Good times, Noodle salad
Wetwired Radio Presents: Our third podcast. Yay. Ok, after continued stupid technical difficulties, and the fact that we’re slightly perfectionists, we’re glad to have it finnally up.
Topics covered: Austin road trip, new apple macbook, “Yes, I assure you, we’re open”, Clerks Reference, Huts Hamburgers, the Oasis, Apple Store, date, Jenna Jameson, Team Building, the View.
Listen to this via itunes or directly below.
Good Rainy Sunday to you all in Austin. Today starting off good with yet some more great music from Chillville. If you’re not in Austin you can stream 101x by going to 101x.com . Make sure you also help the local Austin Music people by going to The Year of Austin Music.
Expect an updated Podcast from us here at wetwired at some point today or tomorrrow. Sorry for the delay.
Also remember, head out to Cedar Park to the Exxon on Bagdad Road and get some cheap gas!
Just updated to Wordpress 2.5.1 which contains 70 or so fixes and some security bugs etc. Additionally they add a hash to the cookies which is specific to the site that makes it harder to hack. Anyway, you guys won’t notice much, that changes are mostly all back end.
We’ll I’ve received my professional grade amateur microphone today via amazon. Bundled it comes with a pop filter but apparently those are on back order. Reason behind picking this up is that I needed a better quality microphone from what I had, and who knows, I might do some more phone voice over stuff like I have done before for other companies. You know the voice behind the “press one for english” type stuff.
I now understand why there are so many books and gotcha’s out there about podcasting. Sure if you’re just doing a single podcast for yourself its not that hard. But if you want music, jingles, to use skype for a dual podcast - then enter the technical learning curve of quantum physics. Ok maybe not that bad, but yeah, not easy. Actually certain things are easier to do on a PC than a Mac when it comes to the podcasting, but the better software in terms of quality/editing seems to be for Mac. I did come across some stuff made for PC that had additional items - i.e. ability to drop small sound effects and wav files into - I have not found that easy function on a mac yet.
I’m sure after some more time I’ll know everything there is to know about professional pod casting. You see, when we do something, we want to make sure we do it well, not half assed. I’ve listened to a couple other podcasts out there and some are good, but a lot lack that professional radio quality - excluding the ones that actually come from a professional source.
Here is a picture of the setup, microphone hooked up to the macbook.
Things may be up and down as we are updating to the latest version of wordpress. I must say I’m impressed with it and all the new features.
Update: I’ve grabbed a new theme since I have been having so many problems with K2.
I’m now using futurosity which I’ve managed to modify somewhat to suit my needs. I think it will at least do until I am able to do my own custom programing for wordpress and wetwired.
Update #2 I’ve used the hack suggested for the RC4 version of K2 and re-uploaded it and the refresh problem with the site seems to be resolved. This layout is more conducive to what we want wetwired to look like in the long run. 3-31-08
I went looking through my old emails and have references to some posts in 2000 and 2001 that I just can’t find - that’s the problem when you go from “do-it-yourself” to blogger to movable type and now to Wordpress. Who knows, maybe I’ll find something if I keep looking.
There is a great tool out there if you have a mac that is called Wordpress Dash http://www.paniris.com/wordpressdash/index.php?action=download&v=4 that allows you to remote post without logging into your site. Its a widget that runs on the macbook dashboard. I’m fairly certain there is one for windows too as Wordpress has a pretty good api and there are many other remote posting tools out there. I actually forgot about this one, I used it when I went to Rome and could find sketchy internet here and there. Along those lines, todays travel tip: when you travel internationall, bring a very small laptop if you’re bringing one. I brought my macbook and its small, now I wouldn’t mind something even smaller like the macbook air.
Wetwired has yet another upgrade, this time with Mint. I’ve been watching this website for quite some time and have seen the first couple iterations and with the latest version and wetwired’s hosting change, blogging software change, it was time to get some cool stat whoring number program…especially since I’m saving an insane amount of money on hosting now.
Above is a screenshot of what it looks like, it is of course sparse with no real information but give it a couple days and I’ll be collecting all of your browsing data and using it to take over the world. Insert evil laugh here.
“So, yeah, we had a good thing going for a long time there. But Movable Type, baby, we felt that love start to die inside and we couldn’t go on just for the posts.
Oh, don’t cry baby. It’s us, it’s not you. You’re beautiful, yes you are!
So yeah, we’re moving into this cramped little studio apartment until we get our new place. It’s not like it was with you, but it’s okay. We’ll be okay.”
So yeah, you’re looking at our temp placeholding until we get the new site full launched.It’s not as nice as the old site, but it’ll do until we get everything up and running.
Oh, and I may have some news about The Job soon, so stay tuned.
Out.
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