More Podcasts and Apple blew up

So yesterday I was downloading my podcasts like usual and I got out to the car and started to load my morning listening, and boom there was NOTHING on my ipod. I even used the Apple eject button at the bottom right, to no avail. Oh well. I had to try about 10 times to get it to load up and sync, very annoying. What I think finally did it was ejecting the drive from itunes and then reconnecting it without doing anything else to itunes. But anyways, maybe I'll go back to Amarok for my Linux syncing.

Amarok mainly did what I wanted, my only slight issue was that it messes up song timings somehow, which is probably a libgtkpod problem. I thought some of my podcasts were having issues from a Amarok POV, but I now lay blame to the podcast publishers.

I've been listening to the mysportsradio.com stuff. Mainly just NFL and the Bears cast, although I may pick up the Pittsburgh cast for my wife. Good stuff. The other thing I got is that Franciscan started a "Spirit and Life" podcast from their conferences. Go to www.franciscanconferences.com to find it. So that's most of it. I went to the Charismatic conference this last weekend. Great stuff. Patty Mainsfield (I believe that's the correct spelling) and Sr. Briege McKenna were amazing speakers. Overall it's been a good pick me up, get back to your spiritual life for me.

Upcoming is that an open source project got me really jazzed and once I get a few patches done this week I'll blog on it.

What was lost is found

So I lost my plane the other day. Either I made some mistakes or I ejected the battery, I'm not precisely sure, but I do know it went down straight while rolling and I was certainly trying to pull out. It wasn't the typical your upside down, pull up and pull into the trees. So I am leaning towards the fact that I ejected the battery which would be mostly me playing fast and loose because I kind of knew it was a bit ejection prone on crash at least. Oh well. I just wish I could find the battery so I knew it had discharged correctly and won't cause problems.

The plane itself got stuck in a tree. That's the only real problem with running it by my house is that the forrest trees around here have no branches to climb until you are 50 feet up or so. That meant that I had to wait for almost 48 hours for a good wind to blow it out. I'll just have to be a bit more careful though. Unfortunately It looks like I'm out 50 bucks at the moment though. Luckily it looks like there are more lower cost li-po's which may soften the cost.