brainwagon

A direct question from Ruth Meers at Bloggercon served to percolate a question that has been kicking around subliminally for quite some time. What is your podcast (or more generally) your weblog about? Brainwagon isn’t really a personal diary weblog. I do occasionally mention stuff about my personal life, but that isn’t the focus. I […]

Wow, Metafilter kindly pointed me to another Pixarian who blogs: Ronnie del Carmen, and damn. Lots of really nice artwork. Sometimes working at Pixar can give you a feeling of intense inadequacy.

I’ve been thinking for sometime that I should really try out the new development version of WordPress. I hacked some crude support for enclosures into my version, but I heard that there was some new code that is supposed to deal with it in the current version, so I thought I’d give it a try. […]

Where your host tries to give a meaningful introduction into digital audio by explaining the basics of digital audio. Topics covered include: What is sound? What does your computer do when it records a digital audio file? What does sample rate, sample size and bitrate mean? The sound settings that I use to record these […]

I happened to be seated a couple of rows in front of Russell Beattie during the Mobile Weblogging session at Bloggercon, and he caught me on video. I’m the red blob in the center of the Quicktime movie, and also visible in the larger snapshot. See honey, I wasn’t just going to Fry’s all day.

Where your host, refreshed by two ibuprofen and eight hours of sleep, replays his experience and impressions of Bloggercon. Closing music from garageband.com: Push: Don’t want to say goodbye Errata: I said “Michael Scoble” on the podcast, he is of course Robert Scoble. Why is it that my brain can remember thousands of Simpson’s quotes […]

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 […]

Well, it’s finally arrived: Bloggercon. I’m just arming myself with my digital camera and my tiny voice recorder, I suspect that if I brought a more powerful gadget, I would be more tempted to pay attention to it rather than what’s going on around me. So, blinking the sleep from my eyes and armed only […]

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! […]

For the moment, comments to my weblog are disabled. This is because I have an IP spoofing spammer who has been hammering my website, posting comments on each and every blog entry on my website. Hey, you, moron, if you are reading this: I have comment moderation enabled. I always did. Nobody is going to […]

I have to give credit where credit is due: the name “brainwagon” was first suggested by Tom Lokovic, based upon the theory of jamming two common words together that were easy to spell. Interestingly enough, when I did a web search to find other instances of the words “brain” and “wagon”, I found that a […]

Well, my week long vacation is slowly slipping away, and it appears that I’ll do relatively little programming during the 11 consecutive days that I have off. Still, I’ve worked my way through a couple of niggly tasks that have been nagging me for a long time, so my time isn’t entirely wasted. Today I […]

I’ve begun to wonder who (and how many) read this blog. I’m now averaging 65 megabytes of downloads per day, with 1581 unique hosts served in the last week, and 5,528 unique hosts in August. I ‘m getting roughly 2000 successful requests for pages per day, with about 6.75% of all requests coming from my […]