October’s site news
It’s a wee while since I’ve done a news round-up, so here goes.
First, there’s a rather new site, Trans-Pacific Radio, that does mostly politics-related stories on Japan and East Asia, often covering the news that other services either don’t translate or just scratch the surface of. They’ve got both a blog and regular podcasts (or netcasts, if you prefer), which I must admit I’ve not listened to yet, so please pay them a visit.
Talking of netcasts, now my new phone has a built-in audio player, what I’d really love to find is an RSS feed to SD Audio converter utility, so I could automatically add the casts to my mini SD card for listening to on the way to work. Anyone know of such a beast? Also, does anyone recommend a good tool to downsample video to mobile phone size, or to strip off the audio track?
Talking of mobile phones, I managed to view this blog, including the graphs all nicely scaled down, on my Panasonic P702iD, but when I tried adding a comment, Spam Karma crashed (the only problem I’ve ever had with this essential comment spam elimination tool for all bloggers) when trying to do the Captcha. The comment was safely quarantined, however, and could have been recovered if necessary.
Finally, I think I’ve got a touch of the flu coming on, so if I miss a couple of days over the weekend, you know what’s wrong with me.
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Ken said,
October 28, 2006 @ 16:33
Thanks for the mention Ken. Anytime you’re ready to listen, everything’s there!
I’m planning to get a keitai upgrade this week. After years of using the most basic, free models available, I finally want something with some functions under the hood. I’ll have to go with AU, though - switching from Softbank and I owe DoCoMo money from like 1999.
I’ll ask around about a downsampling tool. It’s something I want to check out as well, so I’ll let you know what I find…
Pozycjonowanie said,
December 10, 2006 @ 00:40
Someone else below asked this already.
I am getting nailed with Spam in my website for our blog website. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated. http://www.profesjonalna-reklama.pl
Thanks Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland
Ken Y-N said,
December 10, 2006 @ 23:48
Hi Pozycjonowanie,
I use Spam Karma and Bad Behaviour to great effect, but as you seem to be hosted on WordPress.com, I don’t believe they allow you to run your own plugins.
Oops, I also see you’ve been suspended by WordPress.com, which is another good reason to spend some money and host your blog yourself!