brainwagon

Well, I’m back after my full day at Bloggercon. Apologies for not trying to stick around and catch dinner with some of you folks: I was nursing a sinus headache by the end of the day, and still had an hour and a half drive to get home. I had a great time: expect a […]

Where your host records half of the program with his mike muted, then re-records an apology to his brother, spins two rockin’ blues tunes from garageband.com, and records some impressions of three independent film books he has begun reading. The songs: Company Graveyard by B.B. Chung and the Buddaheads I Won’t Go Back by Joe […]

Russell Holliman’s Treo Podcast is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. Try looking at his mobilepodcast.org: Pre-Election Podcasts NOT About Election episode. Particularly amusing: his proof that John Dvorak doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Breaking with the tradition of geeky news, your host explains why he’s voting for the Kerry/Edwards ticket this year, and encourages everyone to go out and vote, no matter what your political affiliation. After tomorrow, it will be back to geekiness, I promise.

Well, it’s still a couple of days till Halloween, but I thought I would to this special halloween themed podcast so that you could still have time to use some of the ideas and downloads that I present here in whatever spooky proceedings you may have planned. Here are some of the links I mentioned: […]

In some ways, I’m blown away by the popularity of my podcasts, and yet in listening to people like Adam Curry, Dave Slusher, or even Todd Cochrane’s Geek News Central, it seems clear that far fewer people are listening to my little podcasts than others. For instance, I tried looking up my lowly weblog on […]

Where your host plugs the worthy record label Magnatune and their gracious use of Creative Commons licensing, plays a bit of American Baroque’s rendition of Vivaldi’s Concerto No.1 in D Major RV, better known as the Spring Concerto among us people who don’t know much about music, and lauds the 6th Court of appeals decision […]

On the way home I stopped to pick up a few things, and decided to catch up on my Podcasts while pushing the cart around. I was initially not that interested in I.T. Conversations which had the vague title Emerging Worldviews by Thomas Barnett, but wow! It’s an amazing tour-de-force, dynamically presented and covering the […]

Doug Kaye reports that Magnatune proprietor John Buckman considers podcasts to be noncommercial uses under the Creative Commons, and as such you can use their catalog freely within podcasts. I’ll be sending him and his artists some of my money very shortly.

Ten years ago I had a job interview with SGI, and afterwards went on a first date with Carmen. I didn’t get the job, but I did get to meet a marvelous woman, and in 2000 I made her my wife. Her patience, kindness and humor all work to make me a better man, and […]

Where your host introduces you to his brother’s venture Webranger Nostalgia Broadcasting, reviews the Iogear MiniView 2-port KVM switch, gives his brief thoughts on the movie The Grudge starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, and tries installing three different Linux distributions in a weekend, only to end up back where he began. Other cool items mentioned: Roger […]

Where your host apologizes for his haste in deserting the Red Sox and congratulate them on a terrific ALCS victory in game 7 over the hapless New York Yankees. Links: The Baseball Archive — a downloadable database of baseball games from 1871-2003 The MySQL Cookbook has many examples which use the database above. Retrosheet has […]

Wherein your host is once again proven wrong and the Sox go on to fight another day. Other items of interest: Curt Schilling — hero of the game. Ob. trivia: I believe that Schilling is the current major league player with the most at-bats without getting his first career home run. Stellarium — a realistic […]

Where your host rants about the Red Sox’s second come-from-behind win in a row, discusses the nostalgia of the The Old Terminal Room which Rob Pike mentioned in his recent Slashdot interview and talks about the history of photography.

Where your disgruntled host lauds Jon Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire, including a short clip and further rants about the commercialization of the “podcast platform”.