Wow!
The webinar with Stephen Karcher finished a few hours ago, and I’m altogether overwhelmed by the sheer intensity and information-density of it all. There will be a recording available, presently – free for ticket holders and on sale to everyone else. Watch, as always, this space.
For now I want to write about something altogether more trivial, while the big stuff sinks in.
Before the webinar, I did much computer-related divination, to thrash out technical problems as best I could. So let me share one or two of those readings…
For one thing, I wondered how to record the meeting. The internal recorder for the meeting room is good, but working with screen recording software to create a single file would be better. But what about the poor, creaking computer, asked to deal with a temp file of 500MB or something? What effect would it have on the system if I tried to record the whole meeting in [software name here]?
Hexagram 23, unchanging.
Stripping Away.
‘Stripping away.
No harvest in having a direction to go.’
So, not a good idea, then…
But somehow I managed to persuade myself (with the help of a reading that – with hindsight – was probably Yi suggesting I pay more attention to the last one) that if I recorded the meeting in smaller segments, all would be well. Program X, after all, is universally used and praised to the skies by all the best people, costs $300 (I’m using its free trial period 😉 ) , and feels supremely well-designed. What could go wrong?
Ha.
Meeting starts… start program X recording it… and (by mistake, hitting the wrong key) stop it again. Return to room… and I can neither hear nor be heard. The software has cunningly disabled the soundcard completely. Nothing to do but hand over the moderation to Kevin (thank you, Kevin…) and restart the computer.
(Note to self: good idea to take notice of readings, no matter how many sparkling reviews there are for program X.)