I’ve made passing reference to a podcast I started a little over a year ago in posts here. The home page for the podcast can be found at TPTBNL.com. I wanted to share links for those who might want to subscribe. Subscription links follow:
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Recently I had the opportunity to view a rocket launch. My wife and I were about 13 miles away from NASA’s launchpad at Space View Park in Titusville, Florida. Here is a bit of audio from the launch. I’m not sure how to add captions directly to this file so a bit of a description follows. The audio starts with a fair amount of crowd noise. Someone was playing a live webcast of the launch…
Leave a CommentWhen I first wrote about using virtual machines with a screen reader, I mentioned that the machine management of VMWare’s Workstation was challenging. VMWare Workstation 16 seems to have corrected the majority of these issues. The list of virtual machines is now something you can reach with the tab key. Up and down arrow will move to the different machines and a context menu on each machine available with Shift+F10 or the computer’s application shortcut…
Leave a CommentSan Francisco State University has a position posted for a Web Accessibility Coordinator. According to the announcement,application reviews will start on November 13. The salary for the position is posted as an estimated range of $6,667.00-$6,867.00monthly or $80,004.00-$82,404.00 annually.
Leave a CommentOver the years I’ve used a range of solutions for solving the basic challenge of wanting to experiment with new versions of operating systems, screen readers, applications and more without breaking a working system. From using dedicated test computers, various hard drive imaging solutions, dual booting (running two operating systems on the same machine) and of course using what are known as virtual machines through the various virtual machine technologies available. The majority of my…
One CommentI’m someone who enjoys long form journalism and there’s obviously quite the supply online. In fact, there is so much content at times that sifting through it all can be daunting. One resource I’ve found that has consistently delivered an excellent selection of reading material is called The Sunday Long Read. The two individuals behind the weekly collection do a stellar job at finding interesting material to read. Sign up on the web…
Leave a CommentAfter several years of using MovableType to run my blog, I’ve decided to kick the electronic tires as it were on a different blogging platform. WordPress seems to offer more of the functionality and ease of use I’m looking for with the level of blogging I do. Reading through blog archives, I also realize my blogging has really fallen off in the past couple years. Watch for that to change in the new year. As…
Leave a CommentFor anyone who likes to try the latest and greatest in software, a beta of Windows 7 is now available. full details with instructions on how to download and more are at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows7. Whether you try the beta or not, there are at least two excellent resources for learning what’s happening with Windows 7 from people at Microsoft. The Engineering Windows 7 blog and The Windows Blog are resources where extensive info about how…
Leave a CommentI read a lot of news coverage but rarely do I read the same article appearing in two different media sources when one is just a reprint of the other. Today I happened to read two versions of an article talking about the impending execution of Saddam Hussein. The original appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the reprint in the Seattle Times. Sad that the news media does not agree on even two…
Leave a CommentThe daily flood of advertising promising to get you a bigger house, lower your mortgage payment or otherwise basically give you free money astounds me. I counted tonight and in 30 minutes of radio and television I was offered no fewer than 10 different opportunities to lower my mortgage, get cash back and the rest of the wild schemes the mortgage industry has come up with to keep the housing shell game going. The…
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