Slow day.

Dec 31

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With it being New Year’s Eve, today seems to be a really slow day at work. I had everything for tomorrows Geek News Daily podcast ready to go by shortly after noon. For those curious, I am recording two podcasts tomorrow. I am recording the Geek News Daily podcast as normal as well as I am recording an episode of the Global Geek News podcast. Geek News Daily will be recorded first thing in the morning like usual if not before. I have now found a way to record on my laptop, so I am no longer tethered to my desktop for recording.

Global Geek News will be recorded I hope at some point tomorrow morning. With special guest Justine having gone out to San Francisco, the time difference between me, her and Lindsay is making things difficult as Lindsay has work. I am keeping my fingers crossed a time will come together for recording tomorrow. Unless I change my mind, we are sticking with the same topics for discussion as I am covering most of the other major news in my Geek News Daily podcast.

In other news, I have no special New Year’s Eve plans yet again. Like every year I can remember, I plan on bringing in the new year by playing video games. While some may see it as sad, I see it as a fun start to a new year full of dangers and disappointments. To each his own I suppose.

Happy New Year everybody!

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After a day of problems, a fix has been found.

Dec 29

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With the excitement of doing a podcast this morning, I got virtually no sleep last night. I rolled out of bed at 6:30am to prepare for this mornings podcast. This morning was a case of whatever can go wrong will go wrong.

Things got started about 30 minutes late, only to find that my recording solution wasn’t going to work. Audacity was only recording me and not Justine or Lindsay. After fiddling with that, we decided to try Talkshoe. While that work have worked, the audio quality didn’t want to cooperate so we decided to try again on Tuesday in hopes that I had a better solution by that point.

I ended up spending most of the day trying to get both myself and a skype conversation to record. At one point I had skype recording and not me. Thats where I ended up getting stuck. After some research, I found out there is a mic bug in Vista that is the root of my problems. Thanks Microsoft! Eventually after scratching my head for a few hours, a bit of out of the box thinking saved me.

I thought that since I can at least get the skype conversation to record, I can setup a second skype account on my laptop and invite my desktop into the call and have it do nothing but record the conversation and I will use my laptop to talk on. Luckily after a little bit of time, it worked almost perfectly. I still have some tuning to do on the audio so that it doesn’t peak like it is, but that should be easily fixed by adjusting the skype volume.

So now that everything is working, the recording of the Global Geek News podcast will take place at a yet to be determined time on Tuesday. All the stories will likely stay the same, but the recording will take place either Tuesday morning or afternoon. I would do the evening, but I hope to go see Atonement in Denver Tuesday and thats a 2 hour drive each way.

A big thanks to Justine and Lindsay for their patience and willingness to wake up so early this morning only to have things fall apart. Expect all new Global Geek News and Geek News Daily podcasts next week. So make sure to check them out at www.globalgeeknews.com and www.geeknewsdaily.com

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Here is whats going on

Dec 27

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I know I haven’t blogged in the past week or so, but im still around.  My family life has gone nuts with my parents divorce and Christmas.   Things seem to be improving, although who knows how long that will last.

As far as my podcasts are concerned, I managed to record a new episode of the Global Geek News on Christmas.  It made me feel like I did something productive that day.  Its a little longer than usual, around 38 minutes as I recall, but it was worth going long when I got to say what I wanted to.  The time format is likely to change in the near future as I have found a co-host for the show.  After many months of searching, I have found a co-host by the name of Lindsay.  She should be starting on the next episode which should be put up around the end of next week I would assume.  With the holiday this week, news is very slow so I dont feel I have enough to do a show before then.  As of today I will also start posting to the Global Geek News Blog again.  Expect the same analysis and opinions you are used to with the podcast, but it text form.

Speaking of slow tech news, with the holiday this week, there has been almost no news to report on in the Geek News Daily podcast.  I had barely enough news to do one today, but I woke up late and decided it was better to combine it with tomorrows podcast and call it a week.  The Geek News Daily podcast should resume as normal next week.

I think that is about it for now, soon I will start blogging about more than my podcasts.  Don’t forget to tell everybody you know about my podcasts so that they may join in on the knowledge that you are privileged to have.

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Things are looking productive!

Dec 19

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Well, I just posted up the second episode of the Geek News Daily podcast.  I just woke up when I recorded it, so if I sound a little out of it, thats why.  I really need to try to start recording late at night rather than waking up early to do it.  Im spending much of today working on submitting the site to podcast indexes.  If anybody has any recommendations on a USB headset, please let me know as I am looking for a set for doing my podcasts on my laptop.

Speaking of podcasting, I believe I have found a co-host for my Global Geek News podcast.  I will reveal details about that when I feel confident that everything will work out as I hope.

I am hoping my local newspaper is still interested in doing a story on my and my podcasts that they contacted me about earlier in the year.  It would be great publicity if I can get posted in the only real paper in the area.  If that happens, I will post a link to the article.

Im thinking about making a trip to Denver tonight to see the movie Atonement.  I dont care for the idea of driving 100 miles to see a movie, but unfortunately thats the only place in Colorado that is showing the movie.  I hate it when smaller movies that while heavily advertised in my area, are not shown in my local theater.

Thats it for today.  I shall blog again tomorrow!

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Geek News Daily Launches!

Dec 18

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Hello everybody!  This is the official announcement of the launch of my Geek News Daily podcast.  It is a daily roundup of the top daily tech headlines.  It covers the Monday through Friday news on Tuesday through Saturday.  It gives you your daily tech headlines in 5-7 minutes.  This will allow me to cover more news than I can with a weekly episode of Global Geek News.  Global Geek News is now moving to once a week, on weekends but will stay at the 30 minute format for the time being.  To check out the Geek News Daily podcast, go to http://www.geeknewsdaily.com

P.S.  Im still looking for a co-host for Global Geek News!

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Welcome to my blog!

Dec 17

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Hello everybody!  Welcome to my blog.  I will hopefully be posting on here once a day or at least a few times  a week about anything and everything.  Updates on my websites will be posted here as well as whatever happens to be on my mind.  Stay tuned for updates about Global Geek News, Geek News Daily and more (hint!)  Also feel free to track me on twitter at pcnerd37.

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