Things...

In reality: I have a real job to do, where I make money, to pay the bills for things like web hosting.  

For those of you who listened live to the Al & Mike Show last week and watched one of the most embarrassing moments in online broadcasting history, you'll be happy to know that this week, the studio is equipped with appropriate backups in the case we suffer such a failure again.  

The postmortem on the actual failure, turned out to be a failed CPU fan inside the computer responsible for driving the mix, and providing the production audio.  The phone system and internet stream continued to work fine, well, because they are both controlled by separate computers.  

The most embarrassing part of all, was not the crash itself, but the fact we lost the entire recording.  

This error was my fault.  The backup minidisc recorder was not rolling, and I had not bothered to enable to record function on ustream either.  The backups were sound.  The operator was not.

I now have a printed checklist of things to do before the show.  One of those things now includes "pushing the red record button on minidisc recorder".

In terms of guests, we have Gerry Nicholls this week.  And next week we have Kate McMillan of the SDA.