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Most Hmm-worthy posts from June 3 - June 9, 2006
- Summer fan rotation = clockwise, Winter = counter-clockwise (3) [june 3]
- Magellan RoadMate 800 Portable GPS vs. Tablet PC vs. Pocket PC and UMPC (5) [june 4]
- What is your guilty pleasure? (1) [june 5]
- Hmm Gone Wild, now what does your website sound like? (4) [june 5]
- 6 stories on 666 starting here and ending here [june 6]
- MLB makes bush league move complaining about Slingbox usage (2) [june 7]
- How many years do you have left according to DeathForecast.com? (6) [june 7]
- *How to create, maintain and manage a secure password system (2) [june 8]
- Get your checkbook ready, House votes down Net Neutrality (0) [june 9]

This week historical news events
- Google Spreadsheets in limited trial beta
- Amazon Fishbowl internet-only talk show hosted by Bill Maher with first guest Dean Koontz
- Xbox Live Dashboard update with 125 new features
- Washington State makes online gambling a class c felony as of June 7
- Oops! BlogExplosion sale financing falls through, so it’s back on the block again
- House votes down Net Neutrality

Comments by
X, Chris Davies, iiq374, Kara

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

How to subscribe to Hmmcast
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Duration: 7:51

Download Hmmcast #10 (mp3)

Most Hmm-worthy posts from May 27 - June 2, 2006
- On June 7 online gambling becomes felony in Washington state (1) [may 27]
- A 404 page with feelings (2) [may 28]
- Send a smile or frown during Office 2007 testing (0) [may 30]
- Aykroyd unplugged on UFOs (0) [may 30]
- How to install ASP.NET with Visual Studio on Windows XP (2) [may 31]
- I won’t be buying into Windows Live OneCare, will you? (7) [may 31]
- Is Barney Fife behind the Vonage IPO or
what? (2) [june 1]
- *Disputing 8 of 13 reasons to consider using Microsoft for developing web apps (0) [june 2]

This week historical news events
- Ask.com launches blog and feed search using Bloglines subscribers
- Wordpress 2.0.3 and Firefox 1.5.0.4 released
- X-Men 3 easily snags top spot in theaters from Da Vinci Code
- Michael Moore being sued by armless Iraq war vet over using scenes in Fahrenheit 9/11 used allegedly without permission that misrepresented the vet’s sentiments
- The Rocket, Roger Clemens, signs with Astros for remainder of year and a couple million bones per month salary
- scientists find evidence of meteor crash that caused biggest mass extinction ever on earth
- eBay to launch blogs at blogs.ebay.com/USER_ID

Comments by
iiq374, Janine (website?), Ned Porting, darkmoon, and Marc Orchant

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

How to subscribe to Hmmcast
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Duration: 10:11

Most Hmm-worthy posts from May 20 - May 26, 2006
- Review: The Da Vinci Code AKA Richie Cunningham’s Unhappy Days (0) [may 20]
- Ever wake up and think it’s a different day? (1) [may 21]
- StumbleUpon second wind (7) [may 22]
- Over 90% of blog comments are spam, reports Akismet (5) [may 23]
- How to add Sphere It function based on number of words in post (2) [may 23]
- Who will click to play video ads from Google or anybody else? (2) [may 23]
- Create your own street and other signs online (2) [may 24]
- Playing for up to $10 million dollars in Moola (4) [may 24]
- *Not such a G’day World at TPN? Mick and Cam now just Cam (8) [may 25]
- O’Reilly lawyers send cease-and-desist over Web 2.0 usage (4) [may 25]

This week historical news events
- Yahoo buddies up with eBay, YPN to show on eBay ad results
- Microsoft releases a bunch of betas: Vista, Office 2007, Expression Web Designer and more
- Vonage IPO debuts on NYSE (symbol: VG) and drops 25% in first two days, the worst IPO of 2006 thus far
- Mastercard IPO debuts
- Despite negative reviews Da Vinci Code movie racks up over $200 million in opening weekend

Comments by
Sterling Camden, Randy Charles Morin and Gary Bourgeault

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

How to subscribe to Hmmcast
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Duration: 11:50

A first take effort and the second shortest to date. Error: change “cheetah” to “chimpanzee” (you’ll hear where).

