Just a quick update from my lunch hour at work. We are going camping this weekend over at the KOA in Gaylord Michigan.

I’m going to try to work on some video editing while there depending on whats going on. I’m going to do another episode of “So, You Want To Podcast?” in the morning when I get home. Check that out over at sywtp.com

Catch me LATER!

-Mike

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Today I talk about Android Apps.

Will be starting a video podcast version of this podcast this fall so stay tuned! (need to clean up and rewire the studio before I want to put it on video )

Catch me LATER!

-Mike

Seaplane mishap and 2 other plane crashes around here. Is it the Grand Traverse Bay Triangle? I play a few tunes from the Podsafe Music Network at Podcastalley.com and one from Lenny Kravitz (fly away) which has been stuck in my head for the last few days.

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I also talk about the Sugar Island Music fest, My Aunt and Uncle’s 50th wedding anniversary party, My Father-in-law’s 80th birthday.

I played a song from the FUMP (funny music project) called “Twitter”. I also talk about my twitter, facebook, buzz and blog setup.

I review a couple of Android Apps for Ham Radio. APRSDroid and Echolink for Android.

Until next time, Catch Me later!!

-Mike

A new Mike Dell’s World will be out this morning later.

A new Geek of the North is in the works along with another “So, you want to Podcast?”

Check out the all inclusive feed at mikedell.com/feed/all for everything I do in podcasting.

Catch me later!

-Mike

I will, at some point, add back episodes to the feed but right now it’s just everything I’m doing from here on out.

Just an easier way for you to subscribe to everything I do in the podcasting space.

To subscribe, cut in paste this into your podcatcher of choice: http://mikedell.com/feed/all

Enjoy!
Catch me later!
-Mike

This is about 20 miles east of me. It was planted in an old potato field in 1986 out of pine trees in honor of Michigan’s Sesquicentennial (150th birthday) . Each digit is about an acre in size and is on state land.

There is another one of these in the UP (Upper Peninsula) near Guinn that only shows up when the fall leaves change because it was planted in hardwoods using pine trees.

Cool eh?

-Mike

I talk a lot about Blubrry.com and podcasting in general

Also talk about Kathy’s bug bite and a bunch of other stuff.. NO music today.

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I talk about podcasting from Android using HiFiCorder – a VERY good recorder app for android ( Listen to the very end of this podcast for a sample)

Going to Sugar Island this weekend. Watch the Video feed for more from the Island next week!

Catch me later!

It should sound better then my iPadio phone casts. I will use this instead.

It’s a bit more work but I think it’s worth it.

Catch me later!
-Mike

This weekend Kathy and I are heading north to the Sugar Island Music
fest. While I’m up there, all I have is my phone for internet (if that
much) so you will likely not hear much from me. This morning
(Wednesday) I have to meet my Niece in Ludington Michigan to give her
a Laptop for my Mother-in-law, a Cell Phone for her husband and her
birthday gift. I plan on podcasting on the drive. So look for a
brand new Mike Dell’s World and/or Mike Dell Unplugged podcast (maybe
both) today.

I got a new voice recorder app for my Droid which I will try out for
the Unplugged feed and see how that works.

Catch me later!
-Mike

See you Next Week!

-Mike

Or listen here:

We are heading out camping tonight for the weekend. Looking forward to some quiet time!

Catch Me Later!

-Mike

I guess I am hooked

I found this out when I exported the podcast subscriptions from my Droid phone (Google Listen / Google Reader) and imported them to itunes (Which took me a while to figure out how). I’m switching back from my phone to my ipod for a podcast catcher. Not because the phone doesn’t work well, it’s only because I want to be able to use my phone for other things while I’m driving or working. I have the 30gig iPod video ( Just like the classic with a smaller hard drive) and that will be plenty to hold what I do listen to. This way I can have podcasts going and answer the phone without screwing up my podcast listening. I will keep things the way they are on the phone also (Bonus downloads!) for when I am out in the middle of noplace and wan to listen to the latest “whatever” podcast. I will be able to download it to the phone and listen in Google Listen.

I look forward to getting re-acquainted with my long lost ipod

Catch me later!

-Mike

PS. Likely I will be doing audio updates this weekend as I will be camping. The iPadio app on my phone works great for that sort of thing.

Okay,I’m going to the try this using the voice to text thing on my android phone. It seems to work but it only does 1 sentence at a time. This is better for doing text messages instead a blog entries. I also had to do a little bit correcting but it is a little bit faster then hand typing.

I hope everybody’s having a great day or night or evening for the case may be.

Catch me later!

