My oldest son takes after me in this way. We told him that he couldn’t finish this plate of food when he was younger. We went away and came back and he was really sick that night but because he said he could do it, he did.

My dad once told me to take on the impossible projects. If you fail everyone though you would fail so you don’t lose credibility but if you succeed then you’ll be a hero. I’ve always the software implementations on short urgent timelines for that reason but I never plan on failing.

The link is to today’s show (filmed yesterday) - as part of the psychic friends network it would appear!

I do believe, having done a bunch of podcasting now, that everyone (including me) that goes into it, or THINKS about going into it, thinks it’s not much work. So they announce a weekly hourlong show with a panel of five. They produce about 10 shows, and then miss a few weeks, and then there’s always the “apology show”, usually saying “we had some other things get in the way” and “we’ll get back on track real soon”. Usually followed by a few more week gap.

Doesn’t that pattern tell you something about how much MORE work it is than it seems?

Here’s how you can help FLOSS Weekly: find an interesting open source project, find someone who’s willing to take an hour out of THEIR schedule and can talk well about it, and can work to the schedule that Leo and I have for taping (usually wednesday afternoons, minus the one week a month that Leo is taping his TV show and minus the one or two weeks a month I’m on the road teaching). Then email the contact info to me (merlyn@stonehenge.com), and I’ll put them on.

Yes, that’s the work. Yes, it takes work. Yes, I have about five people I’m working right now with ideas. But I also have a day job, and the podcast can’t displace that, because I need to put food on the table.

Sorry for ranting… but you really sound a bit ungrateful for the work we DO do.