I am getting either no response at all, or an error message "...Windows media cannot find file at specified location..." when I try to download or play this podcast (Opera and IE6). I also had trouble downloading last week, but the "play audio" feature then seemed to be working.

Hi there,

It seems to be working for me but it did take a few seconds for the download to start. Let me know if you try again and I'll talk to the hosting people some more.

Brian

Downloading seems to be working now, thanks. Incidentally, this may or may not be relevant to this particular problem, but it should be possible to compress your mp3 file further without noticeably sacrificing audio quality. E.g. John Derbyshire squeezes 20 minutes into about 4MB if I remember correctly. (The way to do this on my "Audacity" audio editor seems to be to reduce the output bit rate to 32 Kb/s or so, as compared with 305 Kb/s for your current file.)

I can only speak for myself, but I rather liked Doug's new corner, although I cannot claim to possess any great amount of knowledge about the subject he had chosen. He was interesting and presented good points. Kodus to him.

 Thanks for bringing back Meryl, even if it's only for this one time. My cousin goes to Virginia Tech (thankfully she wasn't in class when the massacre took place), so what she said held more meaning for me than one may at first assume.

 Hopefully the next podcasts could afford to be more cheerful, and I'm sorry if I've been too blunt in my previous comments.

Thank you very much for your kind words.  I listened with horror myself, as I realized that, somehow, the effect I use when I’m quoting other people (kind of an AM radio sound, basically a high-pass filter) had been applied to the whole segment rather than just the quoted material. Tinny sound is OK for an effect, but not for 4 minutes. Sorry about that. I’ll be more careful next time with the audio editing program.

Yeah, that was good Yourish.

Like the new guy too. Nearly libertarian!