Today’s show is going out on all the audio feeds. It’s sort of an announcement.

After 18 years of employment with a company, I have become self-employed. It’s going to take me a month or so to get ramped up and ready for a full load of business but I’ve never felt more ready then I do right now. 2 days ago, I didn’t think I was ready but the hand of God slapped me up side the head and said ” Dummy, you are going the wrong way. Here, go this way”

Anyway, Catch me later!

-Mike

Treat me kindly, my beloved master, for no heart in all the world is more grateful for kindness than the loving heart of me.

Do not break my spirit with a stick, for though I should lick your hand between the blows, your patience and understanding will more quickly teach me the things you would have me do.

Speak to me often, for your voice is the world’s sweetest music, as you must know by the fierce wagging of my tail when your footstep falls upon my waiting ear.

When it is cold and wet, please take me inside… for I am now a domesticated animal, no longer used to bitter elements… and I ask no greater glory than the privilege of sitting at your feet beside the hearth… though had you no home, I would rather follow you through ice and snow than rest upon the softest pillow in the warmest home in all the land… for you are my god… and I am your devoted worshiper.

Keep my pan filled with fresh water, for although I should not reproach you were it dry, I cannot tell you when I suffer thirst.

Feed me clean food, that I may stay well, to romp and play and do your bidding, to walk by your side, and stand ready, willing and able to protect you with my life, should your life be in danger.

And, beloved master, should the Great Master see fit to deprive me of my health or sight, do not turn me away from you. Rather hold me gently in your arms as skilled hands grant me the merciful boon of eternal rest…and I will leave you knowing with the last breath I drew, my fate was ever safest in your hands.

–Beth Norman Harris

http://www.tlcpoodles.com/prayer.html

RIP Comet

Well really, I got home on Sunday.

The trip started in Traverse City a week ago (Tuesday 1 June). I few out of TVC Airport to Chicago, Then Chicago to Dallas and Dallas to McAllen, Texas. I spent the Night in Donna Texas at my In-Laws house. On Wednesday we loaded up the Motorhome and headed for Grand Haven Michigan.

We made it about 150 miles and blew a tire. After waiting in the 90 degree heat for 2 hours, AAA came and fixed the tire and we were on our way.

We made it to Mount Pleasant Texas. The next day we made it to Sikeston, Mo with no other problems. On Friday, we drove to Terre Haute, IN for a short visit with my Mother-in-law’s Sister. and made it back to Grand Haven by 8pm. (a long day!)

Once we got to Grand Haven, My wife picked me up at her folks place and we stayed in town at a friend’s place until Sunday morning.

It was a very long and hard week due to a lot of other factors but all in all it went well and I’m glad I could help.

It’s taken me a couple of days to get back to almost normal.

I do know one thing… It’s much nicer up here in the woods at 60 degrees then it is almost anywhere else at 90 degrees.

Thanks for following along and I will have more to say about the trip and things I noticed along the way, in Mike Dell’s World #161 which I will record this week.

Have Fun!
-Mike

What’s Up With That? #57 With Jim Farley

Catching up after almost 9 months off from doing WUWT podcasts ( www.whatsuppodcast.com )

Jim and I catch up on what has been going on over the last 9 months and just generally chat. It was lots of fun!

We played a song from Michael on Fire called “I’ll make a drum”

We played a song from Darrel Scott called “Title of the song”

We played “Wasted” by our friend (and local Traverse City area guy) Kevin Reeves

Hope you enjoy our chat. It was LOTS OF FUN!

Catch Jim Farley over at the Musical World Podcast – www.musicalworld.us

As you know, I’ve been doing 3 podcasts regularly for some time. Maybe not as regular as I should. I’ve been looking at my real-world schedule and came to a couple of conclusions.

So the plan I’ve come up with is as follows:

Monday – Geek of the North recording to release on Monday night
Tuesday – No podcasting
Wednesday – Aviation History this week Recording to release on the following Monday
Thursday – No podcasting
Friday – Geek of the North Recording to release on Friday
Saturday – No podcasting
Sunday – MDW recording (unless I make an unscheduled episode) for release Monday

The Unplugged feed and the Ipadio feed will be updated as the mood strikes and What’s up with that might happen once in a while.

