Hmm..

I've tried several times to email a blog but doesn't appear to work. Knowing my luck I will suddenly end up with the emailed blog appearing 3 times.

So I will write another blog for today.

I had to deliver a training course this morning to 10 people, the room is only designed for 8. So really wasn't looking it. It went OK in the end, as well as I could of done it anyway. I find it hard to make jokes and stuff when I'm having to concentrate so hard on what I'm delivering. Due to not being comfortable with the subject I'm teaching (blind leading the blind).

This blog isn't going to have much structure to it as I'm just going to write things as they pop into my head (scatter brain).

I've been having a problem with Winamp the last couple of days, for some reason it will start then exit straight away. Not sure why as it's worked for months with no problems. Think I'm gonna have to re-install it. I've got a newer version anyway. Forgot how crap some of the other media players are with large music collections like mine. Windows Media Player & iTunes take ages to do anything :-(

While I'm on the subject of music and media players. I'm definetly totally hooked on Podcasts. Podcasts are recorded MP3 radio shows that can be downloaded and played on your MP3 player or computer and listened to whenever you want to. Read this USAToday article on them for more info.

I listen to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code all the time, he is like the godfather of Podcasting. In his show he talks about all sorts of stuff and always trys to highlight other peoples Podcasts. One of the highlights is the music trivia quiz. You hear song clips and have to guess who they are, you can listen to the quizes here.

About a month ago I signed up to some Google Alerts, you enter some keywords and whenever google comes across a new page with your keywords on, it send you an email with the page. Not had anything of much interest using "Steven Horner" but have had a few interesting alerts using the village I live in. Google Alerts are totally free so worth having a go.

I've also been looking at using Skype, I wrote a blog last night on my phone and tried to post it but didn't seam to work. In it I mentioned about Skype. It's an internet telephone program, you can talk to another Skype user for free anywhere in the world but it also allows you to call landlines in most major countries for only 1.1p a minute. Check out the Skype Website for more info as I said it's free unless you ring a landline.

I've got to finish off a computer for a friend so better get back to that or it wont be ready for tomorrow night when I'm supposed to be delivering it.