I came across a great metaphor for relationships awhile ago - bricks and mortar. Bricks are the “big things” - the events of life that you share with friends. Mortar is the little, everyday stuff, that the people you are closest to just know about, often whether they want to or not.

As Scheherazade wrote in her original blog post that caught my eye, bricks get all the attention. When we think about communication, we think about the bricks. But mortar is what makes it all stick together, and without it there’s no solid foundation.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been focusing on my fiction a lot more lately. And as a part of that, I’m really excited to be launching the podcast of my SF novel, Beautiful Red.

You can have a listen to the promo here, or even better, head over to the site at http://darusha.ca/beautifulred to subscribe to get the episodes automatically.

In honour of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I give you Career Opportunities, a very short story I wrote for the flash fiction contest run earlier this year by the awesome Escape Pod science fiction podcast.

The podcast feed may have been wacky for the last little while. It’s been fixed, but you may see some duplicates. Sorry.

My talk from the Podcast Academy 3 at Yahoo! this past summer is up now at the Podcast Academy channel. Check it out.

It’s not exactly that I don’t like iTunes - when I first started using it I was blown away by how great it was. And it just kept getting better until it hit that point. The point where it’s trying to do so many things that it doesn’t do anything right for me.

I admit that I’m not a lover of converged devices - I have a pda, a phone and a music player; they are all separate devices to perform separate functions. I like it that way.

I recently discovered that a lot of visitors find this site searching for information about how to watch podcasts. Obviously, that’s because the name of my podcast is Tech Watch.

However, I can provide the answer to that question. Most video podcasts have a website where you can watch the episodes online in your web browser. If you want to subscribe, though, you’ll need both a podcast aggregator and a video player. This is where it can get tricky.

If you’re on a Mac (I can’t speak to the Windows version) DO NOT upgrade to the new version of myPodder. It downloads podcasts to a directory that is within the application package (full explanation below for those who are interested). This means it’s very hard to get at your podcast files and any automated system will fail.

Feedback on the last episode from Victor Cajiao.

Check out Victor’s podcasts:

• Typical PC User
• Typical Mac User
• Immigration Tales

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