Ready when you are, AC

Pardon me while I kick myself all over the place. I just sat down to mix the latest Gillmor Daily, a 45 minute conversation with Adam Curry looking back and forward at the cusp of the new year. I've been nursing a persistent cold for almost a month, and have taken advantage of the holiday to woodshed away from production. So when I sat down to record on the Mac with Audio Hijack Pro, I made the colossally stupid error of not clicking the hijack button on the mix module that adds Skype to the stream. The result: a great conversation with me and... nobody.

I doubt seriously if Adam recorded on his end; he was using Skype and a Bluetooth microphone. The sound was OK, with a little echo in the background that seemed to disappear after a while. My goal, as I summed up at the end we had reached so successfully, was to get Adam's thoughts on where we were, how significant landmarks such as Howard Stern's move to Sirius might effect the podosphere, and whether or not we were facing an inversion of the search model, where information was to reach out to find us rather than the other way around.

But it's not to be. At the end, Adam said he thought it had gone well, and he'd be glad to do it again anytime. I told him he would be sorry he made that offer. I'm sure he didn't mean doing the same thing again. Not gonna happen. Crap crap crap.

One thing Adam asked me about was the socalled Google PC. I must admit I think that story is bogus, but I finally responded to the question by suggesting that Sun's SunRay was certainly a possible platform for the gambit. A year ago Scott McNealy told me the engineering on LANs was done, but the WAN version was still in the labs as the gating factor for releasing a cross-domain "consumer" version. The timeframe: around now. I still don't give a damn about a ported OpenOffice hairball, whether on the server or not, and Udell's stirring of the Alchemy pot belies the fact that BEA locked the IP up behind its firewall before Bosworth left. And I'd give a whole lot more for a calendar plugin to Gmail than a 200 buck GPC.

But as Adam suggests, plenty of us might check out one of these puppies on line at GMart for free, especially in return for a contract that trades the lot for our attention metadata. That's why GestureBank is coming soon to a screen near you. That is, if I can remember the damn record button. Sorry Adam, maybe you can resurrect some of what you said on the Source Code. I feel like crawling back into bed for another month. IDIOT!