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Jim Dupree: Enthusiast (inexplicably) featured on iTunes
Last week, Tristan and I noticed that the stats for our video podcast Jim Dupree: Enthusiast were through the roof. We couldn’t figure out why. Then, late last night, Tristan called me on the phone.
“We’re featured in the iTunes podcasting section.”
Yup. We’re one of those six big buttons on the main iTunes podcast page. We now have equal billing with my employer, the Canadian national public broadcaster.
This is a big deal, because believe it or not, getting featured on iTunes was the original goal for JD:E. Making the show was secondary to the goal of getting featured. As Tristan writes:
When JD:E started out back in late 2005, we assumed that since video podcasts were such a new phenomenon, we’d almost instantly become a featured podcast on the iTunes page by default, thereby catapulting us into the realms of Internet superstardom… Well, that kind of success just wasn’t in the cards for us.
Well, several years and almost fifty episodes later, we’ve finally achieved that lofty goal. And I have absolutely no idea how it happened.
To whoever out there in iTunes-land decided to feature us… thank you.
(By the way, the latest episode of Jim Dupree is Cribs Enthusiast, which I think is particularly funny, partly because it’s a send-up of MTV Cribs, and partly because it’s a send-up of our pal Phil‘s apartment)
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More Jim Dupree: Enthusiast
Jim Dupree is back in full force for season five. Three new episodes since I last mentioned the show. As always, you can subscribe via RSS or subscribe in iTunes or subscribe in Miro. Here are the latest episodes:
Episode 42 – Jim Dupree: Balloon Enthusiast
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Accessing CBC’s pension website with Firefox
It’s RRSP time, and the CBC’s craptastic Pension Administration Centre website claims to require Windows and IE. Try to log in using Safari or Firefox, and you get this:
The CBC Pension Administration Centre site will not work with your current browser. To continue, you need to download Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2, or higher now.
Le site du Centre d’administration des pensions de Radio-Canada ne peut fonctionner adéquatement avec votre fureteur actuel. Pour pouvoir accéder au site, vous devez télécharger maintenant Internet Explorer 5.5 SP 2 ou l’une de ses versions plus récentes, sous Microsoft Windows.
Thankfully, the User Agent Switcher plugin for Firefox seemed to do the trick for me. PAC works just fine when Firefox pretends to be IE7.
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Back on the radio this Saturday
I make my (triumphant?) return to CBC’s Saturday airwaves this February 21st. I’ll be on both Go (talking about how to beef up your manly-quotient) and DNTO (talking about the unfortunately-named Adolph Fitler).
Check your local listings. Or whatever.
Update: Here’s the audio from DNTO: [audio:http://blip.tv/file/get/Dmisener-misener_adolphfitler779.mp3]
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20/20 Vision
This past weekend, Jenna and I visited the Spectacle eyeglasses stores in the Distillery. Jenna’s looking for new frames, and I’m in need of a new eye doctor. When I asked the guy behind the counter if he could suggest an optometrist near my office, he wrote this down on a business card:
Dr. Raja
416-362-2020
TD Centre
Check out that phone number. I love little details like that.