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The Balcony is Closed. The Siskel and Ebert (and Roeper) program has left the building.

Nice article, including pictures of my partners in GapeRadio regarding our James Beard Award.

Knitting may not be your thing, but the production quality of Let’s Knit2gether is amazing. We just published an audio presentation by the creator’s of the series on Podcast Academy. Want to see pro style video on the web done right? Check out Let’s Knit2gether.

You know podcasting has arrived when The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Bonuan Gueset, the Philippines and Jail Senior Inspector Roque “The Rock” Constantino Sison III launch a podcast. The podcast effort is even being made possible with the assistance of an inmate. (Via ABS-CBN)

A few years back I sold my race car to this guy. Good video of 2 laps at Willow Springs.

Am I the only guy who has a copy of the first Daily Source Code? August 13th 2004. I wonder if my friend Adam Curry is cool with me posting it? Adam?

A few years ago there was a good deal of talk about Britney vs. Christina. While I heard the chatter, I was a bit too old to care and never knew all the details. I can’t believe I am commenting on this, but tonight as I was doing some computer work, Christina Aguilera: Back to Basics Tour started playing in the background. My Eye TV was tuned to VH1. I don’t know much about Christina, but I am willing to name her the victor. Why? She has an amazing voice, is still singing, performing, employing musicians and dancers and generally speaking, is not a total lunatic. Britney? Not so much. Luckily, out of the two, she is the one I interviewed a few times.

While she was in town for NAMM, I had the pleasure of catching up with my friend Elisabeth Lewin from Podcasting News. We were able to meet at Disneyland when she and her husband Jim got a break from their reporting at the NAMM show. I’d never met Jim before and we had a great lunch with lots of “podcasting talk.” It is always fun to catch up with her and just more proof that there are some great people at the core of podcasting.

Awesome slides that will help anyone to be an iPhone expert.

Make sure to read Podango’s information about the final change to take place Friday January 18th for GVAL users.

I upgraded the software for my computer’s TV Tuner to EyeTV 3. I like it.

At first you think it is a spoof… then you realize the guy is for real.

I upgraded to a new Mac Pro last week. One of the “forced” upgrades was on my external RAID 0 array. I had to buy a new, rather expensive PCI-e external SATA card. (The old Dual 2.5Mhz G5 used PCI-x.) I needed 4 ports which seems to come at a premium. $280+. Nice thing is the new card will allow me to run four separate 5 disk enclosures off that one card, though I doubt I’ll take that leap.

Two years ago I experimented with an external RAID 0 array made up of two disks. A few months later I built a second and combined them for an external 1.2 TB RAID 0 array. I built it mainly as a fun project for video editing and as an audio scratch disk, though I now also use it for my EYE TV recording and to store all my miscellaneous media. Of course, I back it all up to a separate 1.0TB external FW800 drive. RAID 0 can be a bit risky… It is kind of like cars, the horsepower and speed are awesome. Once you get one, it is hard to go back.

Anyway, GOLIATH (the name I assigned to the array) is back up and running, faster than ever. I’m liking the new Mac Pro.

I have a friend who put her entire IRA holdings into Apple Stock in 2002 back when I first bought an iPod. She got in at $6 a share. 20/20 hindsight paints her as a genius. Congratulations!