Merlin,

Can you listen to it from a mac? QuickTime won’t play it.

Tnx!

It’s in RealAudio.

I thought mms:// is windows-media? mplayer seems to have problems too…

I’ve never been able to listen to a podcast from NPR. And I have a lowly pc at home. =[

Okay, I might be stupid, but I’ve been listening to the NPR audios for a long time now— are they known as Podcasts?

I am impressed at Paul for going back to basics. But peeps need to be able to control themselves. If the Internet is distracting, don’t log on. You’ll have to evolve your thoughts to survive in this world. So that means adapting to technology. I used to be one of those “people” who made fun of cel phone users, until I discovered it myself and have become what I made fun of. But now, my relationships are better, and I stay in touch with my older parents who live far away from Los Angeles. But someones my pocket phone gets overwealming. And I turn it off knowing it will always be there.

But doing what Paul Ford did? I don’t think not!

I did a post of this on my site— http://organizingla.blogs.com/organizingla_blog/2005/11/getting_back_to.html

Merlin, you are brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

If you click on the listen link, you should be given a choice of Real Audio or Windows Media, I have the official Windows Media Player for OSX Installed from MS, and it loads quite nicely, I do use the g4 Optimized Firefox builds, so I don’t think it has any default association for anything, and I just told it to play using WMP. YMMV, email me if you have any questions, those Linux users out there, you can, I think, convert Real Audio to MP3 or such with Gstreamer, any willing to convert it and post it should or I suppose, someone using WMP on OSX and AudioHijack could do similar. Cheers

What a jerk. :( Poor man who can not control him self. It’s like a smoker who sees a pack of sigaretes and can not say no - computer addict nothing else.

Well, to be a computer addict is a problem. I do not blame that.

But what I see a problem is that he is trying to confince other people that this is not his personal problem but everybody have a problem like this.

Yo Mac users - click on NPR’s “Help” link and it will tell you how to make RealPlayer files play in RealPlayer an not QuickTime. Thank you NPR for doing this.

As for Mr. Ford, the poor man must spend hours at the magazine rack. And I can’t imagine his adult ADD when his local ‘general store’ upsized to a ‘supermarket’. “What? There are two choices of cold cereal?” I’ll alert the sheriff.