I posted the entire list of audiobooks I've bought from our sponsor, Audible.com, in November 2015. But here we are more than a year later, and I've listened to quite a few more books. Here's an update in reverse chronological order... A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present Howard Zinn …
It Was 40 Years Ago Today…
On this day 40 years ago I took the train into New York City and sat for the exam for my third class ticket, the then required license for working in radio. The original certificate is long gone -- probably lost in the archives at my first station, WYBC New Haven -- but this is …
Tour the Brick House Studios
The old TWiT Brick House studios may be vacant now, but they live on in this 3D walkthrough, thanks to Tertius Carstens of Carstens360 Business Photos and Google Maps.Click the ^ to enter!
A Grand Experiment
The latest debacle over the "forced" upgrade to Windows 10 and Apple's increasingly locked-in ecosystem has got me thinking. Do I really need to use a proprietary operating system to get work done? And while I'm at it, do I need to use commercial cloud services to store my data?I've always used Linux since the …
Here’s a new UWP TWiT App
Got a very nice email today from David Neptune that will make our Windows Phone 10 users happy:Good morning!As a long-time listener to many of the TWiT shows (Love Windows Weekly, Know How and Coding 101), and a hobbyist windows developer, I built a solution for myself to make sure I could easily get to …
Using Scripting to Download TWiT Shows
Once again the TWiT Army rides to the rescue. A number of you have been looking for automated ways to download every single Security Now episode. I've received tweets and emails from several listeners who have provided their own scripts. I haven't tried them, but a cursory glance tells me they'll probably work and are …
The Road to NAB
We're headed to NAB for three days of shows next week. John "jammerb" Slanina heads out tonight for the long drive to Las Vegas. Load out is Saturday. I'll be doing Triangulation from the LiveU booth at 11a Pacific on. Monday with Skywalker sound engineer (and the voice of General Grievous), Matthew Wood. Megan Morrone …
Sheer Oculus Joy
Talk Less, Blog More
I don't need another iPad. No one does. That's probably why sales are plummeting. But I bought the new 9.7 inch iPad Pro anyway. Hey, it's my job. I also have a secret agenda. I'm betting it will be the perfect blogging platform.Two new features intrigued me.It's the first iPad to have a real camera. The …
Hour of the Wolf Blogging
The moon and Jupiter are out tonight. (Shot with the Galaxy S7 - talk about low light!) Yes, that's Jupiter!I am up every night at this time, around 4am. Jung called it the hour of the wolf. Either I'm going polyphasic or just getting old. But... I'm thinking if I published one blog post every night …
Fastmail Auto-Configure Chooses Wrong Port for Thunderbird
I thought I'd post this minor discovery here in the hopes that others would find it useful. I love Mozilla's Thunderbird email client. It does everything I want it to, including PGP/GPG via Enigmail, Calendering via Lightning, and Google contacts and Tasks via the Provider for Google Calendar extension.But I just couldn't get it to …
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