As my friend Jerry observes in this post, we humans love to talk, to hear the sound of our own voice, sometimes even though what we are saying is just meaningless babble. I plead guilty. Can’t help it. It’s just the way I am. In fact, when I was in grade school they even had [...]
Back on November 6th of 2004, I traveled back to Stone Mountain, GA, to attend a family reunion of the Baxter branch of my family (my mother’s maiden name was Baxter) where I was privileged to meet a member of the family I hadn’t met before, Jane Baxter (pictured at the left). I described that [...]
Although there will be many tributes and commemorations of the events of 9/11 today, I wanted to use the occasion to get back to podcasting and to test a couple of new tools I’ve found. The first is a plugin for WordPress called podPress that makes it easier for me to add a podcast to [...]
For a long time, at least since December of 2004, I’ve been searching for a tool that will permit me to record both sides of a Skype call. Finally, I’ve found it. Yesterday, I downloaded and installed Hot Recorder, a simple little application that is designed to do just that, and it works like a [...]