This Site Has Moved.

26 10 2008

Some time ago I needed to host Your Story outside of wordpress.com primarily to publish the podcast.

This is the main site.

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To see all the wonderful people that I have meet and hear their stories please come over to YourStoryPodcast.com that’s where it’s all happening now.

I look foward to sharing Your Story with you.





Your Story Ep 5 : Rod, from Stolen Generation & Prison to Art & Music

26 01 2008

Welcome To Episode Five of Your Story.

To listen to the podcast please go to Your Story

Today is Australia/Invasion/Survival Day and coincidentally I have a poignant theme.

Rod is a local in my area and when I asked him to tell me his story he just went off on the subjects that impassion him. I had to ask him to stop until I got my recorder as I found that he really had something to say about Australian society and our ill treatment of the native Aboriginal Australians of whom he is one.

Happy Australia Day

Born in Western Australia and adopted by Dutch migrants he grew up in Holland only to return to Australia at 14 to prejudice from both the black and white communities and then to fall, like so many, into the cycle of addiction and prison.

He now has a career as a performer and artist, striving to make his world a better place.

This is His Story.

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Many thanks to Rod for allowing me to record his didgeridoo playing for use in this programme.





Your Story Ep 4 : Krissy. Erotic literature with a twist.

10 12 2007

Welcome To Episode Four of Your Story.To listen to the podcast please go to Your Story. Today we talk with Krissy Kneen who is passionate about being a writer with a recently published book of erotic short stories.Have you ever considered the sex life of people outside of the mainstream who we normally don’t think of being sexual due to their life circumstances? Krissys book explores some of these.We also discuss the challenges of being a writer and the sexually secluded upbringing that help her to look in this way at the people around us.Her book is Swallow the Sound and is available from her website eatbooks.com email is info@eatbooks.comTo automatically receive this podcast freely to you, click on one of the links to the left or search in iTunes for “Your Story.”Subscribe freely in iTunes by Clicking here.If you use another Podcast software Get the feed here.Music is from PodsafeAudioOpening track is So Deep by Frenz





Your Story : Ep. 3 Meg, Sol Breads Sour Dough, Mountain Biking & Money

2 12 2007

Welcome To Episode Three of Your Story.To listen the podcast go to Your Story. Today I catch up with Meg Carrigan who owns a boutique bakery specialising in sour dough breads. I’ve known Meg for a few years and we discuss the best bread made in Australia at her Sol Breads bakery.Sol BreadsWe chat about her being into competitive mountain biking where she has the skill and determination to be the winner in her age group and amongst the best of the women overall.I also discovered that she has learnt from losing affluence and having to deal with that and the recovery not only for herself but also for her family and that it’s not just all about the money.To automatically receive this podcast freely to you, click on one of the links to the left or search in iTunes for “Your Story.”Subscribe freely in iTunes by Clicking here.If you use another Podcast software Get the feed here.Odeo Link is My Odeo Channel (odeo/ec31ca48707dbcd0)Music is from PodsafeAudioOpening track is “All That You Said” by Everyday Jones





Your Story Ep. 2 : Eve, Being a child in East Germany, Australian Holiday, Alternative views on Relationships.

20 11 2007

Welcome To Episode Two of Your Story.To listen to the podcast go to Your Story. Today we talk with Eve a German Sociology Student who was a recent visitor to Australia. We discuss her alternative view of relationships that is fundamentally different to the way that we in the West see that intimate relationships should be conducted which many people see as quite confronting. We also discuss growing up in East Germany and her thoughts on Australia.To automatically receive this podcast freely to you, click on one of the links to the left or search in iTunes for “Your Story.”Subscribe freely in iTunes by Clicking here.If you use another Podcast software Get the feed here.Music is from PodsafeAudioOpening track is “Peace Is A…” by Joe Sibol from his “The Great Music” Album





Your Story Ep. 1 : Shannon, the film industry and achieving a goal early in life.

13 11 2007

Welcome To Episode One of Your Story.  To listen to the podcast go to Your Story.In this episode I chat with a young lady I’ve worked with who decided at school to get into the film industry and has achieved it in only three years and now has to consider her future.I also bring you up to speed on how it’s been going for me to get this podcast up and running and some of the frustrations that I’ve faced.Hope you enjoy.To automatically receive this podcast freely to you, click on one of the links to the left or search in iTunes for “Your Story.”Subscribe freely in iTunes by Clicking here.If you use another Podcast software Get the feed here.





I’ve moved to my Own Domain so come on over…

12 11 2007

Yes here it is come on over to Your Story on my own domain. Just click on one of these links  and move on over.I’ll be leaving this site up for some time but all of the information has been moved over to the new site and this is only going to be left up in case someone trips upon it.So don’t muck about just click here and move over.and I’ve got the podcast over there also… TaIan 





Zoom H4 Incompatibility with Leopard

8 11 2007

USB interfaces including Zoom H4 as well as many firewire interfaces are having issues with Leopard.

This was a problem I thought wouldn’t have arisen as a couple of months back I couldn’t use my Behringer firewire interface with OS10.4.10. Eventually I had to go back to OS10.4.9. So I was glad to upgrade to OS 10.5 Leopard thinking that all the problems would be gone which for the Behringer unit is so. However my Zoom H4 is having issues.

Zoom H4

Yesterday I sent this email to a podcast Inside Home Recording

…when I plug in my H4 it shows that it is powered and connected to the Mac but it doesn’t come up on the desktop. Therefore I can’t get any data off. I’ve sent an email to Zoom Japan and they are aware of the issue. So as far as the Apple forums are concerned I’m snookered for the moment. Unless some one can come up with a solution I’ll be forced to download to another machine and burn disks to transfer the files. I may even have to use a PC :-( Until this is resolved…

On Sunday I sent an email to Zoom Corporation and today to my surprise Read the rest of this entry »





Your Story Ep 0.00 : Welcome to Your Story and why I’m doing this Podcast

7 11 2007

Welcome to the first but not quite episode of Your Story. To listen to the podcast go to Your Story.Thanks for dropping by.In this episode I explain my motivation and what I’m hoping to achieve in producing this podcast.On this blog I’ve referenced many times to the importance of understanding the ways of life that others live. By appreciating that we are all wanting a good life, a life of community and communication where we are both adding to our society and our own lives we develop a sense that we have purpose. This podcast is about exploring the different ways in which people live their lives and achieve the things that they have done in their lives to get them to the place that they are today.In this first episode I explain why I’m motivated to achieve what I’m doing and the hopes that I have for you the listener.To automatically receive this podcast freely to you, click on one of the links to the left or search in iTunes for “Your Story.”Subscribe freely in iTunes by Clicking here.If you use another Podcast software Get the feed here.





A Quality Podcast Takes Time to Prepare

4 11 2007

Still I plod away at getting my podcast up and running.

Ever week I think I’m just a half day away from posting and then something comes along to sabotage me. The latest is that after having my sites tidied up so they are separated on my server and the podcast blog is in the .com url I find that I can’t access my blogs as the password doesn’t work and for some reason when I get a new password it doesn’t work either. So I’m hoping that I can get the help again to fix that.

So yesterday I decided to make a new opening intro and I went out and got some sounds on my Zoom H4 recorder, which is a top little unit, but when I get home to transfer to my mac it won’t see it on the desktop so I can’t access the files on the recorder. Bugger! I didn’t have this issue before but now on Leopard, well… Bugger! I’ll just have to wait till apple resolves this I suppose :-(

So still I plug away every week learning more about this technology and get a little closer to being able to get it up and running. One day I’ll have all the issues resolved and I can concentrate on what I really want to do… Make an awesome podcast about Your Story