Quick podcast from Dotcom Garden

It’s quick, but it’s big - 16 MB as a QT file: I see I’m going to have to learn a bunch about audio if I’m going to keep the podcasts up, but that should be fun. I see Adobe has 2 good audio apps, both of which are coming to Mac - and that […]

A clip from the Taizé service

The trip home from France, via Lyon and Frankfort, was uneventful, and I’ve kinda figured out the audio tools I’ve now purchased - flip4Mac and QuickTime Pro. So here’s a clip in QT .mov format (plays back OK in Safari) from Sunday’s Pentecost service (here’s WMV). Again this recording is from the tiny WS 300 […]

Meanwhile, back at the Chateau…

We’re back on our patio after a mile hike around Igé with Linda: I turned back after walking through this pretty expanse of Chardonnay vines, and Linda continued up a hill to get in a distance more appropriate for her. We’re a 2-speed couple this trip (though Linda has been very patient with me and […]

WiFi-blogging at the castle

So I’m sitting on the very pleasant patio at Chateau d’Igé, a 13-century French chateau, blogging on my laptop. Something about WiFi and ancient buildings just seems to work (though I do have to hunt a bit to find a good signal - thick stone walls may not be ideal for the usual WiFi gear).
There’s […]

Paris Eternelle

Ever since I first tread under the pretty arches at Place des Vosges (and we’ve been coming to Paris for more than 30 years now) there has been, on weekends, particularly in tourist season, a swing jazz band playing near where Rue Bearn intersects.
Every year the personnel (and often, the band’s name) are different: […]

A podcast classic?

So here’s yesterday’s podcast, where I start out talking about watering the garden, before considering outdoor fill flash photography. Perectly reasonable concatenation of themes, no? Heh, this may be a web classic in the making…

Gibson’s ‘Health Club’

So here’s my personal health club meeting last night at Gibson’s Steakhouse, the better to pursue our healthy lifestyles. We did jog 3 miles along Lake Michigan this afternoon, in an amazing wind. Podcast of jog forthcoming if I can find the right USB cable…

A walk in the Arastradero Preserve

We’ve been walking here for the 17 years we’ve lived in Northern California. Palo Alto’s Enid W. Pearson Arastradero Preserve has 10.25 miles of trails tucked into its 609 acres of savannah and broadleaf evergreen forest. I took my Leica, set for black & white and the new RCA digital voice recorder. As we […]

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