I had a few technical problems during this show that will be sorted out by the next show.
To start with, I forgot that the VoiceOver plugin in Nicecast has to be explicitly invoked each time the application is launched. So I literally opened the show with about 90 seconds of dead air. LOL
Next, I was buffering like… one who buffers a lot. At first I was pissed at my ISP, thinking my upstream was somehow to blame. After some testing, I discovered it was, in fact, my processor. :( It turns out my lil G4-500 can’t MP3 encode on the fly and do anything else at the same time.
For the next show, I’ll use my wife’s iBook G4-1Ghz to stream, and load IRC, notes, web, etc. on another machine. I’ll also load the mic plugin before my show. hurr
Here’s the whole, unedited show archive, flaws and all. You’ll need iTunes or another .m4a player to listen and some patience to download all 42 megs.
If IRC transcripts are your thing, you can view this text file with all the heckling and buffering reports that went on during the hour that the first show was playing.