I'm going on vacation for two weeks to Athens and Crete. My wife is Greek and therefore we go every summer to Greece. Going on vacation also means no laptop (that's not my deceison ;-). So usually, I take some geek books with me. This time I loaded my mp3 player with the 9 Callisto pod-casts from Eclipse Zone and a few of the Software Engineering Radio pod-casts.
I tried it on Friday. It's a almost like being in a conference call. But it's better: I can wind back if I get sidetracked and I don't have to be afraid that suddenly someone says: "And Michael, what do you think?....". I was shopping and listening to Richard Gromback on GMF. I was waiting in the queue to pay and when it was my turn, I started talking in English to the German cashier -- lost in cyberspace...
One thing I think pod-casts should do: Please say at the beginning of the pod-cast when it was recorded! If someone says: "Next month we'll release foobar..." it is annoying not to know when next month is or was...
And now, relaaaaaxxx, summer, sun, beach, fun -- for 2 weeks -- I'll be back Sep.5 late afternoon....
