Yesterday, I found out that I can record audio with Odeo.com if I use Windows. On Linux however, the microphone is still silent. I don’t know if that is connected with the sudden unusability of Audacity under Linux as well. But I can listen to Radio Z. Today i made a logo for my podcast Channel Kickin’Europe News. However it is still under contruction. But we have found out what we actually would need to construct: in fact there is even a plug-in to podcast with this WordPress CMS solution. However it also works just by creating a new category!

I want to start podcasting now, without having an i-pod though. Maybe I should wait till the cheap nano i-pod comes out. Odeo is very recommendable and seems to be the easiest solution to start podcasting. I hope i find out how to use it best and add my old audio reports and also add and mix some musical intro and some good music. I would like to create a new channel called “KEN” or “Kickin’ Europe News“. And have mainly radical and alternative news translated from community media outlets in Europe, like especially Germany and Britain, because of language knowledge.

This morning I got a visit by police. I was still in my pjamas and confused the policeman with the postman bringing me new exciting documentary films, as both wear dark blue uniforms. How very embarrasing. Anyways, apparantly they are looking for someone who would have to appear in court in relation with something more or less G8-y or something like that and who gave my address as a bail address. My reaction was very “Haeh?”, till I actually found out what the person there wanted, but I am actually still not clear what exactly was going on. Luckily enough I had a visitor then who helped me out a bit, because all these “No comment” and legal guide thingy’s actually don’t really tell you what to do in such situation where you might get somebody else in trouble or yourself in trouble by being just stupid.

The Knowledgelab in Lancaster was fantastic. The organisation was perfect. The food and accomodation was free and the facilities flawless. There was lots of entertainment offered from a gig of the anarcho-folk band “Seize the Day” to more arty-groovy-techno VJing on Friday, and for the non-party people it was possible to stay and chat in the pub, which would have also offered fantastic food, too. There were quite a lot of Indymedia people and in some sense we probably took over the alternative media, although other workshops were also running in the media space, such as about Creative Commons and Licences, and Salsaman (one of the creators of Dynebolic , the multimedia Linux distro) presented his new software programm LiVES, a video editing program, Mick his Clearer Channel grassroots video distribution project, and some artists from Chicago their 60ies video archiving art project.

Fluffy’s condition has well improved. we went to the vet on Friday and the antibiotics saved the day. Instead of diarrhoea, (s)he has now constipation. I am so happy Fluffy is well again and rotating in the hamster wheel. Fluffy is a fitness addict now, it seems. I hope to soon post a picture of Fluffy, but officially Fluffy is not yet tame and can only be held without struggeling when feeling ill. Otherwise it is a quick running little cute intelligent beasty squeezing into inaccesible corners.