We resumed our Sunday biking this morning after a 2 month break from rainy days and friend staying over. This is the first time Alec worn his new bike helmet since he bought it after our last Sunday biking where he ended up with a minor heat stroke from his old and much less ventilated helmet. This one works great for him and it looks much better.
Today was a nice breezy day. Not so hot but kinda too windy for roller-blading. It caught William in a front wind making it difficult for him heading back. We all went kinda slow today taking us about an hour and a half round trip yet still not much of a workout for me since I had to go at Alec’s much slower speed. I ended up doing a full workout at the gym this evening as well. Perhaps it is time to get Alec a bike with gears so he could go faster without needing to go at a frantic cadence.
Published by James at 20:32 UTC Oct 2, 2005
in misc.
A friend asked what good is Podcast when there is radio. Well, as much as Podcast is similar to radio as far as the “tuning-in” is concern, their similarities end there. The radio broadcasts what and when the stations have scripted and scheduled to. Unless one tune-in to the archives on the station’s websites, listeners basically have no control over what and when to listen to other than just switching stations blindly.
Whereas with Podcast, listeners choose what and when to listen. Listeners can even upload the selected Podcasts to their iPods and wait until there is free time to listen in on their favorite subjects. The problem is, one selects too many programs and eventually piling up programs after programs which may or may not ended up get deleted by the user programmable preset schedules.
For myself, I listen to music with my iPod when I do weights at the gym and listen to Podcasts when I am on the treadmill. Trouble is, I am on the treadmill for about 35 minutes to 70 minutes at a time and program times range from 2 minutes to over an hour each.
WhaUSay?!