This is an excerpt of a conversation between myself and one of the folks currently working on the redesign of the MacRadio site. Great people for the most part. But I am occasionally reminded of their one failing when events like these occur. Names changed to protect the guilty. ;)

Omaha: hi, Craig, I was wondering if we were still on for our meeting today?

Craig: Hi, Omaha, sorry, I was hit with a virus over the weekend, and I just now got up and running today to give you a call about it.

Omaha: Oh, I know how that goes. I got hit by a virus last week, only I didn’t know whether it was a cold or allergies…

Craig: No, I mean computer virus.

Omaha: [picture of Omaha with "deer in the headlights" look] Oh.

Craig: Yeah, I disabled my virus software for two hours on XP while I was installing an application, and it was enough time for a worm to hit my system, then a hacker got in through that and took complete control of my system….

Omaha: [picture of Omaha with look of horror like she just saw someone get hit by a car] Wow, um, I’m really sorry.

Craig: [continues to describe his computer woes]…and only an hour ago did I get access to your phone number to give you a call.

Omaha: [bites tongue to stop herself from saying "you should have gotten a Mac"]

Omaha and Craig talk a little more about rescheduling, then end the phone conversation.

Omaha gets down on the floor and hugs her beloved G5 tower, saying, “You are soooooo good to me.”

Over the weekend I received the great news that Freeverse had updated Sound Studio, which I use to both record and edit many of my interviews, to 3.5. Great, I thought. I had chatted with one of the developers of this app at Macworld and he had said that another version would be coming out sometime soon. Now I get to see what they put in (and if one of my suggestions made it in ;).

Unfortunately, I don’t get to find out. Why? SS is now crashing all over the place. Argh! I first realized the problem when I tried to use the 10 Band Equalizer and listen to the preview. Down went SS…continuously. I deleted the .plist for SS, and when I brought SS back up, things seemed to be fine. I was editing for about fifteen or twenty minutes, then suddenly everything starts crashing again.

I’m sending in a crash log to Freeverse to find out what’s going on, but unfortunately I don’t think it’s going to save the podcast for today. I can’t edit my two interviews I was planning on having in today’s podcast…I even tried just making a change, then saving the file. I couldn’t even finish the save before the app crashed.

And, no, I can’t use Audacity. It *always* crashes.

ETA: I was able to locate a previous version of SS so I should be able to post my podcast today. Yeah!

I just finished posting my podcast about my trip to the GDC 2007. Awesome trip, and I learned a lot and made a lot of contacts. Did a lot of interviewing, and have enough content for at least two, probably three, podcasts about the GDC. So I’ll be posting that over the next two to three weeks.

As for where I’ve been? I’ve been prepping for, then attending, the GDC. Heh. And doing a lot of other stuff that took up a lot of time. At least one thing to check out is my overview of the GDC on Mac|Life.