Hillside Meditations

These days I have been getting a number of new techno-gadgets (spending money I should save, I know). I am going to tell you about them one by one - the first I am going to blog about is my new Sanyo Sanyo ICR-B180NX digital voice recorder, which seems to be sold under a different name outside Germany.



It is a nice little (see the ballpoint pen in the photo) thingy which was not too expensive, has an acceptable recording quality, comes with an USB port, behaves like a mass storage device with my Linux workstation and records mp3-files (and no proprietary formats like many other digital voice recorders). I got it along with a 512 MB mini-SD-storage card and should not runout of memory space too soon.

Inspiration for getting the thing came (I know and I am properly ashamed) from a Star Trek Voyager episode where a 20th century Janeway used something similiar for keeping an audio logbook - and of course I thought (and found out by searching Google-Blogs) it might be an acceptable low-level equipment for occasional podcasting on Hillside Meditations.

As for the audio diary I have been too lazy so far and podcasting will not really be my world, I guess (too transient, somehow, you cannot cut and paste and thus quote and trackback - blogging and podcasting seem to me like vector graphics and bitmaps in certain ways), but it is a cute little thing I am carrying around with me all the time (along with my mobile phone, my digicam and another gadget I am going to tell about VSN) for the occasional good idea to record it.

Ok, I just like the IDEA of my little digital voice recorder, just let me, will you? Anyway on this occasion I thought I could as well leave a sample of my voice on Hillside Meditations (thus trying out WordPress´ podcasting functions) and so below you will find an MP3 of me reading one of my favorite Rudyard Kipling poems: “Cold Iron”. No, I don´t want any review on my perfomance, thank you…

PODCAST: coldiron.mp3

Sanyo, ICR-B180NX, digital+voice+recorder, podcasting, Kipling, cold+iron

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