Most Hmm-worthy posts from May 13 - May 19, 2006
- Peanut Butter and Jelly 2.0 (2) [may 13]
- Helpful security, recovery and protection-related Firefox extensions (3) [may 15]
- Dean receive his Da Vinci Quest cryptex in the mail (25) [may 15]
- Yahoo slaps a new coat of paint on their homepage and moves some furniture (2) [may 16]
- *Play virtual $100,000 stocks game and win $100 USD from Hmm (5) [may 17]
- 26 years ago she blew her top (3) [may 18]
- For employees Microsoft throws in the towels (3) [may 19]

This week historical news events
- patent office taking another look at Amazon 1-click patent
- RIAA takes XM Radio to court over record option in new players
- Windows Media 11 beta released
- DNA testing confirms belief that man and ape evolved from a single ancestral population

Comment by
Nathan Weinberg

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

How to subscribe to Hmmcast
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Duration: 8:02

Most Hmm-worthy posts from May 6 - May 12, 2006
- Review: United 93 (1) [may 6]
- Blogging from the Windows desktop with BlogDesk (6) [may 7]
- Judge rules against Beatles parent company over Apple lawsuit (1) [may 8]
- Share Your OPML already being gamed on the first day (12) [may 8]
- Literally three quarters of a penny for my thoughts (10) [may 9]
- Does blogging really help the big business bottom line? (2) [may 10]
- Day 24 of 24 in Da Vinci Quest: ends with an anagram (41) [may 10]
- *How to build a Google subscribed link for your about/bio page step by step (1) [may 11]

This week historical news events
- E3 2006 with PS3 pricing announced, under the covers of Wii
- Google holds a press day and releases Google Trends, Co-op, desktop v4 with gadgets and promises Notebook for next week
- MySpace enters the IM arena

Comments by
Johannes, Alex Barnett and Larry Borsato

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

How to subscribe to Hmmcast
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Duration: 9:55

Argh, another two-taker this week and I screwed up a Spider-man quote “becomes” instead of “comes” at the very beginning. I sure hope Spidey doesn’t mind. At the very end of the Hmmcast I leave a somewhat cryptic comment about the whole Google being sued as source of KP.

Just so I’m not misunderstood on something I feel very seriously about and to learn more about my opinion against confusing KP with children having access to legal adult content (because their parents aren’t doing anything) — which happens constantly and not accidentally — see these posts: Adult sites won’t go quietly into the night, The Child Protection act is a cover story and Freedom under assault: 2257, porn and politics. The lawsuit against Google is crazy if it really, seriously is alleging that Google is profiting from KP. Disclaimer: I own GOOG stock.

Rank and file
This isn’t part of the Hmmcast — consider it bonus coverage in the blog part — but I decided to look at the Libsyn listener numbers and rank the first few podcasts by number of listens and time. Here’s how they rank as of this writing:

1. (238) Hmmcast #3 8:32
2. (176) Hmmcast #5 11:41
3. (143) Hmmcast #1 7:29
4. (128) Hmmcast #2 9:43
5. (109) Hmmcast #4 8:59

The most listened to program unsurprisingly was the one after I went on a podcast submission spree. I suspect some (most?) of those numbers were increased by the sites that moderate the podcasts before listening to them.

The vast majority of downloads are coming through iTunes according to libsyn which indicates being listed in iTunes is important, although Feedburner only shows the subscriber breakdown as 25% iTunes. So while many listeners might download and listen through iTunes searches, not as many actually subscribe through iTunes. I’m sharing these numbers as part of the discovery process.

