Comments on: 103. Bargain basement

By: indir

indir — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:47:13 +0000

s it just me or is Paul getting quieter and quieter (as in volume-wise on the podcast)?? Marcus is fine but can barely hear Paul. Please can you sort it out?!!

By: firma rehberi

firma rehberi — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:08:20 +0000

My post on the rules of unobtrusive JavaScript was just referring to one of Chris Heilmann’s excellent posts. He should be credited, not me :-).

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:25:17 +0000

The image is back. Sorry about that :)

By: Stina K

Stina K — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:41:42 +0000

Oh, the picture’s gone missing. But in any case, creative mess is the right way for me. I need everything so close I don’t have to get my eyes off the screen that I won’t lose the tracks I’m thinking along. Too clean I just end up staring a wall or desk or something thinking about things completely unrelated to what I’m doing. Especially if there’s a window!
I also have to say that I find it easier to work with music because a familiar sound (I almost never listen to songs I don’t know really well) helps keep my thoughts moving along the song. No matter what I’m working on (could be anything from blog postings to poetry/prose, graphics to painting or coding). In a way the music gives my thinking a rhythm. If a thought gets interrupted, the song will help to pick it up again. It’s a bit hard to explain how it works exactly but I get distracted very easily if I don’t have familiar music. Having said that, I really do notice the songs that are playing as well as listen the music and the lyrics, it’s not just for background noise. But that’s me, I even read books whilst watching TV. Though usually so that the thing that I’m reading/writing is in different language than the thing I’m listening/watching (f.ex. if I’m writing a post in English, I tend to listen to French or Italian songs; if a TV show is in Italian, I read an English novel).
Very interesting segment! (Not a bad show over-all either.)

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:40:34 +0000

Do you still acually play Lemmings Marcus? ;-)

By: Firmalar

Firmalar — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:50:37 +0000

thanks.

By: oktay usta

oktay usta — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:48:13 +0000

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By: Sez Shares

Sez Shares — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:12:04 +0000

I enjoy music but not when I’m writing. The music I listen to at work tends to be classical or soundtrack compositions (Amelie is on high rotation at the mo). Opera also gets a look in, mostly cause my Italian is very limited so I can’t understand what they’re saying.
I very much like gmail’s documents ability. And it’s been said before but I say it again – Flickr. The new online tools are very impressive.

By: Paul boag

Paul boag — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:43:58 +0000

thank you all for your comments about the audio. You are certainly right that there is a problem and we are all too aware of it. Unfortunately it is not simply fixed with a compressor as has been suggested it is more complex than that. Fundamentally it is concerning a combination of mac audio recording software, limiations of the mac version of skype and the fact that myself and marcus don't record the show in the same room. In the last show I tried a new technique in the hope of overcoming the problem but as you point out it made it worse. That said I have finally found a hack in an XML file associated with skype which should do the trick. Next weeks show will be better. Honest!