My last weblog post explained that anyone can podcast on a budget. Other than my laptop I managed to start with no initial hardware costs. Recently I upgraded my equipment to improve the quality of my show. Like an elite runner I couldn't finish a marathon in my best time wearing flip-flops (we call them thongs in Australia, and I probably couldn't complete one wearing a pair of those either). I'd also still look like an idiot with stockings wrapped around my noggin.

The strangest NFS problem I've ever troubleshooted... Solaris 9 NFS serever; all clients were reporting "No record locks available."

Why is it that everything breaks before you leave town?

While configuring my shiny new Mac for music production, I discovered two free graphics programs that made the process much easier.

What's the appreciable difference between 1/4000 and 1/8000 shutter speeds?

I've wanted to mention this in a public forum for a while, and now that my O'Reilly blog is up and running I think it’s the perfect venue. Podcasting can be cheap. I can say that now that I've spent several hundred dollars upgrading my podcast rig. When I started though, I started on a budget.

You see a fairly inexpensive Cisco router advertised to support IPv6, so you scrounge up email addresses for people you know can connect you to the 6bone, dust off that IANA (or RIPE, APNIC) paperwork with your /32 allocation information, and purchase. What a mistake that was.

Related link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/05/18/ds2.html I’ve been getting lots of mail about my enthusiastic review of the Olympus DS-2 stereo voice recorder. Several readers wondered what I thought of the WS-200S, a smaller, higher-capacity model that came out shortly after I finished the review. Well, because I really liked the DS-2 but found it a tad too big for my (admittedly overcrowded)...

"I am predicting 50 years of chaos," says digital media thinker Clay Shirky. Sounds about right, though I'd guess it could be 50 years of chaos crammed into as little as 10 years. Hey, it'll be just like the '90's again.

I'm looking for a good wiki. Here's a few I've checked out so far...