msb-0130 Funk On Down

msb-0130 Funk On Down

intro

C'mon. I've visitors from Québec and from France.

Who's been on from "Paris, alors, hein?"

I've got visitors from Germany.

Who's been on from "Viesbaden?" (My old stomping/touring ground. [I walked the legs off of two US Marines, {one of which was my ex-brother-in-law,} and left them downing some brews after "schlepping" all day, at the "Huise Betty", while I went for a li'l walk 'round the neighborhood. :-])

Its like I'm facing a "wall of silence".

I'm stopping with the offers for the "Français" and for the "Deutch" for a while.

Meanwhile I'm having some success with the Dutch and the Greeks. I'm happy, so ptbtbtpth!

The language of diplomacy, being French of course, and the language of philosophy, being German of course, can take a bit longer, because they certainly are.

---- "Been So Long " by: "Uniao Black" http://www.commonfolkrecords.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

Jana was in touch.

She's my wife's friend who is the most recently diagnosed person we know.

[expletive deleted]!

I think I've got to develop better people skills.

I tried to be soothing and optimistic but we all know where I am in the disease progression scale of things.

We'll see if I was or not.

Drop her an email of concern to show her that she doesn't have to feel so friggin' alone:

BobbyandShirlett at aol.com

In the meantime, the rest of you are conspicuously absent from feedback.

----

I'm back to a twice weekly schedule (and I have shows ready for a while, [There's a lot of good bands out there.])

I'm heading back to work full time.

Actually by the time this show gets up for you'ze all to download, I'll have been back managing and coordinating a testing project across twelve time zones, full time for two days already.

Being a project manager means that I get to ladle out a gumbo of mumbo jumbo.

---- "Mumbo Jumbo " by: "B.D. Lenz" http://www.bdlenz.com/

Feed forward comes next, so...

Wha, haa! ... Nobody's got anything they want to share with all of you.

Oh well... Its my turn again, I guess.

This week, I got an e-Book called "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee, ISBN: 0-312-71234-0.

Its a fascinating read on the current state of the art in neuro- and cognitive-science.

Its an e-book so its useless if you don't use a computer (but since we're ALL using computers now, every last one of us, I don't feel bad about mentioning it.)

But you've got to be an AI geek to get the the full benefit.

(There's more about pimply-faced geekdom coming up on the next show.)

---- "Oh Face " by: "Beau Hall" http://www.beaurocks.com/

Feed Me! come third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Whachukumherefo" by: "GrooveHead" http://myspace.com/grooveheaddc

Main Topic: Funk On Down.

Some days I just feel funky and some days I feel "Funky!".

This is is a day when I feel "Funky!". (Hey, they are rare enough to savor when I chance upon one.)

Life used to be made of panoramas and vistas that unfolded in front of me, like the view from atop a mountain.

Miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles.

Now I'm older and its more like the view from the floor of the great Western desert (how did that change in perspective occur?) and now the mountains are starting to loom closer.

Being lame just means that I'm leaving two furrows in the sand as I'm being dragged along, inexorably, towards them.

But the fact is that I'm going just as fast or as slowly as the rest of us.

I just can't "dance" to the post anymore.

---- "Factory " by: "Junkstar" http://www.junkstar.co.uk/

Main topic, part "deux":

Part of my own problems is that I am "not" stuck in one place.

Life moves on and so have I.

My MS is just part of the fabric of my life, part of the woof and warp of my life.

It may be less of a life than what could have been otherwise, (I used to be a good musician, guitarist, dancer, orator, uh, lots of things that I used to take for granted.)

But some other things have taken their place.

Okay, they're a lot more cerebral.

But they're the things that are left for me to do, left for me to "be".

I really don't feel like revisiting the symptoms, the litany of aches and pains that all MSers are stuck with.

Guess what?

Everybody's got aches and pains.

Ours may be more severe that most; the symptoms may be weirder than most; the phantom that haunt us may be more chilling than most; the locations may be more screwy than most, but that's "our" cross to bear.

I'm going to STFU and just let the next song just take us all over.

If one of the voices sounds familiar, it should.

Its Peter Gabriel singing a duet with Angelique Kidjo.

I haven't heard him singing as sweetly in years.

Here now is "Salala".

---- "Salala featuring Peter Gabriel" by: "Angelique Kidjo" http://www.kidjo.com/

outro

msb-0129 Double Dutch

msb-0129 Double Dutch

intro

Again with the offers.

"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"

"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."

(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]

---- "Police " by: "Psychic Hearts" http://www.myspace.com/psychichearts

Feedback comes first, so...

And I am delighted to report that I had a wonderful conversation with a lovely English and Dutch speaking young woman by the name of "Herrad". She's now working on putting together a podcast and getting her voice out there.

Its ironic but I suspect that the French and the Germans, whom I wanted to give a little "conversation sclerosée"or a little MS "stammtish" to, are being quite tardy and arriving late to the party.

Its now a matter of who will upload first?

Will it be "Homer[title] with his msb-gr-0001 [Title]?

Or will it be Herrad with her msb-nl-0001 [Title]?

No! Its not a race, or a contest.

Its just the facts.

I wish them success, long life, and as much health as we can squeeze out of our nervous system.

---- "Vette Funk - Dutch lyrics " by: "Dr Flexatone" http://www.flexatone.nl/

Feed forward comes next, so...

My wife's friend "Jana" just got officially diagnosed with MS. (What the odds [I know, I know, one in twelve-hundred] that my wife would know two people, two total strangers, from two entirely different locations, and both living with MS?)

She already had quite a struggle with other ailments so she was just figuring that her "tossing three or four spoons into the sink after dropping them," and other tremors, dead-skin patches and the like (a litany of which is quite familiar to us all,) was due to the other ailments and medications she was on.