I’m really wanting to take my podcasting to the next level and try to grow audience and community. Geek of the North and Aviation History this week are going to be my more “professional” podcasts. Mike Dell’s World will continue to be my Hobby podcast.

I’ve also started a newsletter for Geek of the North. It’s an announce only mailing list and I will only post 2 times a week with the shownotes and other information about the podcast. Join the list here: Newsletter

-Mike

• Airshift almost over, heading home from the radio station soon #
• One more hour of the folk aire show live on http://www.wnmc.org #
• Live on http://www.wnmc.org or 90.7fm in Traverse City with the Folk Aire show. 7pm – 9pm edt #
• RT @blubrry We updated our Subscribe Sidebar plugin on Friday. A few great changes were made. http://bit.ly/iGEPP Credit @angelomandato #
• Ooops forgot to tag my last post.. Happy Towel Day (for 2.5 more minutes) #towelday #
• Happy Towel day! (Now ending) http://tinyurl.com/qeq6z I missed it. I guess a paper towel won't work. Bummer Thanks @wb8rcr #
• Sitting at Sheldes with all podcast and yard work done for the week. #
• Doing show prep for TPN Weekly #7 … TPN Weekly #6 will be out tonight at http://www.techpodcasts.com #
• Just took my 76th mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/5707 #
• Awake and drinking first cup of coffee. Getting studio ready for a recording session this afternoon. Lots of podcasting goodness! #

• Yard work done for the day.. Now relaxing in the easy chair b4 going to dinner with friends at 6pm. #
• Home for rent Near Traverse City ( Lake Ann ). http://bit.ly/2ouGO Maybe putting it on the Market to sell also. #
• The website is back up and running (or my access to it is) OpenDNS had a Hickup I suppose. #
• Can anyone tell me if my website is down? http://www.mikedell.com I can’t get to it from here… Is Godaddy down?? #
• Due to a lull in the action at work, I’m at inbox zero (for the time being!) #
• Arrived at work. I will be working on American Bonanza Magazine tonight. #
• Im at Dr Z’s for a bone crushing. #
• RT @geeknews RawVoice remains Profitable and Seeing Significant growth in first five months of 2009 http://www.blogurl.net/73922/ #
• For those interested , My profile pic was taken at the NBC Studio for Jay Leno. Here is the original on Flickr http://bit.ly/7wT9i #
• The first day back from vacation is the second worse thing about taking one. I’m just about done with it for today. #
• I changed my profile photo. Can anyone guess where/when this was taken? #
• Having a really laid back Monday. Ordered Pizza. Working on my wordpress stuff I learned at WordCamp Columbus #wccbus #
• Just took my 75th mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/5707 #
• Just took my 74th mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/5707 #

• I love my alltel Blackberry tethering plan.. Down here I have 3g speeds! #
• Cable TV and internet is out at the hotel and they say 8am it will be working.. Oh well, NBC comes in on the TV and I have my Blackberry #
• Wordcamp Columbus is over. Back at the room for some rest before the “after party” once I know where it is #
• Enjoying keynote at Wordcamp Cloumbus. #wccbus #
• This is nerdvana today. Good coffe here. All good geeks run on cofee #wordcampcolumbus #
• Just took my 73rd mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/5707 #
• Made it to wordcamp. #
• 12seconds – In Columbus Ohio for the Wordcamp http://tiny12.tv/D582F #
• I made it to Columbus Ohio for Wordcamp Columbus in the morning. Looking forward to learning something about wordpress that I didn’t know #
• Just took my 72nd mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/5707 #
• Taking a break from the freeway.. Just a bit north of Dayton Ohio along I-75 #
• Making good progress. Just north of Ann Arbor. #
• On I-75 heading for Dayton Ohio. Track me at http://www.mikedell.com #
• This is the longest work night of the year. The night before vacation. #
• Lucky, I’m only going for a very short time this year. But I am going to Wordcamp Columbus on Saturday. Looking forward to the trip! #
• Looking at the Dayton Forecast, Hamvention is going to be wet this year (again) #
• On live for another hour on http://www.wnmc.org and 90.7 fm in Traverse City Michigan – Folk and Bluegrass Music #
• Live on WNMC 90.7 FM in Traverse City till 9pm – Listen on the interwebs at http://www.wnmc.org #
• Catching up on my paperwork (digitally) for my side-jobs. Maybe do a Mike Dell’s World later this morning. #
• Composing a 22,000 page PDF for Variable Data printing. This will take a while #
• Any beginning banjo players out there? I’m getting back into banjo after a year or so off from lessons. Contact me http://www.mikedell.com #
• Heading to bed. Have to work tonight at 11:30. Looking forward to next week.. Going to Dayton Hamvention and Wordcamp Columbus. #
• Off to see my Mom, Grandmothers, aunts and sister. Brunch awaits! #
• Good morning and Happy Mother’s day to everyone that it applies to! #

