iTunes 4.9 was released yesterday. Go grab it if you haven’t already. It now integrates podcasting support. You can go to the Music Store in iTunes and search for your favorite podcasts and subscribe to them with 1 click or download individual episodes. It was fun to go to the Music Store, type in “Blue Dog Banter” and see our podcast come up. They’re still working out some kinks, so eventually we’ll have album art and correct descriptions (hopefully in the next few days).

This is big news in the podcasting world. The article below explains the impact if you’re so inclined to read on.
Playlist: Podcasting and iTunes: Boon and bane

it is now day 10 of the roof. this will be the last day. i brought in heavy equipment yesterday, something that probably would have saved me 5 days if i would have gotten it at the beginning of the job. that’s another story.

here’s what i’ve learned:
1. the other things i’ve worked on in my house are easy and do not taunt death like the roof does
2. thinking that one misplacement of a foot means catastrophic injury is tiring after several days
3. shingles are evil, a product of a fallen world where toil is king
4. i see why a quote for this kind of job would have easily been 8x what i spent doing it myself
5. there’s a certain appeal to one-story living
6. the next time will be easier (yeah right)
7. i will never get any faster climbing a ladder

Don’t ever roof an 80 year old house yourself. you never know what you’ll find. Pay someone to do it. Better yet, don’t every buy a house.

We took off 4 layers of shingles. The max you’re supposed to have on at one time is 2. When I find the person who put layers 3 and 4 on, I will hurt them.

We’re re-roofing the house. When I say “we” I mean Krista’s stepdad and myself. We picked up the shingles today. 33 packages, each weighs 90 pounds. Somebody has to carry them up to the roof, that somebody is me. I’m popping Advil in anticipation.

This is a test post from a posting Widget.

In other news, I’ve completed my decline into the socially cut-off. I listened to my iPod the entire time while grocery shopping at Walmart. Hey, it’s Walmart; I hate going there anyway.

This concludes the Widget test.

Alert: computer geeky post to follow

Shooting from the hip, I don’t see a lot of potential bad from this. My initial concern when I first heard the escalated rumors was software recompiling. After watching the Keynote Address from Apple’s WWDC, recompiling of apps looks like it’s going to be fairly easy for the majority of software makers. Also, support for older machines and apps looks good. The potential I see in all this is a speed increase in the laptop offerings from Apple. We haven’t seen a G5 powerbook because of heat issues. This could potentially clear that up.

When all is said and done, I like Apple because they make both the hardware and OS. My frustration with Windows when it comes to high end audio (and a lot of other things) has been because of driver conflicts with hardware that has to conform to Windows, not hardware that was designed in synthesis with an OS.

The PowerPC processors were from IBM, the new ones will be from Intel; the Apple hardware/software synthesis is still the same and OS X will still be the same and presumably Logic will still be the same. If it brings faster and cooler mobile computing, I’m for it.

Enough said.