Left Justified - messing with the web

A very brief rant about yet another XHTML vs. HTML debate. *sigh*

About a week ago, Jim told me he had an idea. “It’s a web app where the only feature is creating and editing your account.” Being the Web2.OMG pessimist that I am, it immediately made me giggle.

When it comes to these newfangled, Ajaxified Web2.OMG applications, I’m somewhat pessimistic to say the least. It’s very rare that one comes along that I find useful, and even more rare (ie: never) that I find one so good I want to shout its praises to the world. As I don’t have access to a worldwide method of distributing information, I’ll have to settle for telling the three subscribers to this blog.

Last week I had to make one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever faced — to leave a job I truly enjoy and move away from the area I’ve called home for my entire life. The process feels a little like pressing the ‘reset’ button on my life; while I will stay in contact with friends here in Queensland and I have friends where I’m moving, everything else will be completely different. Crazy.

With only seven days until I fly to Sydney, saying I’m mildly excited about the (at least) two day long onslaught of presentations and festivities that is Web Directions would be an understatement in the extreme.

This post aims to provide a simple and fast set of steps non-audiophiles can perform to improve almost any speech recording; especially recordings that were made by running an average microphone into a sound card.

I’m using Audacity for this walkthrough as it is available for a wide range of operating systems and comes at a bargain price.