• Getting ready to help a podcaster come to blubrry.com #
• Having a lazy saturday so far. Raining here in Traverse City. #
• What’s Up With that Podcast is “in the can” Should be out sometime today or tonight. #
• I have Windows , Linux and Mac going on the same desk this morning.. How geeky is that? #
• Don’t call me. I’m sleeping. #
• My first post from Windows 7 RC1 – I will give it this, it’s faster. Otherwise, so far, it’s just windows. Like it or not. #
• Jazz can make you sleepy.. I’m going to sneak some banjo music in on this Jazz show! #
• On the Radio again this morning. Live on http://www.wnmc.org playing morning Jazz till 11am edt. #
• “So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.” ~The Eagles #
• I’m now only 12 hours away from finishing “hell day” It started at 4:30pm and will last till 11am – Lots of hours doing lots of things. #
• Alison Brown rocks on a Banjo! Google Alison Brown. I think she is as good as Bela Fleck! Playing her now on the radio show. #
• Live now on http://www.wnmc.org or 90.7 FM in Traverse City #
• Going live with folk and bluegrass on WNMC 90.7fm and http://www.wnmc.org starting at the top og the hour (7pm edt) #
• Back at work feeling a bit better then I did this morning. Still have lots of crap going on but it’s easing up a bit. #
• off to bed for me. Have a good day everybody ! #
• I learned today that dogs are only slightly less able to understand what is good for them then teenagers. #
• Back at work. Lots of work to do. My personal economy seems to be perking along. #
• Spring is here: http://bit.ly/YznSC #
• Time for my nap.. Lot’s of variable data jobs to output tonight at work. It’s too nice here to go to bed Traverse City Rocks! #
• Awake, Dog has been outside, Coffee is brewing. Going to do some Blubrry.com work this morning. #

