Words Fail Me

After my short experiment with exepod I am launching a brand new podcast next week, Words Fail Me.

I will be joined by my good friend Dave, and we will be reading through the greatest book of books - the dictionary!

May not sound thrilling but bear with us, we think it will be more entertaining than it sounds.

Find out more at http://wordsfailmepodcast.blogspot.com/ and do download the first episode later next week.

End of the Summer...

It clearly is the end of the summer, despite a nice day yesterday. I can feel it in the mornings, the flat is really cold! But I don't mind too much as we are off on holiday to Majorca on Saturday for a week, yay!

Have had a good few weeks since the last exepod post, had a fun game of Poker at the Double Locks (I lost), have been watching a lot of motor racing, F1, BTCC and even some of the ALMS series from the states. I have also rediscovered my GT Pro Series game on the Wii, and am excited at the launch of an official F1 game for the wii next month.

We also went to a fun walk to Turf Locks one evening...

Will try and blog after the holiday with some pictures, and if anyone has any ideas for the next exepod, or wants to help in recording it let me know, would be nice to have more than my voice on it.

(Steam train whizzing past Powderam)

SPCK, Jobs and Podcasting

Good news about the USDAW employment tribunal against St Stephen the Great Charitable Trust. 32 workers have had a payout, covering missing wages and other costs. More can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8218413.stm and all the other usual places!

Ivonne didn't get the Bristol job, and has not heard from the other one yet. Imminent plans of a life in the big city are delayed for the moment! Other jobs have been applied for, hopefully she will hear back from some of those soon.

I have been playing with a voice recorder, microphone and editing software with a view to put together some sort of podcast (or podcast segment for someone elses podcast). Had a fun afternoon playing with Audacity, anyone else have any advice of really simple Podcasting tools for the PC?

Off to poker tonight, wish me luck!

Chillies

For Chris and all the Naked Scientist Forum readers here are our Chillies!

Online and Cornwall

In the last few months I have discovered Twitter, although I am not totally convinced of the purpose of it I have found it a lot of fun, and a good way of keeping up and communicating with some of the comedians I enjoy so much, such as Richard Herring, Sarah Millican and Mark Watson, and also broadcasters such as Andrew Collins, Geoff Lloyd and Simon Mayo. Some of them have even replied to my comments, I certainly don't expect any replies, but it is lovely that these busy people find a moment to throw a comment back at me! Add me if you like, NeilDenham1978

I have been enjoying the Naked Scientist podcasts the last few months, if you have even a passing interest in science then this podcast from Cambridge is well worth a listen. It is professional, never patronises, but also never leave complicated terms unexplained. This week they even answered a question from me! http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=24758

I have also realised that I have not posted since we went away to Cornwall way back in March! We had a lovely time and the weather was mostly good! It really is a great time to go away, it is totally quiet down there. Here are just a few pictures.