Blogging Ottinger (tim)Commute-time enjoyment
I’ve gotten rather familiar with a few programs which help to make my absurdly-long daily commute time a little less unpleasant.
One of them I mentioned before is SlashDotReview (to whom I can say that objects are now a little further away than they once appeared). This is still a nice slashdot summation with tasty indy music every day.
Speaking of music, I’m moderatly addicted to The Portland Jazz Jams. I’m learning more about jazz and music through this program, and I’ve always loved jazz. It’s sweet stuff. Sometimes it’s interviews, sometimes it’s playing, and sometimes it’s the coveted guitar talk.
Third is a strange little podcast called the Linux Link Tech Show, where I enjoy all kinds of interesting banter about “unreliable bash scripts” (I agree, a dumb string of words) and various problems in the industry. I like that they don’t whitewash problems with browsers, macs, skype and even asterisk on the show. There is software that works for them, and software that does not. They don’t bother editing out the problems and mistakes.
These are just good drive-time company. There are perhaps more and less uplifting work out there, but these are quick becoming some of the staples of my week. Thanks for all the hard work, podcasters. Keep it up.
