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The response to my first podcast has been very gratifying. Thank you to all of you who have commented both here at my blog and by email.

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I've just recorded and uploaded the first of Perry's Podcasts. Although I've done a few before now, they were all experimental for the purpose of testing the software. With this podcast, I begin those that are essentially my conversation with the world.

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'Star Trek' Star James Doohan Dies - Yahoo! News: «James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original 'Star Trek' TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command 'Beam me up, Scotty,' died early Wednesday. He was 85.»

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The EULA (End User License Agreement) is encountered by all of us when we install a piece of software on our computer, but for most people it passes by so quickly that we don't even recognize that we have seen it. It's that box where you must check «I agree» before continuing through the installation. If you don't click it, you can't go forward. So most people, it appears, just click it and move on.

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I awoke a bit after 6 am and got started on my walk, for the 8th day in a row, at about 6:40 am. The weather is quite humid, and this morning it was foggy throughout the walk, which ended at 7:15 am. I worked up a good sweat, but it feels good to continue my exercise. I've now settled in at my computer with my first cup of coffee to catch up on what is happening on the Internet and in the world.

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If you are an aspiring podcaster, there's a new trial version of MixCast Live available. It never expires, so you can take as long as you like to try it out. Thought it doesn't have all the features of the full version, it does have all the essentials, and it will enable you to get up and podcasting immediately. I recommend you check it out.

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I went over this evening to visit Tom Wright, and while there I helped him install another 512 Mb of RAM in his computer. We also installed and ran Spybot Search and Destroy V 1.4 and Firefox V 1.0.6. Spybot helped to clean out some nasties from Tom's computer, and I demonstrated Firefox for him. He'll be using it for the next several days as he tests it out. I believe that once he has «driven» it for a while, he'll remain a dedicated fan.

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This afternoon at about 2 pm my Knight in Shining Armor (aka the Comcast repairman) came to the house and strung a new cable from the cable box to the entry point at the side of my house and immediately restored my connection. I am therefore «back in the saddle again,» as Gene Autry used to sing. The only downside of being connected again is that I received 498 messages from one of the mailing lists I'm on. In all, I was without my connection for five days. I feel as if I have come back into the land of the living at long last.

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When I went to bed last night, that song from the musical «Annie» kept running through my head, with slightly altered lyrics. I was hearing, «Oh, the 'net'll come up tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be mail.» But ...

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I'm into day 3 without access to the Internet. The walls at my house have fingernail marks on them, but I'm surviving with the occasional fix I get by visiting Mike's house and using his laptop and Internet connection to «get by» until the repairman comes out on Monday. Thanks to Darrell's comment (to my previous post), I've been alerted to make sure I request a credit from Comcast for the time I've been without service.

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