04:08.560 looking as the planes are coming home from a bombing raid 04:08.560 --> 04:11.560 or fighting off Messerschneitz. 04:15.560 --> 04:18.560 So we took off from there. 04:18.560 --> 04:20.560 I'm sorry, I'm really tired, I'm just a little jet-lagged. 04:20.560 --> 04:24.560 I just wanted to let you know what was going on in case you're interested 04:24.560 --> 04:29.560 and still trying to keep the rhythm going and doing a daily show. 04:29.560 --> 04:34.560 So then we took off towards Dover 04:34.560 --> 04:37.560 and going through the Heathrow control zone first. 04:37.560 --> 04:39.560 So we actually were put on, you know, Heathrow was controlling us 04:39.560 --> 04:43.560 just like all the other traffic with, you know, big jets, what have you. 04:43.560 --> 04:46.560 Up to 5,000 feet, flew right past London City, 04:46.560 --> 04:48.560 could see it right there on the left-hand side, 04:48.560 --> 04:51.560 you know, learning a tremendous amount of things while doing this. 04:51.560 --> 04:54.560 Because this is actually a lot of airplane to learn how to fly an airplane 04:54.560 --> 04:58.560 on the Cessna 182RG. 04:58.560 --> 05:00.560 And then we were over the English Channel, 05:00.560 --> 05:02.560 because that was the big crossing to make, 05:02.560 --> 05:04.560 and then all of a sudden William, the wing commander, 05:04.560 --> 05:06.560 sitting in the right-hand seat, you know, unbuckles, gets up, 05:06.560 --> 05:08.560 and sits in the back, and then he and Nick, 05:08.560 --> 05:10.560 Nick was also in the back, they're taking pictures, you know, 05:10.560 --> 05:13.560 so, oh, I'm flying all alone at 5,000 feet, you know. 05:13.560 --> 05:15.560 That was pretty cool. 05:15.560 --> 05:19.560 And we just went from airport to airport doing touch-and-goes 05:19.560 --> 05:24.560 and it was really, once again, quite exhilarating 05:24.560 --> 05:28.560 and I really realized that it's going to take me a good year, 05:28.560 --> 05:31.560 I think, before I'll be able to do anything like that myself. 05:31.560 --> 05:34.560 And it's just so much, so much to think about 05:34.560 --> 05:36.560 and so much to work on. 05:36.560 --> 05:38.560 And he also, he's also not letting me do the, you know, 05:38.560 --> 05:41.560 the digital jockey thing with the GPS, you know, 05:41.560 --> 05:45.560 just flip on the GPS and the autopilot syncs to it 05:45.560 --> 05:48.560 and you just go from reference point to reference point. 05:48.560 --> 05:51.560 Now, he's making me do the VORs, which is, 05:51.560 --> 05:56.560 actually that's, you know, there's some World War II technology 05:56.560 --> 05:59.560 and even prior to that, the way the navigation works 05:59.560 --> 06:01.560 and it's done with radio transmitters and, you know, 06:01.560 --> 06:03.560 beacons and your cross-referencing stuff 06:03.560 --> 06:06.560 and you're, you know, you're able to figure out, 06:06.560 --> 06:08.560 it's basically, it's navigation. 06:08.560 --> 06:09.560 Shit. 06:09.560 --> 06:12.560 Coming from all that, holding a sexton up to the sun stuff, 06:12.560 --> 06:13.560 I think. 06:13.560 --> 06:17.560 So that was a really good day 06:17.560 --> 06:19.560 and then, you know, so we were back at 06:19.560 --> 06:21.560 over some airport around four 06:21.560 --> 06:23.560 after a couple of touch-and-goes there 06:23.560 --> 06:24.560 and the weather turned shit. 06:24.560 --> 06:25.560 It was raining. 06:25.560 --> 06:27.560 But that's kind of cool because, you know, 06:27.560 --> 06:29.560 I've always been an all-weather pilot. 06:29.560 --> 06:31.560 So that was a good experience as well 06:31.560 --> 06:32.560 and that's really what it's about 06:32.560 --> 06:35.560 because there's no substitute for that. 06:35.560 --> 06:39.560 So tomorrow, actually, 06:39.560 --> 06:42.560 I want to thank everyone who sent in 06:42.560 --> 06:46.560 suggestions for getting rid of the spam in my Gmail. 