Holiday Podcast is up.

I've also posted a Pure Holiday mix for everyone, sort of a bit of a seasonal gift. It will only be up untill Christmas:

Holiday Flavor 2005

Still slammed at work, but finally, I am out the door. Baking cookies with the 'rents tomorrow.

Cool Site: Google Operand Reference - Very Handy, print and stick by monitor.
Hilarious Media: SNL's Chronic of Narnia - Rock those Cupcakes, yo!

Taking the night off from the usual haunts to take care of some items around the house and what not.

Booked travel plans for the great northwest. Will be arriving in PDX on the 23rd and will be there untill the 30th.

The last few weeks have seen some fantastic shows come through:

1) Doc Martin and Mark Farina at the Vanguard.
  - I'd have to say that the Vanguard is now THE spot in Hollywood for quality dance music. What a great show. Great sound and a very non-hollywood crowd. amazing time.

2) Dubtribe's last LA performance.
  - Dubtribe was great, played all the hits, an almost spiritual experience. They will be missed.

3) Lisa Shaw and Aquanote at King King.
  - My first impressions of King King are not bad, Pretty boxy venue, but still good. Lisa was in top form, and Aquanote's back up set was great!

On the work front:

Work is damn near all-consuming right now, minor bug fixes, design and requirement reviews for next year's products, and inline releases are keeping jack a very busy boy. I never intended to have 50 hours be the average work week. Still I'm finding it very rewarding. Still no new hires in my dept yet, but hopefully some will show up soon.

I was in Fry's the other day, and there it was: the 2006 product line. I got that weird feeling that I got when I saw it last year too. Cool to be a part of that, yet still strange.

The re-org had a surprise up it's sleeve, we lost a big-wig. However, I'm very excited by his replacement, and I think things will get better than they have been.

The company Party was held at a large club in hollywood, and I made some good connections with the management there. (the new Madonna mashup [gasp! yes, freakin' Madonna] I got went over huge with the saturday night attendants!)

evidence follows:


The Podcasts have been gathering legs. I checked the logs for December and some episodes that been downloaded over 200 times already! Bandwidth seems to be doing ok, so I will probably cross post it a little. also, for those not techincally savvy enough, you can listen online at Odeo

LA Sighting: Homeless people camp on the sidewalk in actual camping tents.

That's all for now.

Cool Site: 50 coolest websites of 2005 - 50 cool sites in one (well, mostly cool.)
Cool Site: Samarost2 - amazing  and addictive flash game

Episode 3 of the podcast is up. you can find it here. It looks like I've been building my feed in reverse order, so I'll have to retool that tonight, so that may cause some folks aggregators to go a little haywire. Luckily there's only three, so everyone should be able to figure it out. My apologies.

Cool Site: say-so - looks like an AJAX driven anonymous question site, cool layout.
Cool Media: LucaZappa's button maker - handy Badge-o-Matic for your site's needs

Episode 2 of the Podcast is available.

I've also created a syndicated feed to keep track of new releases: wrc_podcast.

Guest Mixes are starting to filter in, so based on bandwidth and demand, frequency of episodes might go, up, we'll see.

Cool Site: Cool things you can do with RSS - it's Tres Web 2.0, yo.
Cool Media: Armagetron Advanced - For all your 'De-Res' needs!

The Westide Record Crew podcast is live.

The Westside Underground Podcast (RSS link)

See also the feed link in the link section to the Left.

Weekly installments, Brand New releases from Europe and the US, themed shows, guest mixes, new shows every Monday!
Playlists available at http://podcast.westsiderecords.com

We'll see what the bandwidth hit is, but I'm going to try to keep it at around 50 minutes at 128-192K, for your high quality listening/working out pleasure.
Send feedback to me via comments or by "crew at westisderecords.com"

We are still working out a few minor technical issues, but nothing major. should have it all worked out here pretty soon.

Cool Site: PodNova - new podcast portal with flash enabled player
Very Cool Media: Ipod Heroes - Great Ipod covers!