Sadly, she just got hit by a bus with the license plate M.S. (as if she didn't have enough shi... , uh, stuff, in her life.)

Its really too bad because she really deserves better things in her life.

She's a great person who's raised great kids, has a odd menagerie of critters she cares for and keeps squirrels as pets. (You just have to see them. :-)

She's such a live wire, I'm sure she'll turn up on this show. (I'm just sorry to give her the opportunity.)

---- "Vaar nu mee - Dutch lyrics" by: "Dr Flexatone" http://www.flexatone.nl/

Feed Me! come third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Sleutels Portemonee en Shag - Dutch lyrics " by: "Dr Flexatone" http://www.flexatone.nl/

Main Topic: Double Dutch.

Double Dutch is actually an English expression which I first heard on Flanders and Swann's "At The Drop Of A Hat", lo many years ago.

Aw, screw it. I'm really bummed out about Jana. I'm just going to play the music.

---- "The Heats To Blame" by: "Casey Desmond" http://www.caseydesmond.com/

Main topic, part "deux":

I'm still bummed out.

But she's a real live wire.

I'm ashamed to even think this but maybe she'd be interested in doing this podcast with me.

It'd certainly change the dynamics.

I've got a face that's perfect for radio and not much voice left. She sounds lively and her pictures, and those of her squirrels, actually mean that she could take over this podcast.

---- "Heat demo " by: "RustCoat" http://www.myspace.com/rustcoatband

outro

msb-0128 What A (Lost) Weekend.

msb-0128 What A (Lost) Weekend.

intro

Again with the offers.

"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"

"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."

(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]

---- "Ein dickes Paar im Pool" by: "Automat" http://www.derautomat.de/

Feedback comes first, so...

I got an email and a phone call from the "Vice Consul, Economic & Commercial Affairs" in the Greek embassy here in New York.

A very nice man who was definitely trying to be helpful, and trying to set me straight on the policies of the Greek government, and most, if not all, governments, in the world.

Trying to, but not succeeding.

"Stupid is as stupid does" as Forrest Gump's mom intoned, and this policy is just plain stupid.

I am not a commercial affair and homer is definitely not either. We are trying to get information about living with MS and strictly about living with MS out to other MSers. (Basically, if you don't have MS, have a nice life. Ours probably won't be as nice as yours, but we're damn well going to try.)

They are depriving a citizen of their country from receiving a gift from a citizen of another country, just ...because...

There is no sensible reason for this and they can't ever make me think that there is.

Basically, he confirmed my thoughts ... my observations.

I'm better off sending a check.

Sending the equipment myself, as one individual to another, is one approach out that is right out of the window.

From now on I will send money to reimburse the MSers who participate in my MSBPodcast.com scheme to equip MSers of each linguistic group with the tools they need to gain a voice through the medium of podcasting.

Sorry but that's just the way it is.

Basically, I'm saying "fuck you right back" to all governments.

---- "How To Find A Decent Sushi Bar" by: "Brainpool" http://brainpool.nu/

Feed forward comes next, so...

I just got an email from Annie Hamel of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, (of America I guess [in a few paragraphs I'll get back to what I see as the limitations of national organizations meddling in what are pan-national problems, such as heath,]) promoting Microsoft's initiative for IM, a.k.a. instant messaging; what Microsoft attempts to call a cutesy "I'm".

(Microsoft is [in]famous for attempting to change the names of things, getting patents on their implementation, and then claiming to have invented the original underlying concept. [Advertisers are notorious for mucking with the language until they can legally claim that the word "best" actually means the phrase "as good as". Just remember what Mr Bumble said { http://www.bartleby.com/73/1002.html } in Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist": "The law is a ass..."])

To quote her email: "I'm writing to you because you have a very popular blog and podcast that discusses life with MS." (Like that's important or sumtin'. They sent an almost identical schpiel to "Miss Chris." Be that as it may, or it may not, I don't see them lining up to give me any press or any support, or to nudge any MS specific advertisers my way with a choice word in somebody's ear. [Well, its a good thing that that's "not" why I'm doing this anyway. :-] )

Microsoft is engaging in revenue sharing of their take from advertising on their IM service and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is one of the nine organizations that they are sharing the revenue with.

If you need to use instant messages, and you wouldn't mind an ad interruption in the flow of your messages, and you use Microsoft, then by all means use Microsoft's IM.

Go to im.live.com [ http://im.live.com/ ] and download the latest version of Windows Live Messenger.

Sorry, but I use Skype, a Linux box and several of Apple's Macintosh products (including some iSight cameras and associated video conferencing products) so it doesn't apply to me or mine. (Nobody has ever been able to accuse me of anything at work and I have made sure of that by using Apple products and programming in Smalltalk, both of which are definitely "beyond the fringe" in business. I'm extremely useful to them. They're basically useless to me, apart from their cash. That sets the tone for trust in consulting and commerce.)

But if you do take them up on it, please tell me about what the experience was like. (But only from an MSer perspective. [I really don't care about IM otherwise. I now type too slowly and I hit the backspace way too often for it to provide me with any kind of use. It requires entirely too much coordination. {It's like getting spam for dancing lessons. I'm really not likely to chomp at that bit, now am I.}])

(Its now a few paragraphs later. No I didn't forget. :-P)

The asymmetrical concept of nations having anything to do with managing disease is really starting to stick in my craw.

Just because you've got a border doesn't mean bugger all to whatever causes MS or to disease in the large.

Viral, biotic and genetic agents don't care about those, and neither should we.

That's why I'm reaching out to everybody and anybody with MS.

If they have a different language than the ones I speak, I'm even offering them a microphone and the use of MSBPodcast.com to distribute their content for free.