06:46.560 --> 06:48.560 Bill Kress actually sent me an email 06:48.560 --> 06:50.560 and he has a whole bunch of, you know, like tests 06:50.560 --> 06:53.560 that I can do to figure out maybe it's my Curry.com address 06:53.560 --> 06:55.560 and, you know, how I can add some filters in there 06:55.560 --> 06:58.560 because I guess most people don't have as much trouble 06:58.560 --> 07:01.560 with spam as I do. 07:01.560 --> 07:03.560 And then he actually put into words 07:03.560 --> 07:05.560 a feature for the iPodders 07:05.560 --> 07:09.560 and something that the developers might want to think about. 07:09.560 --> 07:10.560 Oops. 07:10.560 --> 07:12.560 My screen saver. 07:12.560 --> 07:14.560 Is to have like a keep option 07:14.560 --> 07:16.560 so you can say that you want, 07:16.560 --> 07:20.560 you know, you want a podcast to be deleted automatically 07:20.560 --> 07:22.560 but be able to have some kind of metric 07:22.560 --> 07:24.560 where it keeps three episodes or three hours 07:24.560 --> 07:27.560 for each podcast because, you know, 07:27.560 --> 07:30.560 sometimes you may not get to a certain show for a while 07:30.560 --> 07:32.560 and then you want to catch up 07:32.560 --> 07:34.560 and then we have the catch up feature 07:34.560 --> 07:36.560 which just downloads the latest ones. 07:36.560 --> 07:38.560 This is not so much a download issue 07:38.560 --> 07:40.560 it's just a decision issue 07:40.560 --> 07:42.560 and I think that we can probably come up 07:42.560 --> 07:44.560 with a whole bunch of interesting ways 07:44.560 --> 07:46.560 to make that experience even better. 07:46.560 --> 07:48.560 I guess these are a lot of the TiVo-like features 07:48.560 --> 07:51.560 you can learn a lot from what they're doing, I think. 07:51.560 --> 07:54.560 Not the content, obviously, but some of the organization. 07:54.560 --> 07:56.560 I've never actually tried the TiVo. 07:56.560 --> 07:59.560 I have Sky Digital which is what's used over here. 07:59.560 --> 08:02.560 Now, tomorrow, and I'm already hating the fact 08:02.560 --> 08:05.560 that I didn't bring the other microphone 08:05.560 --> 08:07.560 just going to have to be this one, 08:07.560 --> 08:10.560 it's definitely going to be a sound scene tour 08:10.560 --> 08:12.560 at 11 o'clock and I think I went through 08:12.560 --> 08:14.560 some of this on yesterday's show. 08:14.560 --> 08:16.560 At 11 o'clock in the morning 08:16.560 --> 08:19.560 the Ministry of Defense 08:19.560 --> 08:21.560 wanted to give that transmitter back 08:21.560 --> 08:24.560 that I had left with the Dutch Marines in Iraq. 08:24.560 --> 08:27.560 And so I've now, actually, 08:27.560 --> 08:29.560 of course the Ministry of Defense 08:29.560 --> 08:31.560 they sent out the press release 08:31.560 --> 08:33.560 and so we're meeting in this field 08:33.560 --> 08:36.560 near Hill where a cougar is going to appear 08:36.560 --> 08:38.560 in the sky and apparently 08:38.560 --> 08:40.560 four Marines are going to be repelling down 08:40.560 --> 08:43.560 with this transmitter 08:43.560 --> 08:45.560 and they're going to give that back to me 08:45.560 --> 08:47.560 and that's like some kind of ceremony 08:47.560 --> 08:49.560 and it's going to be fun because, you know, 08:49.560 --> 08:52.560 it's good to see the guys again. 08:52.560 --> 08:57.560 So I'll have the recording running the entire time 08:57.560 --> 09:01.560 and we'll see if we can make anything out of it 09:01.560 --> 09:03.560 and get anything good. 09:03.560 --> 09:06.560 It surely will be a trial by fire. 09:06.560 --> 09:09.560 That's for sure. 09:09.560 --> 09:13.560 And if it sucks then we've learned something. 09:13.560 --> 09:16.560 I'm just a little sad that I didn't bring the backup system 09:16.560 --> 09:19.560 because this will be great material to basically capture. 