Busy busy busy

1. I'm back from Prague.
2. My dad's out of intensive care and (we hope) due home this week.
3. New RUR will be posted this week (I hope).
   

The Best Laid Plans...

I'd been expecting to be posting a few notes here about PodcastCon UK, or possibly even a special edition of The Rev Up Review with features from the Con itself.

But I didn't attend PodcastCon. On Friday morning I learned that my dad had been taken ill while on holiday in Tuscany, and is now in hospital in Pisa. He's stable, but still in intensive care after a serious operation.

The Prague trip is still on, however, as I'll be able to stay in contact, and I'll be back on Thursday.

Derek of Skepticality in intensive care

Horrendous news, which I first saw in the Podcast Alley forums: Derek Colanduno, co-host of Skepticality, was suddenly and unexpectedly taken ill with some kind of brain disorder.

I was shocked to read Swoopy's post at the head of the forum topic, and moved to tears by her audio message in the Skepticality RSS feed (this message was subsequently aired in its entirety, and rightly so, on Adam Curry's Daily Source Code).

My thoughts go out to Derek and Swoopy, to Derek's wife Susan and the rest of the family and friends, with my fervent hopes for a swift and complete recovery.

The Rev Up Review First Interview

The Rev Up Review, Number Ten:

• Title: RUR-2005-09-03
• Size: 16.6 MB
• Duration: 36'05"

Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator.

Contents:

• 00.00 Intro music: "Undertow" by Reaman (ElectroBel)
• 00.18 Guest Voice: "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
  
• 00.22 Welcome
• 00.44 Dave's Lounge Public Service Announcement
• 01.58 American Red Cross online donation page
  
• 02.22 Interview with Scott Janssens
  
• 17.49 TSFPN.com audio tag
  
• 17.59 Flash fiction by Scott Janssens: "Strange Girlfriend" and "Paradox," at Escape Pod
  
• 18.17 Firefly Update
• 19.07 The Signal
  
• 19.26 The Twilight Tales Audio Experience
  
• 21.18 Music: Grrrroove V3 by Marco Raaphorst, at the Podsafe Music Network
  
  
• 25.00 The Rev Up Review is a proud member of The Science Fiction Podcast Network
  
• 25.20 Episode 5 of Travel With Confidence (music by The Brothers Femme at Pod Safe Audio)
• 34.17 Send feedback to rur@revupreview.co.uk, or in North America call the RANT line: 206-339-RANT (7268), or post a comment in the TSFPN Forum
  
• 36.05 End

Background music:

• Chilled by Marco Raaphorst. More at the Podsafe Music Network
  

Sorry to make it harder, folks...

A quick note of apology: I've had to delete a few spam comments recently, so I regret to announce that I've switched on this Blogger Word Verification thingy. Which means you'll need to squint at an obscure graphic and type in some indistinct text before you can post a comment here.

Sorry.

Unbelievable

Katrina is a nice name. Hard to believe anything named so innocuously could have wrought so much pain.

In New Orleans and the surrounding area we see the evidence that our lives, so dependent on this condition we call civilization, are based on the flimsiest foundation. We rely on an infrastructure we so easily take for granted, and when it is swept away we are lost.

Please give what you can to the disaster-relief organization of your choice.

Please do it now.