I went to Yahoo, and tried to listen to several NPR podcasts, including NPR: All Songs Considered, NPR: Story of the Day, and Science Friday, because I can't listen to NPR while I'm at work, usually. Unfortunately, every time I tried to access a podcast, I got an error window with the following message: "The audio codec identified by the format tag 55 is required to play this file> To determine if this codec is available to download from the web, click Web Help. Click the Play button to try to reconnect to this stream". Unfortunately, every time I closed that window and tried to click the Play button the chosen podcast would change and the error message window would open up again.
I've been wanting to try streaming audio and podcasts for some time now, but at home we still have a dial-up modem, which can be very frustrating.
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About Me
- MVL
- Milpitas, CA, United States
- I'm a career library clerk. I didn't plan that, it just worked out that way. I know I've driven librarian friends crazy by not getting an MLS. But the reality is that I'm a frustrated artist. I just haven't figured out how to support myself that way, sooo, I'm a career library clerk.
Friends with blogs
Books I recommend
- A Dirty Job (another hilarious Christopher Moore story, this time about Death)
- Blood Sucking Fiends (witty, modern vampire love story by Christopher Moore)
- The Eyre Affair (first in the Thursday Next series)
- Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (by Pratchett & Gaiman)
My lifelong learning thoughts and contract
My goal is to learn everything that I'm being encouraged to learn during the 9 weeks.
The obstacles include my ADD (no, I'm NOT making excuses!), which means I take longer to absorb new information than some people. However, once I learn something, I know it very well, and can teach it to others.
My toolbox includes the speakers that were bought for the computer in the workroom (those earplugs were too short!), the computer itself, Google, and the library intranet.
My resources include the weekly exercises, the task force that was put together to implement this learning process, and also the more tech savvy of my coworkers, who are happy to help me out.
My path to the goal is to tackle at least one of the exercises each week, and make sure I master it.
I'll obviously be checking in to the program at least once a week, though with my learning style it will be more effective if I practice more than once each week, work flow permitting.
1 comment:
Shoot - I'm sorry you had trouble with these podcasts. I had some problems on my work computer too, but was able to listen to the NPR ones. Did you try going through the NPR podcast directory instead?
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