I dashed off to the Admiral’s club there, chowed down a quick lunch. Ok, so I packed up my stuff, and headed over to the gate where I had an uneventful flight to Saint Louis. Here’s where it gets sad – as I finished up the recording, I noticed that the big round record button on Wiretap Studio was still staring me in the face! Oh SHOOT – this means that I had NOT recorded a four minute review, I’d recorded nothing! Crud. Amongst many entertaining responses, Tim Verpoorten of the MacReviewCast suggested that I make a recording for his show (I’ve been sadly neglecting my assumed responsibilities over there lately!) So I went over to the sound proofish booths again, since I didn’t need internet access to record directly to my computer, and I fired off a very rapid four minute recording. When I was first stranded, I wrote to Twitter and suggested that Twitterville entertain me. We did end up pulling it off, but I was in an open area where there were kids hollering, so I hope you can bear up with it! At the beginning Skype was being grumpy on my end, so Bart’s voice is a tad garbled but as is often the case with Skype, it healed itself after a while and improved a bunch. this should be great! Until I walked over to the phone booth areas, where there was just about zero signal! Argh. I tested the broadband connection before I left the cushy seats, and it was a very respectable 1.5mbits up AND down. That meant that I spent those first five hours at LAX sitting in a cushy leather chair with free wifi and even a place to plug in my laptop! So I got this great idea to try and record Chit Chat Across the Pond with Bart from one of the lovely sound proof-ish booths for making phone calls. My darling husband Steve (have I mentioned that he’s a saint lately?) bought me membership to the Admiral’s Club at American Airlines for my birthday. I did make good use of my time though when I was stuck in the airports. so, instead ofĪrriving at the civilized time of 6 pm for Harvey and Melissa to pick me up, I rolled in around 11pm. Of course when I tried to leave from Missouri we got caught in a rainstorm and couldn’t take off for an hour. They booked me on the next flight 5 hours later through Saint Louis, Missouri. No offense to our Dallas listeners, but I have NEVER gone through Dallas and had it turn out a good thing! So as soon as I arrive at the airport at 7 am (got up at 5) they announce that my flight is simply cancelled. Getting there was a nightmare – I literally could have flow to Europe from LA in less time! I was SUPPOSED to fly from LAX to Dallas and then on to Richmond, Virginia, and I TOLD Steve when I realized I’d booked through Dallas something would go wrong. I just got back from a 3 day visit to my friends Harvey & Melissa out in a little town called Ashland, Virginia. Today is Sunday August 24th, 2008, and this is show number 166. Jane and Rose tee off with Chit Chat Across the Nullarbor, and in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I discuss how MobileMe is running in clear text and letting your information float freely about the interweb. Willie tells us 238 other ways to delete podcasts in iTunes, and Michelle tells us about a great new Adobe Air application called Social Addict from. Rundown of my favorite photo sharing options, including jAlbum, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, and not using Flickr or MobileMe. In Dumb Question Corner we get answers to the nagging question of whether it matters to have your headphones in the right ears. Recording from the Admiral’s Club while stuck at the airport.
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