Left Justified - messing with the web

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.

This is not the sort of post I thought I’d ever publish on this site. I even opened a WordPress.com blog to prevent me dirtying LeftJustifed with my disillusioned rants about the state of the web and those who create it for love, money and power. Their’s no power, that’s more hype; back to the topic at hand.

As someone who utilizes and appreciates the work done by Dave Childs to make this collection of cheat sheets freely available, I believe the issue is relevant to this site and the people who (used to) read it.

Here is my opinion of the current trend in ‘Web 2.0′; expressed in Haiku form:
Permanent beta
All your personal data
waiting for Yahoo
It’s not true Haiku due to the lack of a seasonal reference (and probably other reasons).
Corrected
Please feel free to leave your own in the comments!