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What is wrong with me? I have a bad habit of coming up with ideas in the bath. That isn’t such a bad thing. Some of the ideas are not bad. I occacionally have a “Eureka!” moment there too. If I have been struggling with a solution for an audio issue or an internet issue, a little bit of code or a layout for a web page, I find sometimes I am soaking away and suddenly it comes to me.
But then I have a new idea, a nice simple idea, one that will only take a couple of hours and might be just a little entertaining. So one day about two weeks ago I was thinking about the Ar Ais Aris festival and about how cool this music event really is. I am proud of my home town, the music of Donegal and of the people I grew up with. I am forever telling people all about what it is like to grow up in Ireland and just how idyllic my childhood seemed to be.

So it was an obvious idea to create a podcast. One that would highlight the good things about home, about my friends and especially about the festival. But just like me, I couldn’t let the simple idea stay simple. I started playing with the various new forms of streaming, pulled out wires and old webcams and video cameras. I searched through old boxes and found microphones and other bits and pieces. I felt like someone from Mission Impossible or that McGyver show. I could almost hear dramatic incidental music in my ears as I started to piece this whole thing together.

Again that is all well and good, except that now I have quite a few subscribers to the audio podcast and a lot of people are watching the archives of the video-cast. So now I have to make them, I have to get on with creating new shows a few times a week and it takes up a lot more time than my original idea of an occasional audio podcast.

But it is worth every second to do this. I have found something fun, entertaining and informative to bring to you. I have now done at least 4 video-casts and two audio podcasts. They are up and despite having my old craggy Irish face in them they are filled with information about Ar Ais Aris, Irish music, Donegal and especially my lovely home town of Buncrana.

So I may continue to be the “great unwashed” but I plan to keep doing these podcasts right up until the festival and with luck and some techy magic I will be doing them live from Buncrana in March. So thank you all for supporting me and my crazy ideas. You will have more soon.
Slan go foill

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