Monday, October 09, 2006
Swimming in Acronyms
Damn, my attempt to improve efficiency hasn't quite succeeded yet. I'm sitting on 3 posts that I haven't quite been able to get posted. More like 5 posts as two of them were stopped and continued. Worse, they now sit astride overlapping points in time, so just going back and posting them in order won't cure the situation. One of them involves a disagreement Nian and I had, so that may be one reason I'm having trouble finding just the right way to tell the stories.
I also spent most of the night getting new apps installed on my Nokia 770 to get things done in a more UNIX like manner. I had already installed a voice recorder app on my Nokia and now I wanted to ftp the sound file I had made directly to my blog (this blog) on jaytv.com. I ended up having to download and install bash, ftp, and Xterm and several support files for these before I got to the point where I could do what I wanted to do. I had assumed the audio files would be in mp3 format, but when I finally found where the first file was tucked away on the file system it turned out to be a new file type used for VoIP called iLBC. I transferred the .ilbc file, but neither IE nor FireFox were able to play it directly (they filled the screen with a long string of ASCII garbage).
For those that already have the appropriate file converting software or player my first mobile internet recording can be found at http://www.jaytv.com/larrys/blog/pod/nokia_recording_01.ilbc. The rest of you will have to wait until I figure out how to convert these files to mp3 (or some other podcast friendly format). If I do figure out an easy way to do this I may be tempted to turn my posts in to podcasts as well. After all the WWW has just been waiting to make me a podcast star.
