stop and listen for a while

I’ve been wanting to try podcasting for a looong time. So here is the first attempt. I’m joined for this experiment by the totally awesome Simon Pollock of gtvone.com. We cover a huge range of topics from facebook, social networking, the iPad, SEO for photographers, Music, Gowalla, Openscreen.tv, Bands, The Panasonic DMC-TS2, The Nikon Coolpix s8000, Lecia Lenses blessed by kitten love and a whole host of other topics. We basically rattle on for an hour and a half for your listening pleasure. I hope you find the audio quality passable (considering its via skype and my first attempt). I’d love to have some feedback in the comments on either the topics covered, whether you found it useful/entertaining and more importantly if I should do more? Enjoy!

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Just as you think things are on the up…you hit a brick wall. You’ll see from the picture that I finally have my CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) machine to try and deal with my sleep apnea. Sadly though this hasn’t been the miracle cure I expected. I’m sure it will work out in the end but at the moment the struggle of trying to get used to sleeping with such a contraption is almost as bad as dealing with the sleep apnea itself. I’m trying to remain positive about it all but at the moment it’s just seems like an uphill struggle and one I don’t have the energy for.

I’ve spent much of the last 48 hours sleeping solidly, not because of the machine, but because I’ve had a really nasty cold/flu bug which has left me completely wiped out. My asthma is driving me nuts and I ache all over. Today I have to say I’m feeling much better than I did yesterday but I’d be telling porkie pies if I said I was anywhere near 100% power.

I realise this all sounds a bit depressing. Life really isn’t that bad I’m just feeling the bumps in the road this week. I guess on a positive note Paul (@fwump) sent me a tweet earlier in the week to let me know the prints they’d got from the wedding shots I took turned out alright, Which is cool and it’s clear from the off-the-hook stuff that Nathan Pask (@bigcrustyape) is posting on his blog and portfolio that the site I created for him is working well (and he’s having WAY to much fun shooting cool stuff). I also spent a little time the other week helping the legendary music photographer Simon Pollock (@gtvone) take control of his blog and gallery space and that seems to be working well for him. So thats all pretty cool. All that good karma should come back and bite me on the ass soon right? I’m sure it will. Until then I’m off to take another lemsip and cough up a lung!!