Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 31, 2014 – “Intro to Dog Days 2014”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast on July 31, 2014

In this episode, I talk a little about the Dog Days of Podcasting, why I am doing the challenge and what I hope to get out of it.

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Test From MacJournal

A while back, I bought a MacHeist bundle. As is common with those things, I was after a few specific programs but ended up getting a lot with them that I was ambivalent about. One of those was MacJournal, a journalling and blogging program I wasn’t previously familiar with. Years ago I used Ecto as my blogging tool and was quite happy with it until it succumbed to bit rot. I haven’t had an OS X based tool since then, and I have blogged ever less in the last few years. Most of my blog posts now originate somewhere else and get pushed here, either Auphonic or Google Plus.

Just as a test, I hooked up MacJournal to this blog. It did pull down my entire blog and seems to be working just fine. Having a nice offline editor for the blog might be a bit of a boost to do it more often.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 24, 2014 – “Broken Windows”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 24, 2014

In this episode, I talk about the upcoming Dog Days of Podcasting; about my manic-depressive cycles of organizing and disorganizing; about tool chains and processing audio and other fun stuff.

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New Swimming Routine

New Swimming Routine

I started swimming on July 1st. In those 21 days, I've swam 12 days with 2 of those getting shortened by thunderstorms. That gives me 10 full sessions and 2 shortened against my will.

Across all that, I've swam just over 9.5 kilometers. Today, I did the fastest time yet, swimming 21 laps (1.05 Km) in 37 minutes. I knew it felt pretty good when I was doing it, but it was a full 2 minutes shorter than what I did on Friday.

So far so good with all this. Now my main goal is to just keep pace with the 70 year olds in the next lane.

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New New Hosting

I switched hosting back over the Xmas holidays in an unplanned, haphazard fashion that involved doing it twice to two different hosts and burning up a lot of holiday time. I wasn’t dying to do it again, but I just did. If you see this post, you are looking at the new host. There might be slight wonkiness for a day or two, and please feel free to report via comment on this post if you do.

At the recommendation of Ken Kennedy I have switched to Linode. The upside is that for really cheap, I have full control of my own VM. It’s not shared hosting, I have a “box” that is entirely my own on which I have root. The downside of that is that exactly the same. This is not a good solution if “sudo apt-get install apache2” means nothing to you. It’s kind of a drag compared to the shared hosting Cpanel solutions that do everything for you, but is good for me and my Rube Goldbergian podcast publishing system.

I finally got tired of the poor response and throttling of the other system so now I’m in the long slow process of pulling every domain I have into Linode. At this point, I have some on Bluehost, some on Hostgator and this one here. After I solidify the process to set up the domains and get everything working (forwarding email is the sticky bit right now), then I will move them all one by one. I’ll also make the hard decision to shutter some domains that I created on a whim and then do little or nothing with. I’m trying to fight my hoarding tendencies in the physical world, I should do it in the digital world too.

For now, please comment if anything doesn’t work right. I predict death of a thousand paper cuts trying to get this all straightened out. I’d appreciate help in identifying those paper cuts.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 11, 2014 – “The Quiet Moments”

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 11 2014.

In this episode, I talk about a grab bag of topics. I discuss the article types I will never read again; my reaction to Colleen Doran doing copious research; I talk about why I don’t like the “follow your passion” career advice.

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