Saved!
God bless the person simply calling himself "Blogger" on the entry below. (He's actually called Paul.) His instructions were clear and concise and they worked! Whilst travelling back from Brighton to London I followed them and was able to rescue Collings & Herrin Podcast Number 12 from nowhere! It is available as of now. (I just refreshed my iTunes subscription and there it was.) Having acclimatised ourselves to never hearing our discussion of the Bullingdon Club, Ant & Dec, Hitler and what we both did on May 5, 1982, aged 17 and 15, it's something like a miracle!
posted by Andrew Collins @ 11:51 PM
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Gold stars for Blogger!!! Woohoo!!
The thing is, Andrew, between your and Richard's blog entries about it, it's already taken on mythic proportions. Whether it's a good or great podcast is irrelevant now. It's risen from the dead and is now Christ-like!
I'm so very tired.
Simon
Hurrah! Well solved Blogger & well done Andrew for your locomotive-based podcast recovery.
Excellent. I had a suspicion that there would be a computer geek who would know how to recover the file. Thank you 'Blogger', Collings & Herrin.
Please keep doing the podcast until one of you either dies, or gets headhunted by Ann Summers to work on their podcast.
Yeah sorry, didn't mean to call myself that, it seems to be the default option on the er Blogger account I set up a year ago to see how it worked and then never actually used except to leave that comment!
I had a crap day at work as well so the fact it's worked has cheered me up too! Thank Gawd you didn't trash the file!
Now surely on curiosity value alone this'll make the top ten in iTunes.
Cheers,
Paul
Fantastic. I love it when the Humans beat the Machines. All Hail the Blogger. Dr Who? Pssh.
Yay - well done that blogger! Give the man or lady a big hand. (Probably a man.)
(Though Rich claims it wasn't a particularly good podcast. Was that just his way of coming to terms with the presumed loss?)
The God of Pod has intervened. Let's hope it is worth His effort. I'm sure it will be.
What great news to wake up to on this cloudy saturday morning (i was promised 27 degree heat dammit, where's the sun?!) so i've just popped over from the RKH guestbook to say well done, hurrah and yippie. You and 'Blogger' are surely geniuses!
Thanks for all the podcasts, Andrew, can't wait for the newest one! xx
Well done - I was going to suggest sending your old Mac to Stephen Fry for him to sort it out.
But for the iTunes downloads you should get one of those 'explicit' labels to attract younger kids.
Lovely stuff!
Just wanted to say the extracts from your teenage diaries was hilarious. Please read out some more.
Oh, while I'm here, my maths teacher always insisted that a circle drawing compass should be correctly called a pair of compasses. I don't think you can get a joke out of that, but there you go.
Wahey, the mythical 'cast! Perhaps if you'd found it but never uploaded it, it would've taken on legendary status and been worth lots in the future... except for the fact your podcasts are free and not physically available.
Anyway, I'm 21 and I have a compass, though I generally use mine for drawing circles. The answer to your query is that the navigation device is called a compass, but the geometry device is called a 'pair of compasses', and calling it a 'compass' is just an abbreviation.
Also, since you mentioned Great Yarmouth, I've been banging on to all and sundry for years that it's a violation of the Trades Description Act and as such, should be renamed Shit Yarmouth immediately. Also, see Weston-super-Mare, which is in no way super.
Yesssss!!!
Richard and I decided that the 12th podcast wasn't as good as the 11th, but the 11th was particularly good, I think. We used this to make ourselves feel better about the fact that nobody would ever hear number 12, but it turns out they will, and have! As Rich wrote in his Warming Up entry, there were/are some funny bits, so we're glad it's out there.
Technical problem! I don't use iTunes or RSS feeds, and prefer to download the podcasts as a straightforward mp3 file. This has been fine up till now. However, when I do this from the comedy.org.uk page, all I get from Podcast 12 is a file which has a size of 143 kilobytes and consists of you and Richard talking for precisely 9 seconds! Is this intentional? How can I get the glorious 49.6 megabyte version? And has this happened to anyone else?
(PS Podcasts 1-11 seem to be unaffected - I can download them at full size without a problem).
It works when I download it from the Sitcom Guide site, Rick. But I've brought your problem to the attention of Mark, the nice man who hosts the podcasts on the site for us.
Thanks for the tech response there, Andrew. Actually I think the problem's with me (it usually is!) and I've just solved it by using Firefox instead of IE. Off to listen right now..
Keep up the good work.
So glad it was recovered, it gives me hope that the writing I lost when Appleworks crashed, might still be lurking somewhere!
I love the bit where Richard tries not to swear. Better than his blog made it sound :-)
This happened to me a few weeks ago & also someone on Richard's guestbook.
I asked help from the friendly chap who runs this site, who gave a couple of suggestions which pointed me the right way.
Try deleting your current copy of the podcast, clearing out your temporary Internet files & downloading again. Hopefully that'll fix the problem.
(For Internet Explorer it'll be something like choosing these menu options TOOLS - INTERNET OPTIONS - GENERAL - DELETE FILES or look up in your browser's help function on how to clear your cache.)
Good luck.
Can I just add that on the same day Paul Moore was saving the Collings/Herrin podcast, his collection of Look-in comics were helping immeasurably with a project I'm working on. Whatta guy!
All hail Paul Moore!
I get occasional insomnia and often listen to podcasts in the dead of night. last night Richard's "F*ck You! I'm nice!" coupled with you cracking up made me laugh and snort out loud. scared the bejesus out of my wife who thought i was having an attack of (to date undiagnosed) sleep apnoeia (sp?).
Quality!
I've recently found your podcasts, and that last one was pretty special. Although, I must stop listening to to them on speakers in the company of my two year old daughter.
Yes, sorry about that, Michael - not really suitable for two year olds! (And sorry for causing marital alarm, David.)
The "What happens under Vegas..." line is absolutely inspired. very well done.
At least you know whose line it is anyway, GD!
Not to sound too anally retentive, but I see you go to the trouble each week of illustrating the week's podcast with a photographic image. The thing is, this artwork never makes its way to the podcast via iTunes or whatever other feed-subscription method other people use. Might it be better to have this photo attached to the week's podcast like most other podcasts? - as it is occasionally referenced within. I'd imagine few people ever see these photos if they don't download directly from the site each time (which I'd imagine most don't).
Anyway, just an idea. Or maybe it breaks the aesthetic you're going for...
Really enjoying the podcasts by the way. (Hopefully) without sounding condescending, I think you're both really hitting your stride now you've gone weekly.
Glad this was saved. Good one. Listened both 12 & 13 today while digging out the garden. Thought 12 the funnier. You're the colleagues I never had.
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