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Back in October I posted this photo from Disnik, Croatia in this space. Last night a man named Ivan living in Ecuador happened to be searching Google for "Disnik," came across the photo and left this comment about how we might be related. This morning I emailed Ivan with some information about our family, and an hour later he emailed me back "Yeahhh we are family." It turns out that we share the same great-grandfather, making us second cousins. Ivan's branch of the family moved to Peru after World War II, my branch moved to Canada in the 1920s and, with the exception of a visit to Peru by my grandfather in the 1970s, we'd heard nothing from Peru, and assumed that contact with family there was lost forever. By lunch this afternoon, Ivan and I were having a Skype chat, Charlottetown to Ecuador, filling each other in on the last 75 years of family history. It's a small, small, small world after all. [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina] . .< 11:02:48 PM  >Radio UserLand Tip of the Week: How to replace the xml graphic with an alternative I want to preface this tip by urging you not to implement this tip. I believe the orange XML button that is rendered by default is the best, most consistent way, to represent your RSS feed. Having said that, if you still want to replace yours, here's how. [May 26, 2005] [Via Donovan Watts: Radio: The Missing Manual] My query prompted this tip from Donovan. Thanks!! . .< 11:02:03 PM >How Podcasting Works I've been doing a lot of talking about podcasting recently: explaining to people what it is, and how they can do it, and how they can listen, and how it works. I thought it might be useful to provide a very simple step by step illustration of how to "subscribe to a podcast." [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina] Peter writes well and explains things very well. Read this if you are curious about what Podcasting is and especially if you want to see how easy it is to enjoy Podcasts on the Mac platform. . .< 11:01:56 PM >Freesound From Doug Kaye comes a pointer to Freesound, which: ...aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina] . .< 10:22:57 PM >Apple Production Value of HD Session [Via iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide] . .< 10:18:14 PM >Brothers In Arms 20th Anniversary Edition Released... A Single Inventory Surround Sound SACD of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Brothers In Arms by the Dire Straits was released this past Monday by Vertigo Records and Universal Music International's Mercury Records U.K. division. The much anticipated anniversary edition of this 1980's rock ... [Via DVD-Audio and SACD News] . .< 10:17:12 PM >Next Canadian Podcaster Meetup: TORONTO! I’m pleased to announce the Toronto Podcasters’ Meetup! It will take place this Tuesday, June 7, at the Royal York hotel. Details and RSVP on upcoming.org. We’ll be talking about everything from content to microphones to bit rates to promotion. This is a great opportunity for you to meet other podcasters and share notes. Please RSVP at the link above. [Via I Love Radio .org] . .< 10:16:30 PM >Sonic Studio Licenses Vive From iZotope iZotope, Inc. of Cambridge MA is licensing their Vive restoration suite to Sonic Studio, LLC for integration into Sonic Studio’s new premastering application, soundBlade•CD. ...Read More » [Via Digital Pro Sound News] Where does this leave NoNoise? . .< 6:10:08 PM >Let RSS Go Fetch TIME Magazine: “RSS allows you to play news editor and zero in on the information you really need, even as you expand the number of sites you sample. You can subscribe to just the parts of the Seattle Times, for example, that cover biotech and the Mariners.” [Via Ranchero.com] . .< 5:29:10 PM >Tech will cause a real estate crash CNN: Tech will cause a real estate crash. Given the nature of real estate, he warned that even a drop in demand by 20 percent could cause prices to be cut in half. Nielsen said that technology would make it ever more attractive to live in small towns and rural areas, which would undermine many of the advantages currently held by big cities... [Via Tomalak's Realm]
Hmmm. Well I wouldn't mind seeing prices drop a bit before I get into the market. However, there's a lot more to a city than the data which can be me over broadband. . .< 4:23:27 PM >ID3 tags explained I was just interviewed on the 411 podcast. Robert, the host and producer, has an excellent overview of ID3 tags for podcasters. [Via Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] . .< 4:18:18 PM >One Disc to Rule Them All The DualDisc is a "normal" (but non-conformant) CD on one side and a DVD on the other. Because it's thicker than a standard CD, it doesn't work in some drives, including the slot-loading drives on my PowerBook and ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fishbowled_soul's iBook. [Via Feedster Search: DualDisc surround sound] Oh oh!!!! |
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