If they sell any ads, I'm offering them MSBPodcast.com as their statistics, reporting and billing services and sending all money collected right back at them.

There is only one thing about the stats that bothers me. It is reporting some visitors from, say, Luxemburg but it fails to tell me if its, say, two unique visitors or if its the same one twice. (Perhaps NeoWorks.com could make their "Total Visitors By Country" entries into a / number per country that scrolls by.)

---- "Pool " by: "Derek Lassiter" http://dereklassiter.com/

Feed Me! come third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Pool Party" BY: "Kevin Christensen" http://www.moonsounds.com/

Main Topic: What A (Lost) Weekend.

I went, was brilliant, tried not to talk out of turn and kept my nose clean.

I also recorded the entire session with my little Edirol R-09 24bit Wav/MP3 portable recorder.

It is quite sobering to think that, as the recording equipment became all digital, it also became far more confusing to use.

Gone forever are the days of "stick in a cassette, press record, repeat as required."

But the R-09 doesn't come with one of those infernal dongles that chews up 3 spaces on a power bar. Its got an actual real plug at the end of an actual real cable.

---- "Cool Pool Blues" by: "Sara Wendt" http://www.citycanyons.com/wendt/index.html

Main topic, part "deux":

I went to the Canadian embassy in New York and found out that because of the infernal requirement that all foreigners, even landed immigrants, must have passports, (as"Claude Léveillée" sang: "J'pourrais tu avoir vos papiers, si'ous plais?") George Bush's little incursion into places he didn't belong in is making travel much more difficult and it has doubled the amount of time it takes for me to get my passport.

Man borders are a pain in the butt.

I can go where ever I want, but without that paper booklet, I can't get back in the 'States, even with a Green Card.

I feel sick. Maybe its from drinking the "aguamala".

----"Aguamala" by: "Carne Cruda" http://www.carnecruda.com/

outro

"Bum Rush The Charts"

"Bum Rush The Charts"



On, March 22nd, 2007, you can go to the iTunes Music Store, [ http://www.apple.com/itunes/ {download it if you ain't got it yet}] and buy the song "Mine Again" by the group "Black Lab".

Or you can click on the image above and go to the site "Bum Rush The Charts" and go to the official site at www.bumrushthecharts.com [ http://www.bumrushthecharts.com/ ] and participate there.

Just do it!

If you've already got iTunes, you can just click here. (if the link is not working you can select and copy this text into your browser and then hit enter: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=210761472&s=143441&i=210761474 ).

This is your chance to tell the music industry that the internet has enough room for everybody, not just the few bands the music industry gets behind, because they smell money and nothing but money.

And don't get me started about the payola corruption filled radio.

Support "Black Lab", buy their song "Mine Again" and "Bum Rush The Charts".

Here's a sample of their music.

---- "See The Sun " by: "Black Lab" http://www.blacklabworld.com/

msb-0127 The Clapp Heard Round The World.

msb-0127 The Clapp Heard Round The World.

intro

Again with the offers.

"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"

"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."

(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]

---- "Not Responsible" by: "Laura Clapp" http://www.lauraclapp.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

I've had some from the Netherlands.

We're on the verge of getting a Dutch speaking MSer to do some podcasting, in Dutch of course.

I remember walking along the "Zuiderzee", between the rain swept new lands, the Netherlands, "les pays bas" and the cold, rain soaked, gray sky stretching over the cold, rain soaked, gray North sea; staring at the huge earthen dike as the rain slicked road receded into the mists. (It rained a lot when I was there; a lot!)

This 'spreading the MS word' is not happening overnight, but then "Rome wasn't built in a day". (Hmmm... Rome... I wonder if I could get a Italian MSer to podcast? [Taps his teeth with the well chewed barrel of a pen and stares off pensively.])

Maybe you don't care, but I do. (Mouhaha! Its all part of my plot for "vurld domination." First I take Manhattan und zen I take "Berlin" [But der Chermen, zey are being very, very crafty... ] :-)

---- "Chagall le Travail du Peintre Francis Poulenc" by: "Jasper Schweppe" http://www.la-primavera.nl/musici/jasper.htm

Feed forward comes next, so...

There is really nothing that anyone wants me to share with all of you, so get ahead of the curve and share something with them.

It can be anything ... a recipe, a tip or trick, a story or even a joke.

Tell me so I can tell everyone.

We all win when we share of ourselves.

----

Tomorrow is an ultra short, special edition of the podcast: "Bum Rush The Charts."

You're being asked to go to the iTunes [ http://www.apple.com/itunes ] music store, a buy a tune ("Mine Again" by "Black Lab"), support the concept of independent media, propel that tune up the sales chart without big record company support, and "Bum Rush The Charts"

Its only going to cost you $0.99, (almost half is going back to the community because "Black Lab" are contributing half of their take to a scholarship fund.)

You get to tell big media to wake up and get their heads around the fact that their listeners matter, that the artists matter, and that the distribution matters.

----

Meanwhile, there will be no show on Friday as I'm off to a mandatory training session, (as if you could teach this old dog new tricks. :-)

---- "On fait ce quil faut" by: "Senor Azzad" http://www.senorazzad.com/

Feed Me! come third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Universo - Diego Duarte, Francisco São Paulo Zé São Paulo" by: "Ze Sao Paulo" http://zesaopaulo.cals.com.br/

Main Topic: The Clapp Heard Round The World.

Of course, the subject doesn't makes any sense, regardless of weather or not you've read the the topic.

I started putting together this episode which was supposed to be all about Laura Clapp, but I sort of got distracted.

The music got all European and I left my infatuation with Ms. Clapp behind in a labyrinth of remembrance.

I really wish I could get a French MSer to get on board.

---- "Mexico" by: "The King Of France" http://worlds-fair.net/king_of_france/

Main topic, part "deux":

Think I'm kidding about the French?