09:19.560 --> 09:21.560 Oh and there's something else I was talking to 09:21.560 --> 09:24.560 a friend of mine who said that, you know, 09:24.560 --> 09:26.560 there's a, you know, 09:26.560 --> 09:29.560 I'm looking at all the different angles of pod safe music 09:29.560 --> 09:31.560 and how we can get, 09:31.560 --> 09:34.560 how we can build a place 09:34.560 --> 09:38.560 where we can really foster this great energy 09:38.560 --> 09:41.560 that we've got from all kinds of people 09:41.560 --> 09:44.560 who want to play cool, interesting music on their podcast 09:44.560 --> 09:46.560 and they were passionate about it 09:46.560 --> 09:49.560 and what's my thought now? 09:49.560 --> 09:51.560 I totally lost my train of thought. 09:51.560 --> 09:54.560 I'm sorry, I'm so completely fried. 09:54.560 --> 09:56.560 I don't know what it was. 09:56.560 --> 09:59.560 It was something good. 09:59.560 --> 10:01.560 I'm looking through my, do you hear that? 10:01.560 --> 10:03.560 That's something, you know, here often, 10:03.560 --> 10:05.560 I hear my PC fan kicking. 10:05.560 --> 10:08.560 Let me just cut this down on that. 10:08.560 --> 10:10.560 Listen to that man. 10:10.560 --> 10:14.560 For no reason, just because I'm scrolling up on my browser. 10:14.560 --> 10:16.560 I'm using Firefox. 10:16.560 --> 10:19.560 Does that take a lot of processing power? 10:19.560 --> 10:21.560 That's really strange. 10:21.560 --> 10:24.560 Okay, so anyway, so I've totally gone blank 10:24.560 --> 10:27.560 on whatever was I was going to say. 10:27.560 --> 10:29.560 I should almost rewind this just to go back. 10:29.560 --> 10:32.560 Listen, oh man, I hate it when that happens. 10:32.560 --> 10:35.560 Ever since I got back from the easy jet trip, 10:35.560 --> 10:38.560 I really got, I don't know, the jet lag has been 10:38.560 --> 10:41.560 very interesting this time around. 10:41.560 --> 10:44.560 It's definitely kicked my ass a bit. 10:44.560 --> 10:47.560 You go through an entire night without sleeping. 10:47.560 --> 10:49.560 Usually I get an hour or two, 10:49.560 --> 10:52.560 but I don't know what they've done with the seats. 10:52.560 --> 10:55.560 Somehow they've made it just exactly the right length 10:55.560 --> 10:57.560 of the way they've done the seat in front of me. 10:57.560 --> 10:59.560 It's amazing. 10:59.560 --> 11:01.560 Okay, what are we at here? 11:01.560 --> 11:03.560 Oh, this is nice and short. 11:03.560 --> 11:06.560 So that's basically a quick update. 11:06.560 --> 11:09.560 Strategy Cast with Ron coming up. 11:09.560 --> 11:11.560 That'll probably be Thursday, 11:11.560 --> 11:13.560 and we're just going to, you know, 11:13.560 --> 11:16.560 just talk about what's going on. 11:16.560 --> 11:19.560 I'll give you some more thoughts. 11:19.560 --> 11:22.560 Okay, I got to go to bed. 11:22.560 --> 11:25.560 Because after that, after the whole Marine thing, 11:25.560 --> 11:27.560 then it's more flight training, 11:27.560 --> 11:30.560 actually coordinating a conference call. 11:30.560 --> 11:33.560 So I'm going to land somewhere up in the north of Holland, 11:33.560 --> 11:35.560 and then we'll have lunch, 11:35.560 --> 11:37.560 and then I'll do my call, 11:37.560 --> 11:39.560 and then we'll do some more flying, 11:39.560 --> 11:42.560 and then actually come back to either 11:42.560 --> 11:44.560 Hilbersome or Amsterdam, 11:44.560 --> 11:47.560 then I'll hop on the easy jet and go on home. 11:47.560 --> 11:50.560 That's just so the William doesn't have to go flying back and forth. 11:50.560 --> 11:52.560 I'll actually be able to do that myself. 11:52.560 --> 11:54.560 So anyway, hope you don't mind 11:54.560 --> 11:56.560 the looseness of this particular show. 11:56.560 --> 11:58.560 That's why I'm keeping it short. 11:58.560 --> 12:00.560 Tomorrow, more with the Dutch Marines 12:00.560 --> 12:02.560 on the daily source code. 12:02.560 --> 12:04.560 See you then.