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Swim at Your Own Risk - a daily dose of all things sharky

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on March 28, 2007
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Trolling the Google for sharky news so you don’t have to:

Swim At Your Own Risk is your daily dose of all things sharky… oh, and we’ll also try to fill you in on any other aquatic antics we stumble upon.

This is a test of MarsEdit

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Jason
on March 13, 2007
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This is a test. This is only a test. This a test of the MarsEdit system. Is it better than Ecto? And is there a way to do hyperlinks and styling with a push of the button instead of having to type out the HTML by hand? If I make a post with MarsEdit, then find a simple typo and go back to fix it, is there a way to make the original post date stamp stick?

UPDATE: Melrin Mann inadvertently suggests TextExpander as a possible solution to the HTML coding.

UPDATE: If I had bothered to click on the button in the User Interface, I would have seen that MarsEdit has HTML tags a click away, or via keyboard shortcuts. Doh! But I am liking TextPander better. And I still don’t see how to keep sticky dates.

Happy Cepha-versary

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Jason
on December 1, 2006
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Well, the Cephalopodcast is one year old today. It was actually back in July/August 2005 that I woke up with the name “cephalopodcast” rolling around in my brain. Fortunately, podcasting was still new enough that no one else had registered the domain yet. I was also thinking of calling it the SquinkLink, but fortunately my wife nixed that idea.

I suppose it’s close enough to the New Year for me to make some predictions too. I am finally starting to read up on how to roll my own Wordpress templates. Expect more customization and design of the Cephalopodcast blog in the coming year. I am also playing around with Drupal and might switch over to that CMS in the future.

I started this blog/podcast mostly as a learning exercise. Now that the curve has leveled off, expect more actual content next year (certainly more than four podcasts, geesh!). There are a number of local and national marine science figures and organizations I hope to communicate with soon. And now that I have the TuneTalk, I can be a bit more spontaneous and mobile with recoding as well. Plus my buddy Stephen will be back in town. If that doesn’t lead to some improvement in production, I don’t know what will. The dude’s clever like that (nudge, nudge). Assuming he makes it safely back from San Francisco via the Panama Canal.

I have been experimenting with live productions with the help of these fine folks. I expect that will continue in the future. I hope to add some video to the mix too.

There is the TONMOCON II in June to look forward to. Lots of cephalopody goodness there.

In the bigger picture, I agree with some sentiments voiced by Leo Laporte. The shine is off podcasting. All the early adopters have adopted. All the secondary adopters have contracted with the early adopters for support and services. If there is any rush at all in the coming year, it will be when Microsoft finally adds podcast support to Windows Media Player.

So if you have any predictions for the next year, or ideas for future podcasts, let me know. Email pulpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com or leave a comment. Thanks!

Let the Hiatus Re-End

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Jason
on November 26, 2006
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My Powerbook G4 has been out of commission. It started with a frayed cord near the brick of the power adapter. This seems to be a common situation. Sadly, Apple classifies this as my problem and would not fix it, even with AppleCare and visits to the Genius Bar. Out of desperation, I made the mistake of getting a 3rd party adapter. A couple weeks ago, the center prong on the connector broke off inside the computer. I tried to remove it myself, but the 2mm of metal wedge inside the power port won’t come out, despite various strategies. The repair is likely to be +$400. :(

Consequently, the Cephalopodcast has not received the attention it deserves. I hope to rectify that in the immediate future.

Thanks, Laughing Squid!

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Jason
on April 27, 2006
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Our hosting provider just bumped up cephalopodcast.com’s disk space by 50MB and monthly bandwidth by 3GB, all for free. Thanks, Laughing Squid!!!

Fish at work

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Jason
on March 31, 2006
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Updating the backend of the Cephalopodcast. Please pardon my pixels if things look wonky.

squid.us

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on March 12, 2006
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When first looking for a hosting provider for the Cephalopodcast, it seemed only natural to go with Laughing Squid. It seems there is something about cephalopods that inspires us all. Now they have a place to catalog it:

Welcome to “Squid“, Laughing Squid’s blog for all things squid. You want squid info, we got it.

Do you have any squid news, contact:
tentacle (AT) squid (DOT) us

please, no calamari recipies