For newer readers, I’m not brand new to podcasting. In fact, our webmaster cookbook podcast was among the first batch of podcasts on the web (September/October 2004). I also have been doing a monthly podcast the last Thursday of the month called the Learning Lounge for over a year and a half now. Hmmcast is actually the third regularly scheduled podcast. As is the case Hmm wasn’t my first regular blog either.

Most Hmm-worthy posts from April 29 - May 5, 2006
- Faking Fido’s death, not trusting any one source and “robster craws” (5) [apr 29]
- How to access Napster downloaded songs on Xbox 360 without Media Center (2) [apr 30]
- Illegal immigrants marching only in America (11) [may 1]
- Where is the UMPC coverage at Yahoo Tech? (0) [may 2]
- Foam memory pillows (5) [may 3]
- Seeing first HD-DVDs in the stores, is your checkbook ready? (3) [may 4]
- *Why you should never use a default blog theme (7) [may 5]

This week historical news events
- Original theater-version of Star Wars will be released for three months
- Skype releases 100 person conference feature
- Rumour that Vista might be delayed until second quarter
- tracks will remain 99 cents at iTunes
- AOL/AIM to add free local number feature
- lawsuit accuses Google of profiting from KP

Comments by
Darkmoon, Diane, Dean from Des Moines and qw1j1b0

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

How to subscribe to Hmmcast
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iTunes - Hmmcast is now available and listed in iTunes, just search for “hmmcast” or “TDavid” in the iTunes podcast menu.

If you don’t see the download/play mp3 menu below just click on over to the website. Thank you for listening and reading.

Duration: 11:38

The 5th Hmmcast crests the 10 minute mark but in the name of sharing (and shilling for) some more comments. Includes Hmm-worthy comments by regular readers and a Da Vinci book author who has been sued by the Da Vinci Code publisher Random House. This author claims he was plagiarized by Dan Brown and in the comments the author plagiarizes me (no, not really).

This also includes a screwed-up spoken cliche: “diamond in the rubble” — what’s that? Must be some Flinstones on the brain since we’ve been working our way through the first season DVD. Done in a single take.

Most Hmm-worthy posts from April 22 - April 28, 2006
- Dude, where’s my comments? (6) [apr 22]
- Day 7 of 24 Da Vinci Quest: symbol take five grid (3) [apr 23]
- Scoble says he’ll quit on the spot if Mini is fired (0) [apr 24]
- MySpace not so good enough for ad space? (1) [apr 24]
- Another sex is good for you two times a week study (14) [apr 24]
- The change country trick to try out Yahoo Mail beta (1) [apr 25]
- *Comprehensive IE7 beta 2 review [12 screenshots] (7) [apr 25]
- Day 10 of 24 Da Vinci Quest: it’s video time again (16) [apr 26]
- Make 3D models free for personal use with Google SketchUp (1) [apr 27]
- Wikiargument over Hacking Netflix being link-worthy and professional enough on Netflix page (4) [apr 27]

This week historical news events
- Microsoft buys videogame ad company Massive for $200-400 million, third quarter
- Judge uses Da Vinci Code in his ruling, and it’s cracked
- BlogExplosion sells for more than $100,000
- Nintendo names next gen console, codename Revolution, actual name: Wii

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

Comments by
Author Lewis Perdue, student Andrew Ferguson, software developer Sterling Camden

How to subscribe to Hmmcast
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iTunes - Hmmcast is now available and listed in iTunes, just search for “hmmcast” or “TDavid” in the iTunes podcast menu.

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Duration: 11:41

After realizing the Mr. Roboto version of Hmmcast #4 wouldn’t work, I re-recorded and thus it’s getting out a little later today.