• Why is it that nobody understands simple instructions????? #
• Just took my 71st mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/5707 #
• What a crappy week.. At least Friday night has been good, but I’ve only got 10 hours of sleep in 3 days.. It’s bedtime for me soon. #
• At last. The dog is home. He’s a bit cranky but still among the living. #
• Dog homecoming delayed now till this afternoon. The Vet is still in surgery with another dog. I’m getting a nap for a while. #
• Still waiting for the dog. Vet had a sugery to do. Supposed to call when she’s done. #
• At the vets office waiting to pick up KC for the ride home. He’s doing great (all things concidered) #
• Dog Update – KC will be out of the Vet hospital this morning at a 3 legged dog (for a month) while his hip heals. (some sort of sling) #
• Not feeling like working but work I must… at least it’s “My” Friday #
• Xastir APRS running now on the print / file server at home. Working good so far – N7LMJ near Traverse City if you look it up. #
• After a partial hip replacement, the dog will be home in the morning. What a “trying” day! #
• KC the dog is in Surgery to put the hip back in the socket after his run-in with the Van this morning. I’m just happy he’s going to be OK. #
• Update: The dog has a dislocated hip. They are going to put him out and fix it. A relief in one way, but it’s going to hurt the wallet. #
• How is it that I love Macs, yet I use a blackberry, see nothing wrong with Vista, and am really liking Ubuntu’s latest? #
• Geeky stuff helps me not to worry. #
• to keep my mind off the dog, I’m installing Ubuntu on my print/file server soon to be APRS iGate #
• My dog got hit by a van this morning – He’s doing ok.. May have a hip out of joint.. waiting for the vet to call. THIS SUCKS! #
• Time to go to work I need a vacation ! #
• Why do people sound disappointed when the stock market goes up. Sometimes it just does that. #
• Why is it the news never sensationalize the dow recovering 27% in the last 7 weeks but we don’t hear the end of the Flu thing. #
• Got my APRS stations on the air today. N7LMJ for home and N7LMJ-9 for car. If you know what APRS is that is useful info. If not, Oh well #
• I’m live on WNMC.org if you would like to listen – http://www.wnmc.org and click “listen live” #
• Ustream died on me. Must be @matthewebel ‘s concert is taking all the bandwidth.. #
• Broadcasting live now! See me at http://tinyurl.com/4rokas #
• I’m getting sick of the “if it bleeds it leads” mentality by the professional media (not calling main stream anymore because it’s not) #
• The professional media said the stock was going to dive because of the swine flu. SO far they are wrong.. We will see by the end of day #
• Broadcasting live now! See me at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mike-dells-world #
• Composing a 10,000 page PDF for variable data printing. #
• Today is the birthday of Samuel Morse (the inventor of the code) – - … …- – -.. -. – -… . – .. – - . – - – #
• Like my new picture (on twitter if you are reading this elsewhere) ? #
• flying fords are always fun to watch.. #
• Easy chair that is. #
• Finally in the esay chair watching the end of the race. Then off to bed. Work tonight #
• got the teenager’s computer setup on Ubuntu . This could be fun for support #
• Even have adobe air and tweetdeck installed and working now! #
• Awake and playing with Ubuntu again. 9.04 was almost idiot proof to install and now everything works! Sound, in and out being the big one! #

Take a look at what we woke up to this morning. It’s SPRING… What part of spring doesn’t mother nature understand. Luckily, it’s warming up and all this crap should melt before the end of the day. I hate it when the weather plays with our emotions. After such a long and hard winter, just seeing this white stuff makes you have a bad mood day.

I guess we are just paying for our 70 degree day that we had last week.

Keep the faith!

-Mike

Here it is March 9th and we have had a 50 degree day only 3 days ago and we have a snow storm. This is the early spring type snow. Not the nice fluffy stuff we get in January or February. I went to bed at 3pm Sunday and it was just starting to snow. I wake up at 11pm to go to work at Midnight (like I do every Sunday) and I had no idea we were going to get. I look out the window and see about 8 inches of snow on the Cadillac (which won’t fit in the garage). Damm, More snow! Once I got my car out of the garage I realized that I was going to have some trouble. There was about a foot of new, wet, heavy snow on top of glare ice that was in the driveway before the snow happened. I ended up getting out of the driveway just barley. The roads were not plowed yet and I was dragging bottom the whole way to work.

I guess I’m OVERLY ready for spring!

At least it’s not bone-chillingly cold.. It’s 28 degrees right now and is supposed to be in the 40’s on Monday.. Can anyone say Slush Puppy! What a mess!

-Mike (Depressed)

Don’t know why, but I’m in a really crappy mood today! I would love to rant but I can’t think of anything worthy of ranting about. I have too many people in my life that don’t understand plain English and no matter how I spell things out they still have stupid questions. YES THERE ARE STUPID QUESTIONS. Oh well.. I guess I will get over it. Have a nice day! Dammit!!

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

MDW 96

Fall is falling around here. The leaves are turning colors and the air is a bit cool. Been wet and rainy the last couple of days.

Autumn Girl – by Snowball Johnny

Personal stuff
Fall Sugar Island Trip
Run/walk program – Runner’s World 5k in 8 week plan
Next Goal = Getting healthy to get my CDL
Life with a 14 year old
House in Lake Ann is Rented!

