Category: General

UPDATE: 19 Oct 2007, I’ve pulled the forum. Maybe it’ll come back later, but right now, it didn’t fit right.

WordPress’ comment threading aren’t the best place for support questions and ongoing discussion (just look at the comment thread for wp-ipodcatter). It’s too hard to see if someone has already asked your question and to see if it was answered.

With that in mind, I’ve installed bbPress, the bulletin board/discussion/forum software from the makers of WordPress. All ongoing discussion about the podcasts and plugin will be located in the Garrick Van Buren .com Forum.

The appropriate links have been added to the pages in question.

Rock on.

Yes, feel free to rant about me Behind my Back.

It’s no secret I consider interruption advertising a waste. Unfortunately, for so long, that’s the only way we’ve received commercial messages. Now, what if I mentioned where evol, peterme and ChrisFromETrade had dinner?

Thankfully, I don’t remember – some fantastic crepe place in the Mission district of SF. 😉

Phew, hopefully that little commercial message (or 4) will keep the socialists away while keeping my uplifter cred.

On a related note, is this an ad for Kinkos?

If you missed it, here’s the KARE 11 – Podcasting, have opinion will share segment.

If you’re wondering about a new First Crack podcast – as you can expect, Cooper threw my recording schedule for a loop. Podcasting to resume after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Until then, peruse the archives and send over your suggestions for interesting conversations.

Sorry for the late notice – if you’re looking for something to do tonight and want to learn about podcasting – specifically with iLife (Garage Band, iTunes, iPhoto) and .Mac – pop up to the Apple Store in Roseville by 6pm tonight (Nov 2nd) and you can get a demo from me.

Thanks go out to Julio Ojeda-Zapata for Podcast People, the most comprehensive article on the Podcast Minnesota community to date.

In celebration of First Crack’s first birthday, I’m putting together a show looking back. Since I’m way too close to it, I’d like you to tell me what you like and dislike about the podcast, what your favorite episode is and which ones were completely un-listenable. Send over all those hurtful and heartfelt statements you feel when you hear my voice. Think of it as a best-of and worst-of the First Crack Podcast as declared by you.

Email text and mp3 audio comments to: firstcrack@gmail.com.

You can also leave a voicemail by dialing 206-20-BEAN-1.

Yes, I’m asking for it. All the ugliness. Send it over.

After the London Bombings, Jen said people were should make an ICE (short for ‘In Case of Emergency’) listing in our respective phones. It took about 10 seconds to update her speed-dial label my Treo.

Thanks to Iconoculture’s ‘Who You Gonna Call’ article for reminding me of it.

So we’re back. My apologies if you stopped by over the last couple days to find us not here. I was working on a new visual presentation for the website and the CMS ended up not cooperating.

Everything is mostly back to normal now. Though for the next few days, if you hit the site, verses reading the RSS feed, you’ll still see the somethings moving around.

Hi all. My apologies for the lack of updates. Some sort of virus put the smack down on me earlier this week (it’s going around). My head feels like a bowling ball and the thought of talking hurts. Worst of all – I haven’t had coffee since Tuesday. Tea. Lots of tea and lots of tasty Green Goodness juices.

Jen just listened to Jon Share His Geo, and she said she liked the format – me being between you and the interviewee. Less eavesdropping and more This American Life-esque. What do you think? 206-20-BEAN-1 or email.

Thanks for sticking around. I hope to bring you another heavily caffeinated episode early next week.

In the mean time, check out something else I’ve been working on: WishRSS – it turns Amazon WishLists into RSS feeds.

Alright. Time for more tea.

I’m moving workingpathways.com to a new host this weekend. So, there maybe some flakey-ness over the next couple days. Apologies for any interruptions in advance.

The move is complete and successful – if the site feels faster now, this is why.

Thanks for your patience.