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Category Archives: Audio post

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 [...]

 
icon for podpress  A Fairy, a Low-Fat Bagel, and a Sack of Hammers [4:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 [...]

 
icon for podpress  Interview with Jane Baxter [28:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 [...]

 
icon for podpress  Perry's Podcast #4 [13:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.
Yesterday, I downloaded and installed Hot Recorder, a simple little application that is designed to do just that, and it works like a [...]