We were asked to take a quick survey called the “International Podcastersurvey” earlier this year, and they are happy to present some of the basic results. They are available in a PDF here.

The most interesting thing from our point of view, is out of 1084 private podcasters only 78 were from the UK. That’s about 7%. We are glad to be part of that 7%, and it helps build on our theory that there are very few podcasts coming from the UK.

In other news, Jalada is back from vacation in Cyprus with Elysium (Toni), and is going to Cropredy Folk Festival in a few days. After that, hopefully we will find some time to do a show for you all!

Also, quick props to Alexander for emailing in about a cool DNS thing, which we will definitely be mentioning next show.

Just a short video from the LAN that was at the beginning of this week, sorry if the encoding is naff or it doesn’t work or something. I went from DV AVI to AVI using SUPER of all things. I hate encoding video I’ve made myself. I don’t mind transcoding…but encoding…blahhh.

Anyway, enjoy, it’s really short.

Click here to download (20.8MB)

Scratch that previous post. Episode 41 will not be released unless we feel productive. Thus, Life in Hex is going on holiday for a while, as Jalada is going on holiday next week for just under 2 weeks. Then he is back but goes away again briefly in August for his birthday. So next ep will be ‘When we are ready’ (in true Blizzard fashion)

Updates as always on the site and IRC. Have a nice summer! See you sometime in August!

Episode 41 is going to be recorded Monday 16th July if all goes well, and will be released later in the week (Wednesday 11th or Thursday 12th), which is just a few days behind schedule.

After that, it will all go quiet for a while, Jalada is on vacation to Cyprus from the 23rd July to the 3rd August, which will mean Episode 42 will not be released on time (31st July). Depending on how much time we have, we may record on the 4th August, and release on the 7th August, which will be a week late, although it may be a bit later than that. After that…Jalada is away some more, but we’ll work that out when we get there.

Hope this is OK with everyone Keep on listening and keep on providing feedback! We love hearing from you.

High-Bitrate MP3 (36.0MB) Low-Bitrate MP3 (12.6MB)

Sorry, at first I forgot to include the ID from Shinmaryuu that is mentioned in the show notes and on the show. I have released a new copy of the episode with the ID included, if you have already downloaded the episode via the podcast feed you will NOT get the new episode automatically, you will have to delete the one you downloaded and re-download it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

• Housekeeping:
  • Thanks to Kevin ‘Shinmaryuu’ Money for the intro.
  • Jalada isn’t going to the Pure Pwnage Premiere in London after all.
  • We’re recording earlier + releasing early.
• Life:
  • We’ve both finished our exams, Jalada is playing Lord of the Rings Online.
• Tech:
  • Setting up your own DHCP and DNS servers for home usage - an exercise for the listener. Mentioned are DHCPd, BIND, Dnsmasq, DNS at HomeUnix tutorial. Also check out the Wikipedia articles for DNS and DHCP.
• Gaming:
  • The Spore date has not been pushed back to 2009.
  • THQ are making a Warhammer 40k turn-based strategy game (called Squad Command) for PSP and Nintendo DS, also announced a WH40K MMO.
  • A Sonic RPG has been announced to be in the making by Bioware, and it’s gonna be on the DS!
• Anime:
  • Sefran reviews the Lucky Star anime, and gives it overall 7/10.
• Plugs + Shouts:
  • Shouts to Prowen for reaching level 70 on World of Warcraft with his Tauron Warrior.
  • Plugs to The Evil Empire, HentaiPalm forums (Ed: Excuse me? How did this one slip through?).
  • Music from the Poptart Monkeys (MySpace) with Go Away. Thanks to music.podshow.com for this.