brainwagon

Where your ascerbic host tears tears Steve Ballmer a new one over DRM, reports on his attempt to make AB’s Beefy Broth, and also mentions the terrific thttpd, a throttling http server by Jef Poskanzer.

Last night, I did what I consider to have been one of the poorer podcasts. Frankly, I was tired and empty of ideas, and just put something up as a courtesy to the two or three other peoples that might want something fresh on their iPod in the morning. Frankly, I was feeling a little […]

Wherein your host bores potential listeners with late night reviews of Doom3 and Halo, points out the silliness of copyrights on sound effects CDs, and puts his copyright music where his mouth is by playing music from archive.org.

Where IT downsizing claims another victim, the Angels victimize the A’s, and your host anticipates the creation of a new machinima series called The Strangerhood. Oh, and for Dan Lyke here is an ogg encoded version of my program.

Wherein your skeptical Democratic host rambles for 25+ minutes on the outcome of last night’s (for lack of a better word) “debate”. Warning: fans of the President may be offended. Actually, there are better words. Perhaps “farce” or “camera op”.

I was surfing this morning and noticed that Dave Slusher, the Evil Genius, had provided a link to this site in the announcement of his audioblog. So, I synched my iPod and set off for the drive to work, eagerly awaiting the mention of this humble blog. What would he say about me? Did he […]

Wherein your host is stirred (but barely shaken) by an earthquake and then goes on to ponder baseball, copyrights and other miscellaneous topics o’ the day. Addendum: It appears the earthquake did relatively little damage.

Yesterday I reached a minor milestone: the tenth of my audioblog entries, and I have a strong suspicion I may have had more than ten downloads. I also chose to wrote up a brief description about how I make these entries, and I hope that some people found it useful. After another minor glitch in […]

Wherein your host experiments with a remote on-the-street feed, thanks his patient and benevolent listeners for their comments, and reviews the British zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead. Download the MP3 for the complete review, but the summary is: it’s a terrific zombie movie and a terrific comedy welded together to make a really great […]

Andrew Grumet asked in one of my comments what hardware and software I used to produce my audioblogs. Since I thought this might be of general interest and would be the kind of thing that people might like to find via search engines, I thought I’d actually write down the nuts and bolts of how […]

Wow, on the same day I get a mention on the Evil Genius Chronicles, Dan Lyke endorses my little attempt at audio monoblogging. I think two more endorsements, and I’ll be eligible for an appearance on The Surreal Life.

While driving into work this morning and trying to catch up on my audioblogs for the weekend, I noticed that Dave Slusher had mentioned the comment that I left on his weblog regarding the idea of giving fees to the record labels in exchange for making filesharing legal. Woohoo! I feel just like Jonathan Frakes! […]

Wherein your host apologizes for his inept speech habits, reviews the Star Wars trilogy DVD collection, yaps a bit about graphics hardware and Moore’s law, and looks forward to Shaun of the Dead.

Wherein your noble guide to all things brainwagon rants about taxes to support the music industry, on copyrights and patents, elucidates Tom Duff’s musings about Zipf’s Law, and a brief operatic interlude. Some day, um, you know, I’ll, um, stop, um, sounding, um, you know, stupid.

Wherein your noble host explains about ipodder, ponders the demographics of weblogging, gives his brief thumbs up for Doom3, hints about betta fish, and endures a thunderstorm, all for your amusement.