Archive for category: Brainwagon Radio

All the episodes of Brainwagon Radio, the podcast of brainwagon.org.

Intellectual Property, Zipf’s Law, and Opera

September 25, 2004 | Audioblogs and Podcasting, Brainwagon Radio, General | By: Mark VandeWettering

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.

Audio regarding Fish, Doom3 and Thunder

September 23, 2004 | Audioblogs and Podcasting, Brainwagon Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

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.

Blogging, baseball and creative writing

September 22, 2004 | Audioblogs and Podcasting, Brainwagon Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

My latest audioblog which consists of musings about the role of weblogs and audioblogs, my best baseball story, my experience with my new creative writing course and a song. Inexplicably, there appear to be a number of short drop outs which have never troubled me before: I’ll try to figure out why they appeared.

Of System Changes and Other Randomness

September 19, 2004 | Audioblogs and Podcasting, Brainwagon Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Hear the dulcet tones of my voice describe my day spent with my wife trying to find the perfect dress for our upcoming Incredibles wrap party, installing mail services and spamassassin on my web server, and my irritation with the carelessness of Slashdot stories.

Die Spammer Die!

September 17, 2004 | Audioblogs and Podcasting, Brainwagon Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Ode to a downright bastard. The mp3 itself doesn’t have the right tags. It’s too late to fix. I apologize.

Another audio blog…

September 15, 2004 | Audioblogs and Podcasting, Brainwagon Radio, General | By: Mark VandeWettering

Well, here’s my latest installment of audioblogging. Hear my praise for the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, some ranting about my new PC, and best wishes for those in the path of Ivan the Terrible.

My Second Audio Blog…

September 12, 2004 | Audioblogs and Podcasting, Brainwagon Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Today’s audio blog recapitulates the days major events, at least as viewed by me. My rememberences of Sept 11, the North Korean “nuclear test”, and my brief review of Resident Evil: Apocalypse. A couple of technical issues: my bumper music is too loud, sorry about that, and if you hear some clicking in the background, […]

First Audio Weblog Post

September 10, 2004 | Audioblogs and Podcasting, Brainwagon Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Well, this is my first attempt to enter the glamorous world of audioblogging. I’ve brutally hacked the wp-rss2.php script to output enclosures whenever you add the appropriate custom fields, and we shall see how this works. The audio was recorded on my cheapy HP laptop at 64kbps, so no promises on the quality.