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Card Club Episode 11 is ready for download. Get it via .torrent

I got this from Alex who got this from Scott, who blames it all on Simon. Clearly, this post is not my fault.

1. At bloglines, find your own blog.
2. If it’s not there, register and add your blog.
3. After searching by your blog url, click related feeds.
4. Select “include” feeds that you’re subscribed to, if that’s your fancy.
5. Post the top 5 (or more) on your blog.

Results for brainscat.com follow…

1. Joe Beda’s EightyPercent.net — never heard of him, but I’m subscribed now.
2. Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger — everybody reads him, no suprise here.
3. Alain Leroy’s view on our world — another wildcard, but I’ll give him a shot.
4. Nate Furtwangler — coworker’s blog. Brandon’s leetle brother.
5. brandon.furtwangler blog — Brandon’s blog, not a suprise at all, since we both started blogging at the same time.

Has anyone else had problems with Bloglines dropping PubSub entries? Many times my ‘poker’ PubSub feed will appear to contain new items in Bloglines, but when I attempt to retrieve them, no items are shown.

Hey all, Card Club episode 9 is ready for download. Yours truly even has a bit part in the show. Download it via bittorrent, or directly.

Thanks to Hack-A-Day and Adam Curry for reminding me that I can put linux on my iPod. Normally, I would associate such ideas as nothing more than Slashdot karma whoring, but in this case it allows me to use the iPod hardware to record audio. Those of you who’ve heard my audio comments before know that my phone sucks, so I was hoping to turn things around here. It’s ridiculously simple to turn your 3G iPod into a hard drive based recorder.

1. Hook up your iPod.
2. Run the iPod-Linux Installer

3. Create a folder on the iPod called “Recordings”
4. Eject and reboot your iPod into linux (usually by holding the rewind button.)
5. Go to Extras->Recordings and start recording audio either with a microphone plugged in, or just shout into your headphones real loud. I’m not kidding, I did it, see below.
6. Remount iPod and edit your audio files in the “Recordings” directory you just made.

Listen to some very sad proof I recorded that this actually works. Be warned, though, I had to raise the volume in Audacity a bit. This works because basically microphones and speakers work on the same principle, magnets generating electricity by being vibrated, or magnets vibrating because of electricity passing by.

Well, for one, I’m glad that the new year has begun with my cold slinking back into remission. It’s simple but oh-so-nice to breathe again. Apparently, the cool thing is to post 2005 predictions, so here’s my stab at it.

• At least 3 people I know will start listening to podcasts regularly.
• I will have a poker bankroll of $100 pure profit
• Mono will mature to the point (System.Windows.Forms will mature…) where it boosts them much further into the spotlight.
• Searching for “Tor” on Google will show brainscat on the first page.
• Someone will create a fully distributed Tor p2p client that gains noteriety after a majority of torrent tracker sites are shut down.
• The courts will rule that Bittorrent is not illegal, but the tracker sites that advertise and facilitate illegal sharing as their primary function are liable for contributing damages.
• Justin will come back from Japan angrier than ever.
• I will finally have my hands on a TabletPC.

As you can see, I’m not one who’s much for shocking predictions. Let me know what you think.