Guess again, "mes mecs".

I remember reading "Le Petit Simonin" when I was too young to really appreciate it and the very Parisian "Argot" polluted my speech for over a year.

Everyone was either a "gonze" or a "gonzesse"; I was "une lumière"; my buddies were "mes mecs" and we were always trying to keep our "esgourdes"clean around the "toubib" to avoid getting a shot.

Then I discovered "Fernandel" [ http://fernandel.online.fr/ ].

For a good stretch, I became utterly unintelligible to anyone who was not from "Marseille, alors, hein?"

I just loved "la bande dessinée".

• "Tintin" [ http://www.tintin.com/ ] with "Milou" and "le capitaine Haddock" ("mille million de sabords, australopitheque, bashibouzouk..." and on and on,) or
• "Spirou" [ http://www.spirou.com/index.php ] and I loved, loved, loved
• "Modeste et Pompon" by "Franquin", [ http://www.franquin.com/modeste_pompon/index_modeste.php ] (There is one cartoon by Franquin that still cracks me up, years later, whenever I even think about it. [Question: "How do you make a man happy in his dotage?" Answer: "Tell him a joke when he's young." Damned if it isn't true...])

And there are too many others "bande dessinée" to count.

I had a very strange, very multi-cultural, while still unilingual, and terribly onomatopoeic childhood. :-)

That set me up nicely for later learning English by reading comic books.

When my family finally got a TV I was ready for it.

Ted Zeigler [ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0954342/bio ] a.k.a. "Johnny Jellybean" was god and I venerated at the black and white Electrohome altar.

There was no sound effect that Johnny Jellybean could dream up that I was incapable of intoning, and often did, driving my parents utterly up the walls with distraction. :-)

---- "Oh_la_la" by: "Fran Betlyon" http://cdbaby.com/cd/betlyon

outro

msb-0126 Blue Monday

msb-0126 Blue Monday

intro

Again with the offers.

"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"

"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."

(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]

---- "Oap ien de nek" by: "Tunebone" http://tunebone.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

It was a quiet weekend, plus I got out of touch, what with all the cabling and sh-, uh, stuff I had to do this weekend.

My wife's away at her cousin's funeral so I've taken the opportunity to get my butt in gear and on the floor.

I fell once already. Tripped over a chair after trying to get up, and failing. Go figure. (Yeah, I "know" why. Thanks...)

My chest is still a bit sore and the bruise is turning yellow so I'm taking the low road and scooting all over the place to avoid a repeat of that experience. (Whee! I'm dragging my ass all over the floor! :-)

Keep downloading these shows until Thursday. It'll be the 22nd then.

---- "Boomers Boogie" by: "Wang Dang Doodle" http://www.wangdangdoodle.net/

Feed forward comes next, so...

I'm about to get Homer's [ http://mymsjournal.blogspot.com/ ] podcast and that'll be going up soon.

He's had a bit of an MS setback but he should be fine.

I'll let him talk about it if he wants to. :-)

----

I watched "Extreme Make Over: Home Edition" yesterday.

Its always inspirational, even if its a bit of a tear jerker. Of course you know I'm thinking of how MS could be worked in.

---- "Blackbird" by: "Stingray" http://www.stingrayonline.com/

Feed Me! come third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Curse On You " by: "Jen Elliott and Bluestruck" http://audiolunchbox.com/album?a=1639

Main Topic: Blue Monday

Actually no Blue this Monday.

Apple software works flawlessly.

It took longer to do things than I'd originally thought, but that's just me not realizing just how much sh-, uh, stuff I had to copy over. Like hundreds of gigabytes worth.

Not to mention that I was cleaning out the space under my desk, (dust buffaloes and other ick living under my feet,) unhooking "almost" everything (I had to make sure that my wife's PC and my own Linux server had uninterrupted internet access,) moving the printers, scanners microphones, mixers, assorted devices and re-cabling all the friggin' dongles that eat up three plugs each on a power bar.

Also, I had PowerPC architecture stuff before; now I have the new Mac+Intel laptop stuff and some of the updates I had done, I had to do over.

It only takes a moment to realize how funny a picture it makes. A fifty year old man crawling and scooting around on the floor, (I tried standing and squatting and standing and squatting and tripping and knocking a chair over and my chest muscles still hurt,) with "Shark" vacuum cleaner in hand lancing at the diminishing number of dust buffaloes and then dust bunnies and then the place was clean.

So I laid out the new cables, dropped the new equipment in place, turned everything on and it "all worked". (Man, I'm good. :-)

Now I have my old G4 laptop acting as a low-energy-consuming, quiet, file server, providing access to my new 1TB drive, "HolyTera", my old 400GB internet-worked drive, my old 160GB drive, "HRGigger", my DVD burner, my Canon i70 printer, my Brother HL1440 printer, a scanner, as well as various and sundry other devices (including a 5&1/4" diskette which I keep for historical purposes and nostalgia's sake. :-)

My old G5 iMac is definitely not dead but its not doing as much right now. But plans are underway to turn it into a special audio processing station.

My Linux box is unchanged in both form and function.

My wife's PC is unchanged in both form and function (under pain of pain. :-)

---- "Torch" by: "Devon Allman's Honeytribe" http://honeytribe.com/

Main topic, part "deux":

I am extremely fortunate to be such a nerd. I went into computers right after I gave up on the music industry, not music, just the industry, because I saw what a bunch of tone-deaf, unscrupulous thieves they were. (Don't get me started on IP theft and Piracy. The music industry was the worst "Artful Dodger" and "Jaques Lafitte" way before computers or the internet.)

Computers have held no mysteries for me since I started back in the days of minicomputers.

