Somewhat Monday

Allergy acting up again, which is weird. Might be from too much football-oriented talk during the day (incidentally, I loathe football). There were, however, some interesting news:

  • First off, a way to help others to something extra cool: The Astmasters (who are working to improve the quality of Asterisk ports to ) have set up a hardware exchange page for people willing to donate old hardware or installation CDs.
  • Still in the VoIP field, here's an interview with Vonage's CEO, which has an unusual amount of interesting tidbits.
  • has finally reached 0.7, which means network notifications are now available to everyone. I'll be cleaning up to reflect the new version numbers, and apparently it is all still working (haven't checked logs or the mailing-list lately, but all my network stuff is working after installing the new prefpane).
  • Podcasting (also known as "audio ego-tripping" by the skeptics who deny it any relevance whatsoever) is apparently going to be a feature of 4.9. My guess is that needed another excuse to bump the version number closer to 5.0, but the fact that you're going to be able to upload podcasts to the Music Store closes the "personal publishing loop" I hinted at .

Indie audio, here we come.