Today has been a VERY slow day at work.  To an extent it is nice because I got to record today’s Geek News Daily podcast early and without having to worry much about customers or other workers.  Other than that, it has been a total snooze.

Speaking of podcasts, now that Geek News Daily is back up and running, I have Global Geek News scheduled to come back starting tonight.  I should probably clarify that, it is not going up tonight but I will be recording it live on Talkshoe for anybody who wants to call in and listen or talk on the show.  I will also be giving away some free iTunes music!  If you have a chance, drop by tonight at 10pm EST and join in!  If my bandwidth is ok, I will also be streaming video of the show at Global Geek News Live.

That is what is going on with me.  What is going on with you?  Leave me a comment!

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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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