Remember Wang 2200s? Or DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) PDP-11s? I worked on those before there were micros and Windows 1.0 was still years off. (Heck, I even owned an Osborne 1 "luggable" Z80 PC and an Apple ][ ... )

The work's okay if you take the bull by the horn and don't let yourself get bored ... or boring.

----"Poor Mans Physician" by: 'Dean Madonia" http://www.deanmadonia.com/

outro

msb-0125 Kayuda

msb-0125 Kayuda

intro

Again with the offers.

"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"

"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."

Well, when Homer gets on, maybe you'll be more interested. (He can't sound worse than I do. :-)

(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]

---- "Dangerous Things" by: "George Fletcher's Bourbon Renewal" http://www.bourbonrenewal.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

My wife's cousin has just died and she's going to be away this week-end to comfort the widow, her daughter and to attend the funeral. It was not unexpected, he had been ill for a long time, but its still a real bummer.

----

Is there anything worse than waiting for paperwork? I'm stuck here with a boss who's also wondering: "What the [expletive deleted] is taking them so [expletive deleted] long?" I know exactly how he feels and I share both the sentiment and the expletives...

With my luck, it will finally come and I won't be able to attend POD Camp NY [ http://www.podcampnyc.org/ ] because I'll be off in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

That would be too bad because it looks, [ http://www.podcampnyc.org/ ] or make that sounds, it is about podcasting, like its going to be really interesting.

Right now, I'm just about to disconnect every cable in my office and lay out everything all over again because its an absolute cable-strewn mess.

---- "dangerous" by: 'Guardian Mind Mix" http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=119991771

Feed forward comes next, so...

I'm just about ready to put my ad in Inside MS. [ http://www.nationalmssociety.org/insidems.asp ]

The delays are as much about me getting ready for any new listeners as they are about getting the message right, and as they are about the publication time lag between getting an ad prepared and actually getting it into print.

I'm basically an infotainment podcast with a much more immediate reach, like twice or more weekly podcasts, than the six issues yearly that they are running.

I am focused on "coping" with MS, as I do it every day (and as I have been doing for decades [okay, a great deal of that was by getting healthy, getting extremely busy and burying myself in head in the sand with the collusion of the normal media, where things like MS don't ever happen except extremely rarely as a tragic subplot to some minor character, {in fact I can't ever really recall it coming up. IMDB [ http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=ms+OR+Multiple+sclerosis ] shows exactly "one" tv show, and no movies characters, dealing with multiple sclerosis. (There are and have been millions of hours of media produced. You'd think there would be more than "one" show dealing with the subject. But No. We have ONE show: "But You Still Look So Well...: Living with Multiple Sclerosis")}])

Meanwhile I can show that that MS is an international problem.

My stats scroll down my blog [http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ ] and my podcast [ http://www.MSBPodcast.com ] sites every time you go there. I am completely open.

I'd hate to have to find a "dead tree" issue of the "insideMS" magazine anywhere else than in the United States. As of this writing, I have listeners or readers in 65 countries on every continent except Antarctica, (and maybe penguins get some form of MS but they don't have any ISPs.)

And I'm addressing the multi-lingual and multi-cultural issues that this raises by offering my site and even some equipment for others who want to speak in their own languages about living with MS while lifting the spirits of their fellow MSers.

Like the "dead tree" issues of the magazines, the 'casts have persistence, but unlike them, I try to play some interesting music.

---- "Dangerous" by: "Panda and Angel" http://www.jadetree.com/

Feed Me! come third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Dangerous" by: "Pippa Roger" http://www.feelypurr.com/

Main topic: Kayuda

A 'wiki' is a self-organizing data/fact/knowledge base.

At its root is the atomic concept of a node, a single data object (which can be a compound object consisting of embedded text, picture elements, audio or video.)

I just found out about one called Kayuda [ http://www.kayuda.com/ ] while reading one of my favorite web comics: Schlock Mercenary [ http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ ] by Howard Tayler.

It seems to be unusual in that it presents things visually as a network of nodes (fully searchable, as all wikis are) but its only planar. It needs to go through a few evolutions befors they finish with a product.

I've been in touch with them and after a few emails back and forth, I'm pretty sure that they'll end up in the right place because that seems to be where their development road map is taking them.

---- "Dangerous Toy" by: "Quinn" http://www.myspace.com/abandcalledquinn

Main topic, part "deux":

I've been interested in wikis and I have been actively using then for year, ever since I read the book "The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web (Paperback)" by Bo Leuf (Author), Ward Cunningham (Author) back in 1991 or '92, ISBN-13: 978-0201714999.

A wiki is an extremely simple and extremely easy to use front-end to a database of wiki pages the content of which can be, well, anything.

The first wikis were simple things based on the Perl programming language using flat files for storage. They grew to become very sophisticated and to use just about any database engine out there. But they have kept their simplicity even while they spawned things like the wikipedia [ http://wikipedia.org/ ] and other Web2.0 collaborative projects.

I am currently using PHPWiki [ http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ ] on my home server but I am still wondering what else might be out there.

The metaphor has been extended far beyond what Ward Cunningham, the originator of wikis, ever thought of.

I have, well not reviewed but instead, told you about the book Wikinomics, back on msb-0102, msb-0103 and msb-0105.

---- "Dangerous " by: "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

Outro

msb-0124 "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

msb-0124 "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

intro

Again with the offers.

"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"

"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."

Well, when Homer gets on, maybe you'll be more interested. (He can't sound worse than I do. :-)

(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]

---- "Sunflowers and Dust" by: "Sundown Caffeine" http://www.sundowncaffeine.com/

Feedback come first, so...

I wonder if Ms. Askew ever found the MSer that she'd met in New Orleans, way back in "msb-0080 Inherent Sense of Justice", after Katrina. That was a horrible chapter in the history of this country, and its not over yet. People are "still" suffering in that part of the country.