Island – by CJ Kueger

Politics
Bailout plan fails
Stock market down (for now)
Don’t panic! – Read the blog post here.
McCain and/or Obama are not going to fix your life

Relax your mind – by Molly and Sunny Boy

Closing
- Time management – Busy now, Looking forward to winter slowdown
- need to setup my studio better

Autumn Leaves by Jack Jezzro

All Music on today’s show is from The Podsafe Music Network at Music.podshow.com

Excuse me if this seems too direct, but someone has to say it.

I don’t want the Forward that you think is so funny. I spend a few minutes a day weeding though all the jokes that people send me. Some are funny, most are not. I get upwards of 200 messages a day and it takes a lot of time going though the spam and adding jokes to that doesn’t help.

I think it’s rude to bombard people with jokes instead of a well thought out “letter” of a personal nature. Besides, Most likely, I’ve seen it before. Sorry, but most of the jokes going around on email have a life of their own and have been going around and around for years! Same with that funny video, photo, PowerPoint, or whatever. If it is something new, and you want me to see it. Post it someplace (see below) and send me a link.

Don’t send me the chain letters and virus warnings. No, Bill Gates is not going to send money to someone just because this email goes to 1000′s of people. It doesn’t mean I don’t like you if you send me a stupid chain letter about friendship and I don’t send it back to you. I just don’t do that. The virus you heard about via some sort of forwarded email is likely from last century or non-existent. I can take care of my own security just fine thank you. If you get something like that, please go to snopes.com and check it out before you send it to others. Please don’t send it to me either way. If something says “Send this to everyone in your address book” Please, just delete it.

IF you still MUST email me something that was forwarded to you, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE clean it up. Cut and paste is your friend! Cut the funny/important forwarded message into a new message and write something personal to show that it really did come from you. If I see “Fwd: Fwd: Fwd:” in the subject line, it gets deleted. No questions asked. I don’t want to have to work so hard to figure out what you sent me. Also, if you just hit forward on these messages, you are exposing everyone in the chain’s email addresses (also rude). Also forwarding to a bunch of people in the “to” box or the “CC” box exposes all those email addresses. Please use the “bcc” which stands for Blind Copy.

With all the free services out there, you can share all the stuff you would be sending out in email without bombing someone with a large attachment. Also, know this about me, I don’t care how cool you think that big attachment is, I don’t see it. PERIOD. Don’t ask me about it, don’t be mad, I just don’t look at things like that.

A better way of doing that is to use the free services available in this new Web 2.0 space. They are easy to use and as a bonus, the people you send the link to (instead of the video, photo or whatever) do not have to have special software to use it. I know that most people have high speed internet now. But, some of us (like me) don’t have high speed all the time. In my case, I use my BlackBerry handheld as my email when I’m away from a computer. At other times I use it as my access. It connects to the network at 1xRT speed (about double dial up) most of the time. Sometimes it’s faster but it’s still not fast enough to download that BIG video you have. It will, however, do just fine downloading your link. When I do get to a high speed connection, I might just look at it.

Here is a list of free stuff that will help you distribute your “stuff”.

Blogs:

Podcasts:

Videos:

Photos:

Websites:

Just to be clear, I didn’t write this to piss you off. I just want people to think a little about the person on the other end of that email. I don’t like you any less if you do send me something every once in a while. I’m just trying to help. Really I am

-Mike

Do you ever have that feeling that something is about to go very wrong? I’m having one of those days today. I can’t put my finger on it, but I’ve just got a feeling that something isn’t quite right. Not sure what it is. I’m thinking that it might be lack of sleep. I worked last night with a 3 hour nap instead of my normal 7-8 hours of sleep. I’m hoping it’s nothing. It likely is nothing.

OH well, All “seems” ok so far. I will report back later.

Check out Strange Today at www.strangetoday.com I did manage to get a show out this morning in my overly worried state.

Off to bed for me!

UPDATE: After a good sleep, I feel much better now!

-Mike