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I recently decided to embark on a journey of digitizing a box full of audio cassettes. Those who knew me growing up—especially when I was in junior high and earlier—know I was always goofing off with a microphone and a tape recorder. I operated a pirate radio station at AM 1630 for a while too. It’s broadcast radius covered most of the town of Granger, UT, where I lived.

One of the nuggets I found was actually much later than that. In 1995, I had just published (self-published) a book about the World Wide Web titled Fozziliny George Moo’s Guide To The World Wide Web and was asked by a friend to appear on his radio program.

Now, about this friend: His name is Doran Barons. Freaky, right?! My name is Doran Barton! His name is Doran Barons!

He saw a letter I had written to the editors of Wired magazine a few months before (which was subsequently published in Wired) and sent me e-mail to introduce himself. This triggered a series of e-mail exchanged between us which led to him inviting me on his radio program, Digital Village a weekly radio program on KFPK, 90.7FM in Los Angeles, CA.

Digital Village has an online MP3 archive of their radio program going back to 2000 and they’ve hosted some impressive guests on their radio program like Neal Stephenson (one of my favorite authors), Bruce Sterling (another of my favorite authors), Steve Wozniak (who started Apple with Steve Jobs), Bruce Schneier, and Lawrence “Larry” Lessig. It’s cool that I preceded such giants. :-)

After I did the telephone interview with the radio program, Doran sent me a cassette tape of the program and I’ve digitized it (with Doran’s permission). So, if anyone’s interested in taking a peek back in time to 1995 to hear about the World Wide Web in its relative infancy, here it is:

• http://www.xmission.com/~fozz/podcast/19950917-digital_village.mp3

It’s clear I was fresh from doing lots of research for my book. It’s fun listening to me advise one of the show’s callers to contact the “site” he was getting his dialup access through to see if they offered anything like PPP, SLIP, or TIA so he could “extend the Internet to his home computer over his dialup line” or he could use lynx at the shell prompt on the Unix system he was dialing into.

Visiting Jennie's blog just fills me with a ton of guilt for not popuating this space in a more frequent manner. So much so that... I'm doing something about it.

One reason I haven't been blogging is because I've been working on overhauling the Fozzolog code - the code that drives this blog (and a few others). I should have been done with that a couple weeks ago, but I've been so busy with other stuff, it hasn't happened.

Other stuff? Oh, just work, mostly. Iodynamics is very busy right now. It's gratifying to look at the "Big Board" (a reference to Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 7) at our Salt Lake office -- it is chock full of active (Hot & Spicy) projects.

There have been three Sons Of Nothing shows in January. One in Park City and two in Colorado. These shows mark a landmark for me and the band: the first time we've run visuals and audio effects completely without the Windows operating system. Everything is running Linux now.

I'm very pleased.

We recorded the audio and video from these recent shows and I have been editing it all into some multimedia that may be usable as promotional material for the band.

Meanwhile, the rest of the band -- the actual musicians -- have been busy recording the next CD. I've been up to Matt's house to observe and document a couple of times and it's sounding great.