In an earlier post, I covered which shows I had nominated for this year’s Podcast Awards. I was not at all surprised to find that most of those shows didn’t make the final cut for awards voting. Regardless, there are still some shows on the final ballot that I’m going to support. Here’s my list:

Entertainment: Buffy Between The Lines
GLBT: Yeast Radio
Health/Fitness: Being Healthy For Busy People
Mature: The Dawn and Drew Show
Political: No Agenda

Any categories I left out are categories I’m not participating in, mostly because I’m not familiar with any of the shows in those categories. Best of luck to all of the shows that have been nominated!

In reference to a comment (found at the bottom of that linked page) made by Erk, I decided to come up with a graphic for NaPodPoMo. My graphic design skills aren’t the best. But it’s something. The graphic is licensed under Creative Commons, so feel free to copy it, distribute it, post it to your own site/podcast, alter it… whatever.

It’s that time of the year again. Time to nominate your favorite shows for the Podcast Awards. In the past, I’ve regarded these awards as a waste of time. But I’ve caved. It’s either due to social media peer pressure, or I’m just getting soft in my old age. Below is my list of nominees. I don’t listen to shows that properly fit into all awards categories. But I didn’t want to just leave those categories blank, so I put in the names of shows that I felt could at least sorta fit those categories. Furthermore, I subscribe to a lot of podcasts. There’s no way I could nominate all of them. So, don’t feel bad if your show doesn’t show up on the list.

Peoples Choice: Erk Pod
Best Produced: Wasting Time Podcast
Best Video Podcast: Shawnogram
Best Mobile Phone Formatted Podcast: Inside My Head
Business: Democracy Now
Comedy: Hyper Nonsense
Cultural/Arts: Outside The Loop Radio
Education: Podcast Junky
Entertainmentt: The Media Burnout
Food and Drink: Andy Not Andrew
Gaming: All Things Azeroth
General: DarkCompass
GLBT: Yeast Radio
Health: Being Healthy For Busy People
Mature: Nobody Likes Onions
Movies/Films: Rental Reviews
Podsafe Music: Ourobouros Podcast
Political: No Agenda
Religion Inspiration: Enlighten Up
Sports: Some Guys In A Car
Tech/Science: podCast411
Travel: Grizzly’s Growls Podcast

On the train ride home from last week’s trip to Monterey, I noticed some problems with my headphones. Specifically, the right earphone would cut out unless the in-line volume control was turned all the way up. No big deal, I figured. I had purchased a two-year replacement plan for the headphones. I’d just take ‘em back to Radio Shack and make an exchange. Then, after going through the rather tedious process of getting the exchange all ready to go (I won’t bore you with all of the details, but it had to be done through the mail, not in-store), the headphones began working again. They’re not perfect. There’s still a little cutting in/out, but it’s not major. I decided to cancel the return. I figured if the Radio Shack people tested ‘em, and disproved my original claim, they’d just send ‘em back to me as-is. Besides, I still have the warranty and can arrange for another exchange if they really do die in the future.
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Last week, the Hyper Nonsense website disappeared. Not sure for how long. Don’t think it was any longer than a day. But, somehow, the entire site had been deleted from the server. I didn’t do it. Jen didn’t do it. And we’re the only ones who have FTP access to the site. I checked with tech support at my web hosting company. But tech support didn’t have an explanation for the deletion. Tech support did restore the site rather quickly from the company’s backups, which was nice. Aside from one minor addition to the blogroll, the entire site returned just as it was. Regardless, this incident makes me wonder if the site could’ve been hacked. There’s been plenty of news lately about WordPress sites getting hacked. But those hack jobs were usually done by spammers. In this case, the site was simply nuked into non-existence. It’s always possible too that it was some random fluke caused by the server that made the site vanish. I’ll probably never know for sure. And considering how easy it was to get the site back to its former state, I’m not that worried about it happening again. I guess the lesson to be learned here is, MAKE BACKUPS. Or make sure someone is doing it for you!