Most Hmm-worthy posts from April 15 - April 21, 2006
- [11 pictures] Unpacking and running the Xbox 360 premium bundle for the first time (2) [apr 15]
- Free directories to submit your podcast (0) [apr 16]
- Yabba Dabba Do Smoke (4) [apr 16]
- When the Xbox 360 says to call customer support (3) [apr 17]
- *Why subscribe to newspapers any more? (10) [apr 18]
- Philips anti-commercial skipping patent (3) [apr 18]
- Currently your most used Windows browser? (3) [apr 19]
- Amazon price comparison with Priceheat bookmarklet (6) [apr 19]
- Hmm quickies #23 (7) [apr 20]
- Any Sudoku fans in the house? (6) [apr 21]

This week historical news events
- Google teams up with Sony for 24 day Da Vinci Quest
- Linden Labs announces they will discontinue ‘dwell’ payments by June 13, 2006 in Second Life
- Allegations that a Digg editor fix is in
- Wikitruth launches as answer to anal-retentive WikiPedia editing
- Beatles plan to release library for legal online music download

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

Comments by
Redune, Jack Yan, Matt Wardlaw, Digital Brian

How to subscribe to Hmmcast
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Duration: 8:59

Have to listen to this week’s Hmmcast to find out the biggest news of the week and yes, it’s a surprise (in our household, psyche). Meanwhile, if you missed this week’s Hmm-worthy posts and comments, just hit them below.

According to Libsyn stats, 121 people have checked out the first Hmmcast and 105 last week so far. Feedburner claims only 8 have subscribed to the Hmmcast feed. Does that mean Hmmcast #3 won’t top 100 listeners this week? The suspense is killing me, it’s like an episode of Twilight Zone mashed up with Perry Mason and The X-Files.

How will readers know if I’m talking about them or not? The only way is to scroll down and listen. Alright, enough flexing, time to pump the metal. The number in the parenthesis after each link is the number of comments received at the time the podcast was recorded.

Most Hmm-worthy posts from April 8 - April 14, 2006
- Comment tracking competition, MAMP and WAMPANY development (10) [apr 8]
- Microsoft kills FrontPage for Expression(tm) Web Designer (4) [apr 8]
- Get some of that fine nerd lovin (1) [apr 10]
- Will you buy a hybrid or environment friendly car? (7) [apr 12]
- Live.com will become default Vista destination (3) [apr 12]
- Jacko may say beat it to 25% more of Beatles library (2) [apr 13]
- *Google calendar major weakness is being a web app (4) [apr 13]
- Symantec is not completely in the “protection” business (5) [apr 13]
- (S+C) x (B+F)/T = V or just assquation for short (5) [apr 13]
- TiVo nine lives not gone, wins Echostar lawsuit (0) [apr 14]

This week historical news events
- Microsoft launches Live Academic search
- TiVo wins Echostar lawsuit
- Google Calendar beta launches

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

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Duration: 8:32

In light of last week’s Hmmcast feedback saying the length wasn’t too big a deal, I didn’t try to get five minutes or under. This week’s Hmmcast was done in a single take, complete with umms and ahhs and beamed straight from my brain to mouth to microphone, for better or worse.

Most Hmm-worthy posts from April 1 - April 7, 2006
- Bizarre human body PC case mod (3) [apr 1]
- So far the foolers are being foolish (3) [apr 1]
- Technorati not picking up most Blogcharm blogs, BC owners mystified (5) [apr 2]
- Will the Simpsons movie in 2007 sink Titanic box office record? (2) [apr 2]
- Hollywood still treating us like thieves in new release DVD download deal (3) [apr 3]
- Wardrobe Malfunction not only in US (3) [apr 4]
- I Sold It on Ebay: cool looking store, subpar internet presence (7) [apr 4]
- Human time travel really possible before 2100? (1) [apr 5]
- *Stop using Alexa for serious traffic analysis (1) [apr 6]
- Will it really matter if the PS3 costs more than $500 USD at launch? (7) [apr 6]

This week historical news events
- Apple announces bootcamp

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

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Duration: 9:43