Now In Color!
This website has been a long white column since day one. It feels like it’s time to change that since everything else is changing. So here’s the opposite of a long white column, a haphazard […]
Not a podcast
Skipping a Beat
Well, I missed the first Saturday of the month again. Do you know what PHP is? No? Consider yourself lucky. PHP is one of the things I use to build most of the websites I’ve […]
Here We Are Again on the First Saturday of the Month
And here I am again telling you, “Not this time, hombre.” I was looking forward to speaking to you today, but some savage bastard a dentist ripped a molar out of my head a few […]
I Got Nothin’
I got nothing to say. Next time, you’ll see. In the meantime, here’s Gemma.
Vanished From iTunes Like a Five Dollar Bill From a Three-Card Monte Table
The fine and wonderful folks at Apple changed the iTunes categories for what appears to be no reason, and when I updated my feed to adapt to those changes I must have changed something else […]
What Did You Do Today?
This morning I did something to this site and broke it. Then I broke it again, and now it’s fixed. I think. What broke was an old (old) theme that I’d built a child theme […]
What Time Is It?
It’s the first Saturday of the month, that’s what time it is, and that means a brand new episode of THIS IS NOT A TEST! Usually. But not today, brothers and sisters. I am still […]
THIS IS NOT A TEST is now on Pandora
Sound the alarm, now you can get your THIS IS NOT A TEST fix on Pandora. You can find it by searching for – you guessed it – THIS IS NOT A TEST on the […]
What a Pain in the Neck
You know how sometimes you tweak your neck somehow and the damn thing hurts for days (and days and days) and you’re walking around looking like Lurch or Frankenstein because you’re moving the whole top […]
New Instagram and Twitter accounts
For your following pleasure. That Google+ link is the same as it’s always been, but you’re not on Google+ anyway, so it’s probably a moo point. You probably should be on Google+, but that’s neither here […]
THIS IS NOT A TEST is now on Spotify
I’ve been trying to get the show onto Spotify ever since they started serving up podcasts, but you can’t just stick your show on there, they have to decide to take it. It’s been so […]
Operators are standing by
I set up a phone number to use for recording interviews, but I probably won’t ever use it for that, seeing as this isn’t really an interview kind of joint (well, okay, with the exception of […]
Please make it a session, not another version
Hi. Remember the beginning of the last thrilling episode, when I told you I was at the end of a week-long head and chest cold? Turns out I wasn’t. I spent another week or so sleeping pretty much […]
New “Studio”
For almost 7 months THIS IS NOT A TEST has come to you directly from my Los Angeles kitchen. Now it will be coming to you from about five feet away from the kitchen, in […]
Why THIS IS NOT A TEST will always be ad-free
The primary goal of many podcasters, whether they have an audience or not, is to MONETIZE their CONTENT. To make money from the podcast. Just this week I read a post from a charming young […]
Schedules are so 20th century
I’ll be here at the New Media Expo until Friday. Usually, by Friday I’ve already recorded the show for the week, but that’s not going to happen this week. You know, since I’m 275 miles […]
Size matters
Turns out I was making the audio files way too large. Twice the size they needed to be. So I’ve remedied that and replaced all of the existing episodes with their thinner and more chic counterparts. […]
Leaving the terminal
This is where the mjp Books THIS IS NOT A TEST podcast will live in 2015. Preparing for takeoff. THIS IS NOT A TEST is brought to you via the magic of the Internet, and with the […]