You should contribute on my blog page [ http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ ].

--- "What Does It Mean" by: "Laura Hughes" http://www.myspace.com/laurahughes1

Feed forward come next, so...

This portion of the podcast was so interesting and poses so many questions that it got elevated up to the main topic.

---- "Snow Angel" by: "Laura Hughes" http://www.myspace.com/laurahughes1

Feed Me! come third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Sandpaper Heart" by: "Laura Hughes" http://www.myspace.com/laurahughes1

Main topic: "Quid custodiet ipsos custodes?"

There was a fascinating article [ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11Neurolaw.t.html?ref=science ] in the New York Times [ http://www.nytimes.com/ ] that got me thinking about brain impairment (arising from or in conjunction with nervous system impairment in the case of MS,) and the notion if causality in the law.

Are we really legally responsible for our actions when parts of our brains are impaired by lesions caused by MS?

While I believe we remain responsible for what actions we are still able to take despite our disabilities, there are some actions which are clearly non-volitional, spastic and not of our own intent.

But there is a difference between whatever happens, uh, "lower down", where many lesions occur, with the resulting "noise on the wire", and whatever happens, "higher up", when the effects are less immediate, like knocking things over but they might be more pronounced, like an attitudinal shift in, say, suicide (helping explain a lot of what's going on in the Middle-East,) or, say, in gun control (that's a nice "hot button" topic here in the 'States. :-)

We have all noticed changes in our personalities as we transit through this disease, but how much is our own reaction to the damage inflicted by MS, against how much is "directly caused" by MS, is a matter open to interpretation.

This raises a point in law that is likely to be discussed as MS is found in at least one of the accused in the future through the brain scans that every competent defense lawyer now requests in capital cases.

Basing myself of statistics again, there are thousands of capital crimes committed every year.

In fact, you have a better chance of being a victim of some violent crime than you do of developping MS (just so you don't think I'm just pulling numbers out of my ass, I'm been all over the web slogging through some truly depressing reading in doing research for this bit. [Ah, what I do for you gentle bloggers and listeners.])

But you still have a 0.0833% chance of falling victim of a crime perpetrated by someone with MS.

Criminals are more likely to still be young enough that they would not have been too severely physically affected (and even then, the equalizer effect of a hand gun can easily be used by one who might have already have had a few mild relapsing/remitting episodes) but lesions that are strictly cerebral might still be present.

So I want to ask you: "Should the presence of MS lesions deep within the brain constitute an argument for the defense?"

---- "Full of Grace" by: "Laura Hughes" http://www.myspace.com/laurahughes1

Main Topic, part "deux"

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes," (who watches the watchers) when we ourselves are the only ones capable of watching?

I just love these kinds of metaphysical puzzles.

They force so many twists in the language as we struggle to express them in ways that are unambiguous.

The meta-problems come when we fail to realize exactly what we are talking about.

Its the age old quandary: "You might think that you understand what you heard but I don't think that you realize that what I said was not what I meant."

So what do we do about the sorry state of communications "within our own bodies"?

MS is the state of being wherein the generation of noise is internal and may be spontaneous.

This noise may interfere with our effector nerves, causing spasticity or some form or other, or our perceptor nerves, causing dead spots of sensitive spots and resulting from numbness to pain.

We have to add a third category because it interferes with our higher cognitive functions in ways that are yet to make themselves clear (if anything can ever truly be clear when dealing with subjective mental states.)

---- "Count to 10" by: "Laura Hughes" http://www.myspace.com/laurahughes1

Outro

msb-0123 Froggy goodness

msb-0123 Froggy goodness

Again with the offers.

"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"

"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."

Well, when Homer gets on, maybe you'll be more interested. (He can't sound worse than I do. :-)

(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ])speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]

---- "Froggy Bottom" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/

Feedback come first, so...

I'm emaling back and forth with someone who's got an interesting and refreshing point of view on therapies and might have something to say to all of us. But only "might".

Hey! I can only ask. I can't force or coerce somebody into it.

He feels that he's doing his bit where he is and that's enough for him.

And it should be enough for me too.

---- "Peter The Frog" by: "The Idea" http://?

Feed forward come next, so...

I'm going to go travel for my day job. My wife's already got her passport and her visa, I'm still waiting for my paperwork to happen, but happen it will.

In preparation for this momentous event, (In-di-ah :-) I'm buying a new laptop, but more on that later.:-)

There was an MS event in Manhattan.

Guess who missed it partially because of all the screw ups caused when the powers that be decided to screw with the seasonal time changes?

I had a mini-Y2K right in my own home. Sprint Cell phones are still showing 11:00 but its really 12:00.

Besides, I'm not really into commuting for an hour of more to arrive late, dig into a rubber chicken sandwich for lunch, and then waste an afternoon listening to a whole bunch of bafflegab.

---- "If You Feel Froggy " by: "Freightrain Jones" http://www.soundclick.com/freightrainjones

Feed Me! come third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Frog Hop" by: "Copesetic" http://www.copeseticband.com/

Main topic: Geeky goodness

In preparation for my trip to India I bought a 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 17" Apple MacBookPro with 1680 x 1050 pixel on screen, 2 GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive with ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB SDRAM.

I also bought a 1 TB (terabyte) LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface. (I don't think I have to worry about storage for a good long while. [Now backing up is going to be a pain in the butt.])

Since I'm taking a laptop, a digital camera and I'll have internet access through my employer, I'll be able to record my shows on the road.

Don't expect much conversation though, I'll be busy scaring the heck out of myself and my employer because I'll be learning a new discipline while serving my own agenda, to drag them into the future with something I developed in 1984, wrote about in 1990, and got independent confirmation that it worked when somebody actually used it and wrote about it in 1994.

