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Thursday, November 15, 2007

phyllostachys 46: Minute Tech 31 show notes

31 - Veterans Day Revealed.


Good morning, this is the Minute Tech podcast -

coming to you for Thursday, November 15th, 2007

We take a few minutes to talk about technology
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This is Alex Landefeld with minute tech 31 - Veterans Day Revealed

Minute Tech podcast is brought to you in part by:

Larry Tolbert's Sunday Morning Wu Style Taiji - 9:30 every Sunday morning at the Dunamis Baptist Church, in Wilkinsburg, PA.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji" - e-mail leonardtolbert-[at]-hotmail-[dot]-com for more info.

Tech items:

What do Gandalf, Harry Potter and Libsyn all have in common? Why, they're wizzards, of course!

Libsyn, the podcast hosting website, is now a subsidiary of Wizzard Software of Pittsburgh. Wizzard Software, which has been around in various small company formulations since 1998, yesterday announced stellar revenue increases...though as a truly growing company, their net income, and the hence earnings per share, were in decidedly negative territory.

Go to the SEC's website and search on W-I-Z-D and you'll find Wizzards 10q report. I'll link to it here in the show notes.

Let me read to you a brief blurb about the company from a recent SEC filing - yes, I read those things and love 'em!

"Organization - Wizzard Software Corporation ["Parent"], a Colorado corporation, was organized on July 1, 1998. The Company operates in two industry segments, Software and Healthcare. The Software segment engages primarily in the development, sale, and service of custom and packaged computer software products, and podcast hosting services. The Healthcare segment operates primarily in the home healthcare and healthcare staffing services in Wyoming and Montana. On April 9, 2004, Parent organized Wizzard Merger Corp., a New York corporation, to acquire and dissolve into the operations of MedivoxRx Technologies, Inc., a New York corporation, in a transaction accounted for as a purchase. On September 8, 2005, Parent purchased all of the issued and outstanding shares of Interim Healthcare of Wyoming, Inc. ["Interim"], a Wyoming corporation, in a transaction accounted for as a purchase. On February 27, 2007, Parent organized Wizzard Acquisition Corp., a Pennsylvania corporation, to acquire and dissolve into the operations of Webmayhem, Inc. [Libsyn], a Pennsylvania corporation, in a transaction accounted for as a purchase. Libsyn engages primarily in providing podcast hosting services. On April 3, 2007, Interim purchased certain assets of Professional Personnel, Inc., dba, Professional Nursing Personnel Pool ["PNPP"]."



Tech Question:

Veterans Day Revealed....or what truly is Veterans day?

Did you know that Veterans Day is the same as Armistice Day as it's celebrated in Europe? World War I ended on the "the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice". As of 1926, the US government made November 11th to be celebrated in the US as Armistice Day. In 1968 the US government changed the observed holiday to be called "Veterans Day" and to always fall on a Monday - Veterans groups rightly protested...so the official day is on November 11th, with the government and banking holiday (though not the stock market, etc.) falling on the Monday holiday.

Wikipedia tells us that

"Remembrance Day (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom), also known as Poppy Day (Malta, South Africa) or Armistice Day (France, New Zealand, and a number of other Commonwealth countries; and the original name of the day internationally) is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918. The day was specifically dedicated by King George V, on 7 November 1919, to the observance of members of the armed forces who were killed during war; this was possibly done upon the suggestion of Edward George Honey to Wellesley Tudor Pole, who established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917.[1][2]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day


podcasting/blogging tidbit:

The cool thing about setting a topical theme for the week on this podcast is that little by little I learn more about the subject...and different ways in which to present it. How do you present things?

Also, how do you present advertisements? I've designed the brief advertisement for my teacher's tai class at the beginning of this 'cast. A valued listener suggested putting a related trailer at the end. How do these work for you?

I mentioned using twitter recently...but didn't mention an alteration to my twitter habit, involving the ubiquitous twitter feature, the "tiny URL" www.tinyurl.com is the home of a service that twitter uses to short URL's, the links to everywhere on the internet. This is so that messages stay short, no matter how long an internet is...and some can be 10's or 100s of characters long.

But....if you paste in your long URL after a lengthy message in Twitter...you get told that the message is too long...even if the eventual tinyURL converted link will be short. So, a resolution.

If you go to www.tinyURL.com, you can paste your URL into their web page...and have it converted for you before you compose your Twitter message! Go try it out...that's how I'm making my twitter posts just as windy as usual! :-)


Thats all for today on Minute Tech podcast.
you can reach me at minutetech@gmail.com -
and my blog is at minutetech.blogspot.com

- Wizzards, one and all;
- Veterans Day Revealed.
- Use tinyURL to enhance your twittering.

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