-Mike

This morning, I took my plow blade off my 1973 John Deere Tractor in hopes of putting on the mower deck that hasn’t been installed in over 10 years. I thought I had all the parts but found out that I had the mounting hardware and the belt, but couldn’t figure out how the mower would be lifted up and down. I called my dad (who I got the tractor from) and he said there was some “hooky things” that connected to “something” under the tractor. Well, I don’t have any hooky things. So he said he will search around and see if he can find them. No biggie. I don’t need the tractor to mow my lawn. I just wanted to get the deck on there because it would take my mowing time down from 1.5 hours to .75 hours if I did use it. (not that big of a time saver)

I also found out that itunes can really suck if you setup your podcast the wrong way and then later, you want to change it. I found that out by working with a client for 2 hours via Skype to London, England and only getting a little ways along fixing the problem. I’m sure in time I will get it all worked out but Apple’s itunes podcast listing moves at the speed molasses in winter. The good news it the podcast in question is working from it’s wordpress feed and it’s blubrry listing is ok. It’s just itunes that is messed up. That is why I started the “So, you want to podcast” podcast. So people will get a proper start in podcasting so that later, I don’t have to solve the strange problems later.

As you can see, I don’t think this is going to be a “Daily” blog, but it will be as close as I can get.

I am heading to bed as it’s around noon and that is my Midnight working the overnight shift that I do. The plan is (barring any more over seas podcast support issues) to do an episode of “So, you want to podcast” and “Mike Dell’s World“. A twofer podcast day!

More when I can carve out the time!
-Mike

I got out of bed around 7am which is early for me on Saturday. Kathy had to work today so I had most of the day to myself to get things done and to goof off.

Yesterday I went and got the camper and got new tires put on it. (I’m sure the tires on it were from the 80′s sometime) Today was the day to get the camper ready to go for a campout we are doing next weekend in the local area. I got the battery off from it and put it on the charger and put up the TV antenna to see if I can get that to work right with the new 22” flat Screen HD TV we will have in there (roughing it huh?). I didn’t have much luck with the antenna but I did find the problem. I went to radio shack and get some new coax and will re-wire the thing on Sunday.

I also got the lawn mowed put down more seed (in more of the blank spots) and watered the lawn and the plants.

I then took to working inside. On my trip to radio shack (What a mess that place was!) I picked up a set of cheap PC Speakers for my Ubuntu machine. I have this ubuntu machine as sort of a server in the house. I use it as a print server and I also use it as an Xastir APRS iGate. What’s that you say? APRS is Automatic Position Reporting System. It’s something we use in ham radio where some of us have a GPS hooked to a radio and the APRS software or firmware transmits our position every 2 min. or so. and an iGate is a fixed station hooked to the internet so that your position reports can be seen online (see APRS.fi or “track me” at the top of this page). My iGate runs 24/7 and any APRS station within radio shot are retransmitted both on RF and to the internet. The speakers are for a feature in Xastir (the software I use for the igate) which reads out the callsign of the station and how far they are from you when one comes into range. It’s real geeky but it is interesting to “hear” who’s driving though.

It also lets me know when someone has downloaded and configured iAPRS (an iphone app). The developer of the app decided that the default location would be 100 yards up the road from my house. So whenever someone signs on for the first time, they show up here. Now my ubuntu machine will call out the callsigns from all over the world as they sign on to iAPRS for the first time.

More on Sunday!

-Mike

So, here is my attempt to do just that. An online acquaintance of mine (Phil Madsen) does something that I’m going to copy. He does a daily blog where he starts his posts with “I learned today… “. Well, that’s what I’m doing. I’m starting a category on Mike Dell’s World called “Learned Today” and will attempt to put something on there every day. Even if it’s just a short blip from my phone or a Mike Dell Unplugged audio blog update.

So, today I learned that I have no idea how to setup a Compressor, Limiter, gate and audio expander box. I’ve messed with it over and over again and every time it just doesn’t sound right. If you are a listener of Mike Dell’s World podcast, you will hear that it doesn’t sound like it should. I’m working on it. I think it was better yesterday but still not good. I spend a lot of time navel gazing about podcasting and my audio and keep coming to the same conclusion. I’m never happy with my audio. What I need to do is find a setting that sounds good and then quit messing with it! I also need to quit worrying about it. So, I will try.

I also learned today that I’ve almost quit using ham radio. It’s not something I’ve tried to do, but over the last few years, I’m using it less and less. I get on the HF bands on Sunday mornings (most weeks) to talk to friends who gather for the IOOK net (IOOK = International Order Of Krazies) and I still use APRS in my car and from home to keep track of other APRS users around the world. I don’t get on 2m or 440mhz much anymore. Like I said, there isn’t really a reason for this other then I’m busy with other things when I’m driving and I have almost no time at home to just rag chew. Besides, I’m VERY connected these days with Skype, Chat, Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, email and every thing else that is on my droid phone, laptop and desktop. Ham Radio is kind of old school in most cases. I still enjoy it, but it’s not the major part of my life that it once was.