Google "Rovira Diagrams" if you want to know more about it.

---- "Frogmouth " by: "BIFT" http://ncmeast.com/

Main topic, part "deux"

I would love to be doing shows about the drugs and therapies and interviews with the movers and shakers in MS research and all of that stuff, but that wouldn't be me.

I like indie music, the "PMN (Podsafe Music Network)", "Garage Band and a few other music distribution services. I like the tunes and I like the bands. While they are using me to get their music out there, I am using them to provide some entertainment on a platform for MSers, by MSers, to give us tunes and visibility that is just impossible in a mass media world.

I wish that this venture was making money so that I could hire a reader with a good voice, (my rules about it having to be somebody with MS might even be relaxed since s/he would in effect be reading my words,) and focus on the writing and the business of media in the internet age, spreading MSBPodcast and giving a voice to MSers in all the major language groups.

Besides, I know I sound like crap. (But on the plus side, the is no standard "Radio DJ voice" in podcasting. ["Hey! This wonderful W-SUX, in some ill-defined tri-state area bringing you whatever's next in the rotation, decided weeks ago by some committee of accountants, in some other town, far away, like in another time zone on another hemisphere: 'Clear Channel Communications. Listen, or else.'"] :-)

Like "Dirty Harry" said, just before blowing up a car with a bad boss in it, "A man's got to know his own limitations," and I am acutely aware of mine.

---- "busted frog" by: ".22" http://point22.com/

Outro

msb-0122 What's going on here?

msb-0122 What's going on here?

Intro

"Eh! Les Francophones. L'offre est encore ouverte. Je sais que vous venez a mon site et/ou a mon podcast. Voudrier vous faire des podcast en Francais? Je peut vous aider a en faire si je pourais le distribuer. Envoyez moi un courriel: charles a MSBPodcast.com"

"Sprechen Sie Deutsches? Das Angebot ist noch gut."

---- "Making Me Nervous" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/

Feedback comes first, so...

I've had some from the Netherland and it may come to pass, but the next language to be covered by MSBPodcast may be Dutch, not French or German, (not yet anyway. :-)

Homer is working on getting his podcast in Greek up and running. He's setting it up carefully and building himself a work-flow suited to his own circumstances, lifestyle and equipment.

I'm still waiting on my passport. I'll be able to go to Canada and visit my aging mother (and get back into the 'States. So much for the US and Canada sharing "the longest undefended border on the planet." A Green Card is no longer enough to get back into the country, hence the need for a passport.)

I'm also shortly going to be doing shows "from away" as I gad about the planet for my day job. (Yeah, as I predicted, my career as an object-oriented programmer and project manager did indeed come to an end, but I found something new and I'm loving it. Lets hope it loves me back.)

---- "Biodiesel Willie" by: "2012AM" http://www.2012am.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

Nobody's got back to me with anything to share with you so lets just go on.

---- "Back Into Me by: "2012AM" http://www.2012am.com/

Feed Me! come third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "2012" by: "2012AM" http://www.2012am.com/

Main Topic: What's going on here?

Just so people don't accuse me of having any hidden agenda, I am going to explain what's has been happening and what ideas have been percolating in my head as a result of some feedback and some epiphanies along the way.

The feedback has been extremely good, even when its been extremely negative. Positive feedback is how electrical circuits get destroyed so negative feedback is actually much better for me, and for the show. (I have one person I suspect I will never meet because there would have to be an awkward silence between us. I also have another person I simply don't want to meet because he's a total dick-head and it would be a waste of my time. I only argue when there's a point to it.)

The epiphanies are few but they are "choice".

The first comes from a promotion that came from "Acura" when they were running a promotion with PodShow.

I saw how the broadcast advertising model needed to change to merge with the internet ad model.

It was much better to host an ad on my own server and charge the advertisers when and only when they got "a hit." Since I could segregate ad content, I could measure the number of hits and send them (either to an ad agency or directly to a client,) the bill for guaranteed hits, for a billing period.

I could then also charge a lower CPM (Cost Per Thousand) rate for "reminder ads" on my shows' content for reminding the audience of an ad and providing a link to it.

---- "La Fin Du Monde-Neo Mix" by: "2012AM" http://www.2012am.com/

Main Topic, part "deux":

My second epiphany came later when I suddenly discovered, through the intermediation of the NeoWorks [ http://www.neoworx.net/] applets on my sites, that MS (and by extension all of health care,) was truly an multi-national problem and needed a multi-national, multi-cultural, multi-linguistic approach.

The multi-national coverage was guaranteed by the spread, the depth and the breadth of the internet.

That left the multi-cultural, multi-linguistic coverage problems. I remembered a show I had watched on PBS [ http://www.pbs.org/ ] where they had large multi-national corporations all communicating across national, cultural and linguistic borders by using "English" as a "Lingua-Franca" common lowest denominator and handling specific common languages and culrures locally.

I decided to open up the MSBPodcast.com site to others so that it would act as the common point of congregation, a common site, for podcasts for MSers to address whatever they wanted to "in their own language".

And the advertising model I had built would be able to handle it efficiently and at the lowest cost for the advertisers.

Using the internet to distribute content internationally, but extremely selectively, would enable the kind of laser-sharp focus that was not being handled by any kind of broadcast model where we MSers (0.0833% of the general population) don't even rank up to the level of "statistical noise." (5% of the general population.)

Because my focus is MS and MSers, and we can have shows on anything MSers want to talk about, in any language they choose, in any language they speak, and provide them with a rallying point to put their shows out there, and incidentally, should any advertisers choose that language, they would be able to.

That leaves the problem of laser like focus on the geographic distribution for specific events, like a given city's race for MS, walk for MS, read-a-thon for MS, whatever, or a given city's conferences for which reminder ads for which can be selectively distributed by Kiptronics as appends to the shows, with links to the specific ads on my site if required.

