Al's Blog-o-Sphere

I’m spending a week skiing in Colorado, just in case you hadn’t heard already. I’m going to post a journal of the trip here just for the heck of it.

I lugged the laptop through the airports and bus ride, on the chance I’d have access to the internet, so I might as well make use of it. Almost everywhere you go you can find an open wi-fi port these days and ski towns are some of the easiest. Worst case, you have to find a Starbucks or internet cafe. I lucked out and we found open access in the condos we were staying in. It comes and goes – but when it’s on, it’s good.

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I went to a concert last night. Not my usual low-budget bar-crawl, but a real show in a real concert hall – Rockwell Hall at Buffalo State College.

I saw Roger McGuinn, best known as a founder of The Byrds, although that seems so inadequate a way of describing his talent and influence on modern music. (Even though my wife didn’t know who he was…) I have been wanting to see him for a while now. He played the same venue a year or so ago, but I couldn’t get clear to go. Continue Reading…

I went to a conference – actually, an un-conference – a couple weeks ago in Toronto about podcasting. It was called Podcamp Toronto and was held at Ryerson University right in downtown Toronto.

I had a great time, of course. I’ve always liked Toronto ever since our days in high school when my class went there for a class trip. We liked it so much, we went twice, two different years. We went to Crystal Beach one other year, and I don’t remember the fourth, so Canada in general was pretty popular.
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