Check back Saturday for another update.

-Mike

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I played music from: Gangstagrass, Big money Grip and Jimmie Bratcher

I talked about the passing of Capt. Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie, an Alaskan Crab boat from the Discovery Show “the Deadliest Catch” and I play a tribute to Phil by Mike Rowe.

Not much else going on around here.

I started another podcast (Oh yeah, Like I need that) called “So, You Want To Podcast?” over at so-you-want-to-podcast.com (a real crappy domain name huh?) or SYWTP.com (a bit better but still crappy!) It’s a show about podcasting and how to set things up the right way.

Thanks for listening!

-Mike

Or listen here:

I’m not the best with a camera but, here it is anyway. I’m learning.

This was shot using the original Flip Video camera (The first one to come out a few years ago)

Smile!

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I played some music from www.musicalley.com

Check out my new Video feed at: mikedell.com/feed/mdwv/

Catch me Later!

Anyway, I’m still learning this Video Stuff so bare with me:)

-Mike

Or listen here:

-We have 3 cars so if one breaks down, we have an extra. ALL 3 Broke down!
-Surprise birthday party for my Sister’s 40th
-US Navy Blue Angels jets and the dog barking throughout the podcast
-New audio setup, Let me know how it sounds
-Richard and Joanne’s liners
-National Cherry Festival starts this weekend (With Airshow)
-Music (mostly folky bluegrass stuff)

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Check out podcastmadness.com for your chance to win prizes and listen for the code word at the end of the show today for the summer of podcasts II contest.

Go check out these shows and listen for the promo code.

TPN Weekly Podcast
Midwest Wasteland
Totally Cool Tech Podcast
Meet The Talkers
The CaffiNation Podcast
Video Game News Radio
SDRNews
Tech TalkSvenska!
Kevin’s Oblast Radio

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I will have a code word soon. So keep listening to Mike Dell’s World for yet another chance to win!

-Mike

The feed for both combined is now: http://mikedell.com/mdunplugged This will take you to a really long address that you need to cut an paste into your podcatcher of choice. (or just type in the link above)

One thing you will notice in the feed and on the website is that there will be two different counts.. Ipdadio phonecasts are up to 25 now and MDW Unplugged from the studio is up to 5. The numbering will stay the same.. So when I do my next studio unplugged it will be #6 and the next Ipadio Phonecast will be 26. Not much else I can do with that as Ipadio numbers the phonecasts and doesn’t know anything about anything else in the feed Oh well. anyway…..

You can still continue to listen to the podcasts here on the website as normal. Also, if you are subscribed to the rss on Ipadio for the phone updates and Mike Dell Unplugged feed here on the site, they will still work. You will only get the episodes on the feed you are subscribed to so if you want both, you should re-subscribe to the new feed or subscribe to both feeds.

Either way, I will be updating these podcasts (now just known as Mike Dell unplugged) as I have things to say. No schedule.

Speaking of schedules, I will be updating the Main Mike Dell’s World podcast soon.. I have some recorded from the car and will put it together in the next few days!

I’m also going to start doing some video podcasting soon. Watch for an announcement about that soon.. I won’t put video in my audio feeds but you can watch the video here on the site an/or subscribe to an all new RSS feed called Mike Dell’s World Video (or MDWV) These will be short (under 10 min. ) Videos of things I find interesting or just me ranting into the camera I look forward to playing with that.

Thanks for Reading / Listening / Watching!

-Mike

Or listen here:

Or listen here:

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All the music and spoofs were from www.musicalley.com

Thanks for listening!

A special thank you to Richard Pipe, VK5UK for the bumper and his wife Jo Ann for the same which I will edit down and play in many podcasts to come.

Catch me later!

-Mike

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

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Check back here and check out the “Track me” page for where I am and what’s going on thoughout this adventure to South Texas and back to Grand Haven Michigan. Wish me luck!

-Mike

I played 2 songs from Leftover Salmon (Steam Powered Areoplane and Danger Man) and 1 song from Deep Purple (Clearly Quite Absurd)

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I talked to Trucker Tom for part of the trip home and really thank him for riding along with me driving though the midnight hour!

Sorry for the long delay, but sometimes it happens. I call it Podcaster Block (Like Writer’s block)

Catch me tonight Live on WNMC 90.7 FM – Traverse City or on the web at wnmc.org at 7pm Eastern time for the Folk Aire show.

Catch Me Later!

-Mike

It will make it easier for me to update on the road.

