As many people have noticed there has been many changes in both the show and the blog….and I’m still not done. I’m always looking for feedback and constructive criticism as to what YOU think should be the direction of this show. So, tell me what you think…
Also, I’ve (hopefully) tracked this back to an offer by podfly.com to review the show…and I’m open to any other podcast producer or listener to do the same. Just let me know when you do!
Thanks and stay subscribed,
Bob
P.S. New show to come soon!
I’ve added a ‘podroll’ of New Jersey podcasts that I’m aware of. You can find in in the lower right hand corner of most pages here. Yes, it’s not pretty. But I’m really wet behind the ears when it comes to creating web content in general and specificialy OPML in this case. The cool thing is if your aggregator supports Dave Winer’s idea of a “Reading List” you can subscribe to the opml file I use to create this (by clicking on the little opml logo) and automagicaly be subscribed to all these podcasts. What is even cooler is that as I change the list, your subscriptions will also change. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
According to YeastRadio.com Richard Bluestein’s partner Juan passed away this morning. He had been battling Hodgkins Lymphoma for some time now and the last few weeks have been very difficult for both of them. My thoughts and I hope the thoughts of ALL fellow podcasters and listeners go out to Richard in this time of sorrow. We may all come from different backgrounds and have different beliefs, but having a loved one pass away is something that has or will affect all of us at some point in our lives.
Peace,
Bob
February 11th 2006 Babbling
What you find below is show notes from Episode 50 taken straight from the OPML file I used in show preparation. I have to thank Pete from The Pete and Renee Show and Dan MacTough (the creator of the WordPress plugin that makes it all possible) for all their hard work today in making this work. Hopefully from this point on all shows will have show notes like this. In the meantime play with the notes below, see how the branches expand and contract and check out the links. If you have an OPML editor or outliner that accepts OPML imports, just download the file from the OPML logo at the bottom. Let me know how you like it!
!OPMLRender:http://bob.petesblog.com/Show50.opml,1440,page
January 17th 2006 Babbling
Well it sure has been a fun week here. NOT!!
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First off I had troubles ordering the new pc’s for myself and my son due to a misundertanding with my wifes credit union on how timely online transactions are supposed to be. It seems that even though you make a transaction online via their web site, you need to follow up with a phone call to make sure it really worked!?!?! I also found out today that according to the vendor I used for my computer (who will remain nameless unless they really tick me off) “In stock” doesn’t necessarily mean they have one ready to deliver. After waiting for nearly a week since I ordered it and seeing no change in the online status (It’s been ’sent to the warehouse’ for a week?), I contacted them today to find out their “distributor had to delay some orders due to some technical difficulties” and that I should check back in a day or so. Great! |
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Next up, one by one starting with my daughter we all got the flu this past weekend. We are slowly all getting back on our feet and should be ‘normal’ (whatever that is) in a few more days. |
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Saturday night we had about a 30 degree temperature drop along with a horrible wind and ice storm in the area. This has made things nasty outside, not that we were really going anywhere anyway since we were all sick! |
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Today Pete and I (okay mostly Pete) struggled with trying to get an OPML renderer for WordPress working. After a lot of struggle, Pete simply removed the spaces between the arguments of the syntax and voila! The rendering of the OPML worked like a charm. It also however totally FUBAR’ed the layout of my blog. Sigh…back to square one! |
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Anyway….add all these things together and throw in the fact that tomorrow is my wedding anniversary and Thursday is a soccer meeting and it’s likely that I won’t be able to post a podcast for at least another few days. Sorry for the delay, but I promise things will get even better as we work out the bugs (software, hardware and healthwise)! |
January 17th 2006 Babbling
I ordered a new PC today for the OAG Studios. If you’d like to see what it looks like you can click on the Amazon link on the right hand side. I didn’t order it from Amazon since they were out of stock, but you can still see the specifics.
January 11th 2006 Babbling
Welcome to the new home for the Ordinary Average Guy Podcast! Thanks to Pete from "The Pete and Renee Show" for the new diggs! Things may look a little different (and they will continue to change little by little as I get used to the new environment) but it should all be for the better in the long run.
Stay Subscribed!
Bob
January 6th 2006 Babbling
Just a quick note: I’ll be recording and releasing episode 50 of the podcast on my nine month anniversary, this Thursday December 22nd. This will likely be the last regular episode I release before Christmas, so if you are considering sending comments either in print or by voice, please do so soon so I can include them in the episode.
Thanks,
Bob
December 20th 2005 Babbling
…it usually is. So is the case with CNBC coming to film tonight’s podcast. They called about 3:30 this afternoon to ‘postpone’ it till ‘maybe’ sometime in January. To say that I am dissapointed is putting it mildy. Needless to say, I won’t be doing a show tonight. Thank you to everyone who helped me plan for this. The podcast will still go on, but tonight I just don’t have the heart for it.
Bob
December 16th 2005 Babbling
I’ve finally broken down and spent some money so you folks have a way of contacting me via ’snail mail’ now. Use it to send whatever….hate mail, fan mail, gifts…just nothing illegal or immoral please
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December 13th 2005 Babbling
