de tomKronieken

Since I read Russell Beattie's article "PodCommuter", where he describes listening to interviews with IT techies during his commute, I've been listening to some IT conversations myself during the commute. I don't own anything like a MuVo, but I do have an MP3 player in my car stereo (one that reads MP3's from a silvery disc - it's nineteen ninety nine all over again!), one (1) CD/RW disc, and a CD/RW writer, and it works just as well. I haven't figured out yet how much time can be on that disc, but it's human voice only, so that should exceed the typical 10 hours of music by far (I think one hour of talk is about 30 MB).

And I'm hooked to it. Instead of listening to the latest traffic jams and the newest house hit in the morning, I'm now listening to, let's say, an interview with Johanna Rothman, or a presentation of Kent Beck. All these ideas that you never have time to grok, now presented to you during the time you lose every day. It almost makes me wonder if I should extend my commute (it's now a mere 10 minutes).

It also makes me hope that the Javapolis presentations will be made available in MP3 format, too (hint, hint).