An announcement of the winner of last weeks contest, followed by a recording of Web Standards: They’re not just for purists anymore a presentation by Eric Meyer at a meeting of the Tokyo PC Users Group on May 12th, 2005.

Apologies for the typing during the presentation, I was recording with my powerbook mic. 

Speaking of mics, I got a new one.  Can you tell.  Please comment and let me know whether more episodes like this would be desirable or if it was completely boring to you.  Also write me to tell me how much better I sound with the new mic. 

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Yeehaw! Finally we release Episode one of the highly anticipated as yet unnamed podcast by my friend Stuart and I. Akatombo Media will be hosting this podcast and we hope to make it a fairly regularly updated addition to the Akatombo Media site. Topics haven't been completely nailed down, and could end up being just about anything, but at this point it seems like our three main topics are shaping up to be Japan (we both live here), technology (we both live and work in it), and making stuff (We are both longtime tinkerers). This is our first attempt at recording a podcast, and as you might expect there are some rough edges and kinks that we'll have to work out. This was recorded over a week ago, but it took some time to get a website put together and the sound files edited into a proper podcast. To get things going, I generated a site in iWeb and then ported it over to work with the cms that runs the rest of the Akatombo Media site. We'd love to hear your feedback, and if you have a suggestion for something you'd like to hear us talk about, please let us know.

We hope you enjoy the show, and if you know what we should call it, please tell us because we don't, though there are title ideas scattered in subtle places throughout the cast.