My blog has pretty much faded away in recent months. Is it because I’m too busy with schoolwork? Hell no. We all know I leave that stuff til the last minute anyway. It’s much more that I’ve just stopped caring, and this makes me sad.
In response to my lack of creativity and diligence, I issue myself a challenge hopefully to revive what was becoming somewhat decent writing (nothing fabulous, but decent): I’m going to try to blog every day until Christmas, neglecting perhaps the weekend of Thanksgiving wherein I will be stuck with only dialup internet access. Let’s get started.
First, some decent music available for free: www.steadmanband.com (“freeloads” section). This band has a great sound and is releasing everything they’ve done free (150 or so mp3′s). I recommend you give them a shot and see if they belong in your music collection… unless you’re on dialup, in which case I feel your pain. I was one of your kind for a very long time, I know that pain.
And where did I hear about this music? This Week in Tech, of course. TWiT is certainly one of my favorite podcasts. For those of you visiting my website that may not be in the know, podcasting is one of those new crazes sweeping the the Tech industry. Seems there’s one every year, doesn’t it? This is one specific fad I particularly enjoy though.
Basically, the idea is radio shows on demand. TWiT is a weekly show about the week’s technology news that you can download for free and listen to on any device that happens to play mp3′s (or, I suppose you could burn it to CD). This way you can catch your favorite shows on whatever device you have, whenever you want it.
Now that I’ve plugged TWiT, I think I’ll talk about podcasting more in general. I personally know, when I was a child, I dreamt of how cool it’d be to be a DJ for some radio station. Podcasting puts that ability in the hands of anyone that wants it. (Unfortunately, licensing is still a bit of a troublesome area if you want to be DJ’ing some music.) All you need is a computer and a very small amount of skill. It also helps if you can actually talk about something interesting, but there’s two knitting podcasts for crying out loud.
Well, that’s all I’ve got for today. I’ll start working up the willpower to make a post tomorrow. Go try a podcast or two, if you’re new to it.