Another Opinion Among Many

Episode 2 of RCAF (Robot Cousin’s Audio Feed) is out.  Its been out for a few days, but I forgot to mention it.  Jordan is already polishing his presentation.  head on over and listen.  Check for updates in my sidebar.  I’ve added his RSS feed as a widget.

I can’t believe that I haven’t found this site earlier!

Have you ever wanted to learn how to use that new snazzy open source or free software but couldn’t get through the manual (or the manual wasn’t very helpful)?

Perhaps seeing what can be done is a better way for you to learn.  You can do just that at a site that I’ve just discovered but has been around for a long time.  Check it out! There are over 400 video tutorials there already.

The site? http://showmedo.com/ Sweet!

A few days ago, Lorelle Van Fossen wrote an article for the Blog Herald, entitled Blogging Jobs: How Much Are Bloggers Paid to Blog? Lorelle, in her tireless and complete style, has tabluated and shown how much a blogger has to work to make a decent living at blogging.  Its eye opening when you see how many $5 posts you’d have to do to earn a decent annual income.  I could see early on that this was not going to be a serious money maker for me, so that is why I didn’t get started in the whole mess with paid posting.  Too much work for too little return.  I have gotten much more value out of the time I have spent with my family instead of in front of a screen churning out crap that I didn’t mean about a product that I’ve never used.

Read Lorelle’s article.  If you take it to heart and choose to be paid to write - what you’re worth - then you can help improve the situation for everyone.  176 words.  Hmmm.

In tribute to Ray’s post, I present to you another Cat in a Box.

What is it that makes cats jump in tiny little boxes? Cinnamon jumped into this show box and presently made herself at home there.  Shhe even snoozed in it for a while.  Wierd.

I’ve upgraded my CMS/Blogging software to the latest stable version, 2.6, which was released last night, a month ahead of schedule.  It seems that most everything that I’ve done to upgrade hasn’t broken anything much, so we’ll see how it goes.  The Digital Fingerprint plugin just wouldn’t activate, so I guess that’s the end of the old code for me.  I’ll have to find a replacement. I’m going to try the ©copy plugin. We’ll see if I like it. I think that its the one most people who’s content comes to my feed reader use.

comments closed on this post due to it being time-based and topical. no comments more than a month later are of relevence. too bad for you manual comment spammers who thought that you’d get a link to your porn site.

Okay, if you’re not a sound engineer, you’ll still like this podcast.  My friend, Jordan, has decided that he had to fill up what little free time he had with a new podcast.  He’s still sorting things out, but his first effort has been posted.  Its about sound.  I found it interesting and I think that you will as well.  I am sure that he’ll shake it up as he gets into a style, but for now, he’s set up with a few “bullet points” followed by a main discussion.  In this first podcast, he discussed current state of the industry’s stance on dynamic range (or the lack thereof) and put forth a few opinions about where it should be.  Go on over and check it out.  Beware, the site’s still under heavy construction, so there’s not a lot of navigation in place yet, but you can get the podcast quite easily.

Head on over to http://www.podcast.robotcousin.com, and check out Robot Cousin’s Audio Feeds.

Wow, its climbing up there in temperature.  Yesterday was so muggy and warm that I didn’t think that I was going to see it cool down in oru apartment.  Today’s forecast is a humid 30°C and it seems that it might be there.

Unfortunately, the air conditioning in our building here at work seems to have an inverse relationship with the outside temperature.  The hotter it gets outside, the colder it gets in here.  I’ve just put on my sweater to stave off the shivers for the rest of the day.  Anybody else in this situation where they have to take their jacket or sweater to work when it blazing hot outside?