By Perry, 1 year and 6 months ago

Speaking up

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 classes in elocution, which I doubt you would find in many modern curricula. And in a way, I think that's sad, because I believe that its absence probably contributes to that almost-universal fear many people have about speaking in public.

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By Perry, 2 years ago

An interview with Jane Baxter

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 visit in a blog post at the time.  Since then, I've wanted to do an interview of Jane about the business that she has started, and at long last on this past Saturday, Jane and I got together by phone to do that.  The audio blog post that you can listen to below contains the edited result of that interview. 

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By Perry, 2 years and 2 months ago

A podcast commemorating 9/11

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 my blog posts and the other is Hot Recorder, mentioned previously, that permits me to record Skype conversations.

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By Perry, 2 years and 2 months ago

Eureka!

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.

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