This morning I had the great pleasure to appear on a podcast with an old mate from the U.K., Ian Dixon. Ian, James and I all worked together in our early days of podcasting; if you’re not familiar with Ian’s work, let me share a few tidbits. Ian is a Microsoft MVP in the Windows Media Center area and he provides a great podcast and a video series on Media Center. He also has a Windows Media Center book available and sure enough, he’s a UMPC owner too! In fact, Ian asked me on his podcast for a conversation on UMPCs; the show should be available in a few weeks and we’ll get a link up once it goes live. I had a great time this morning and I just got to thinking how amazing it was that we could actually do what we did.
Think back just three or four years ago. It would have required a bit of special recording equipment and we likely would have used a dedicated phone line for the show. Today, I literally rolled out of bed and fired up Skype at 8 am EDT with my cup of coffee. No muss, no fuss and I could have done the interview from nearly anywhere I had a good data connection. There was no cost for the voice conversation and I had near total flexibility in my location. Can you imagine a few years back if someone said "Hey, I did a UK interview in my pajamas from my PC at 8 with coffee and had breakfast in the US by 9 today." How much has your life changed in the past few year thanks to mobile technology? Mine sure has….otherwise, I would have had to change out of my PJs for the show!
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