I don’t know if I will write long posts on the phone but it will let me do some portable blogging.

Very cool! Search for “WordPress” in the android store.

-Mike

Catch me later!

(recorded via iPadio)

-Mike

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

Hope you like the car!

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

Today I play a couple of songs and talk about the April Showers going on here in Northern Michigan.

I played the following Songs:

Deep River Blues by Jerks of Grass

Hilidia by Round Mountain

Everybody knows and Rock of Ages by The Duhks

I also talk about the smoking ban in Bars and Restaurants in Michigan What do you think?

Catch me later!

-Mike

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In the third segment, I make a couple of podcast related announcements regarding the Ham Radio Podclass and Today in Aviation History.

I played the following songs:

Dead Dog in the street – Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Said and Done – Kevin Reeves

Thanks for listening!

Catch me later!

-Mike

Check out my other podcasts:

Geek of the North
Ham Radio Podclass
Mike Dell Unplugged (put this one in your RSS reader) – www.mikedell.com/feed/unplugged/
Today in Aviation History This week in Aviation History

Please read below:

We have come to a difficult decision regarding the Ham Radio Podclass’ future. Due to life getting in the way of production of the Extra Topics version of the podcast (the Extra Class Podcast) we are dropping production. We can no longer put the time in required to bring you a quality podcast.

We will also NOT be updating the General class podclass when the question pool changes.

Instead, we are going to concentrate on getting the Technician class updated for the new question pool. The Ham Radio Podclass will be just for entry level ham radio license study. We will leave the episodes that we do have up and available as long as we can.

We thank everyone for your support and will be back with the New Technician course starting in June 2010. Check back at hamradioclass.org (not hamradioclass.com or .net) for a new website, new feed and the new class!

We will provide links to some free and paid resources to get your upgrades on the new website.

Again, thanks for your support!
73
Mike Dell, N7LMJ
John Martin, KF8KK

As stated above, we are going to continue doing the Tech class to get new hams into the hobby. We are just dropping the upgrade podcasts.

-Mike

Catch me later!

-Mike

I played 2 songs from Kevin Reeves – Shine and It’s about Time

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I met with Kevin at Kilkenny’s Irish Public House in Traverse City where he was playing a gig. It was a great time and the Beer is GREAT (from NorthPeak Brewing Co. upstairs from Kilkenny’s Pub.)

I talked about fixing my Mom and Dad’s Macbook and the trouble they had with their Toyota.

I played a song from Slau called “cold one”

I talk about 2 of my classmates from Highschool passing away in the last couple of weeks

I talk about APRS. Check it out at APRS.fi and look for N7LMJ and N7LMJ-9

Catch me later!

-Mike

I talked about getting car fever and how the fever broke ? maybe?

I talk about Traverse City adding zip codes and a little about our Snow Free Spring here in March 2010

I play a song from Matthew Ebel – Drive Away

I talked about the return of Adam Curry and the Daily Source Code and the fact that I’m feeling nostalgic for the “good old days” of podcasting.

I play a song called “Steam powered Airplane” from the group “Leftover Salmon”

Yee Haa.. I have Cable TV now!

Last but not least, I talk about fixing the rust on my old Pickup Truck.

I played Taylor’s Freebird by Todd Taylor.

Don’t forget to check out my other podcasts.

www.geekofthenorth.com – for the Geek of the North weekly podcast and the daily Today in Aviation History

Catch me later!

-Mike

It’s been very springlike here in Northern Michigan. 50′s and 60′s in the day and 30′s at night.

Adam Curry is bringing back the Daily Source Code podcast (so he says) and I play a promo made by Trucker Tom. www.truckertompodcast.com

I play a song called “Your spring will come” by Sid and Fancy

I talk about Honesty and where has it gone?

I played a song from Daniel Adam Johnson called “Your Spring will come”

I also played a song called “Rock of ages” which is a cover song by the Dhucks

Catch me Later!

-Mike

I talk about a lot of Droid and Android stuff. Google Listen and Google Reader are now together.

I’m retiring my ipod for Podcast listening.

I played the songs:
Todd Chapelle – Country Song Titles
Matt Flinner Trio – Atomic City
Tom Smith – Bacon

Catch you next week!

Check out Geek of the North at www.geekofthenorth.com
Check out Today in Aviation Histor at www.geekofthenorth.com

I updated my track me page (http://www.mikedell.com/track-me/) to track my Android phone.

I use an application called Instamapper (http://www.instamapper.com/).

Instamapper will work on most GPS enabled phones including (but not limited to) Android, Iphone, Motorola GPS phones, Blackberry and a few others.

So, if you want to be tracked or you want to track your teenager, give instamapper a try.

Enjoy!