---- "Sick as a Dog" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/

Like my promo by "Don Lafontaine" said:

"In a world where disability strikes 10 per cent of the population,
only one man has the guts to take on the powers that be,
and raise his voice in a challenge to media demagoguery
and the tyranny of the mass market.

That man is Charles Rovira and he can be heard at MSBPodcast.com."

Outro

msb-0121 Ease and Chinese

msb-0121 Ease and Chinese

intro

"Parlez vous Français? L'offre est encore bonne."

"Sprechen Sie Deutsches? Das Angebot ist noch gut."

I'm seeing if someone from the Netherlands might be interested.

He needs a mike and the wire to express himself. He has a great and expressive style that I think would be of interest to the other Dutch speakers with MS.

The offer I have made to Homer, a Greek soon-to-be podcaster, and that I am making to the French and German speaking people is open to you too.

And for you people I noticed coming to my sites from computers inside of China; do you speak Mandarin? Do you want your own shows?

I wish I could speak and understand Chinese even a little bit. (I also wish my freakin' computer could display the text as more than a series little square boxes! Unicode my ass.)

Feel free to take advantage of my offer for a USB microphone if you need one and distribution of your content on living with MS on MSBPodcast.com.

Drop me an email: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Make Me Understand" by: "Matt Thorp" http://www.onlinerock.com/musicians/mattthorpe/

Feedback come first, so...

I really don't have any. Its been an extremely quiet few days here at "Chaos Manor".

Strike that, but I'm not able to talk about it yet.

Remember what I was talking about in "msb-0118 Apophis" about everything getting tied up in red tape and budget cuts.

Well, today /. [ http://slashdot.org] had a thread [ http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/06/1358228 ] about an article [ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17473059/ ] that said that the asteroid Apophis could be coming straight for us but Nasa's not going to do bugger all about it because it would cost too much, like a billion dollars over 10 years. (Okay ... We've spent 360 billion dollars in Iraq so far since 2003 and if that was supposed to make me feel safe, it hasn't. It really hasn't. It would be a Phyrric victory, but I'd almost hope an Apophis-class asteroid smacks Washington right in some GAO goofball's back pocket. )

---- "Dont Need to Understand" by: "Steve Parsons" http://www.steveparsons.net/

Feed forward comes second, so...

In case you're wondering, I'm not an expert on scripts and writing, but I've learned from one.

My primary reference on scripts is "A History of Writing" by "Albertine Gaur" ISBN-13: 978-0684184227.

This is a wonderful book about the history of writing by an extremely engaging author.
I've been in love with this book since 1997 (though my edition of the book actually ates from 1992,) because it is fairly exhaustive and complete without descending into turgid prose.

It covers:

• the origins and development of writing,
• the main groups; their characteristics, history and development,
• the deciphrement,
• the social attitudes towards writing and literacy,
• moves towards the future,
• a select bibliography,
• a dictionary of scripts and
• a short but fairly thorough index.

If you're in the least interested, this is a great book.

---- "Long Ways From Understanding" by: "Eric Burrows" http://myspace.com/theacousticcomp

Feed Me! come third, so...

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Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

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---- "I Cant Understand You Baby" by: "Byther Smith" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Main topic: Ease and Chinese (in the same sentence yet.)

Chinese must be easy to learn.

They have taught it to over a billion children, right now. (Okay most of them are now children of a certain age, but that does not detract from the fact that they were all children when they learned it. :- )

So why does it seem so difficult for me to learn it now.

It requires an entirely different way to read, top-to-bottom and right-to-left, but that's not hard (and being able to read upside down once saved my butt [no, I won't go into the whole sordid debacle but I resigned from a position the instant, the second, I read a notice about who was supposed to become my new "boss" on the desk of the VP of finance where I was working. He was a vendor who was being trapped into the position and he fired "everybody" the following Monday. I didn't feel like waiting around and having that bit of unpleasantness on my work history.] Literally I switched subjects mid sentence, made my farewells, and walked through a cloud of water vapor on the way out. [And you will never hear why I still get a wicked grin on my lips when I think about that, years later.])

I suspect that the main difficulty come from having to learn the 600 or so basic script elements (compare that to the relatively few twenty to thirty letters of scripts that are phonetically based,) and the rules for combining these signs along with symbolic pictures, symbolic compounds, signs that have come into being from deflection and reflection and sound signs (the part that can be considered equivalent to our concept of an alphabet.)

But what makes it to hard to learn also makes for stunningly beautiful calligraphy.

---- "No One Understands" by: "berman" http://www.randomgong.com/berman

Main topic, part "deux":

SVO VSO VOS SOV OSV OVS.

What the heck am I talking about?

Subject, Verb, Object. S, V, O.

These are all the ways a complete well-formed sentence can be constructed regardless of which script people use.

Different peoples, different nationalities, different ethnic groups, construct sentences according to different lights at different times, taking poetic license with word order, sometimes not having one part of speech or another because they were judged unnecessary, sometimes using word absence or presence to indicate verb tenses.

Homo sapiens sapiens has proved itself extremely inventive at attempting expressions to represent some deep contextually dependent meme. They usually get it more right than wrong but when they get it wrong, they often go to hell in a freakin' hand basket usually over something as insignificant as a misplaced comma.

They're usually vociferous, vituperative, vulgar, when they're not down right violent.

That's why I'm trying to get as many people to do these podcasts in as many languages as possible.

We have a common problem, MS, and it exists without words, "sans paroles"; below whatever words we care to choose, whatever words we care to use.

Now do you "get it?"

---- "Understand " by: "Andy Stone" http://www.myspace.com/andystonerolls

Outro.