Big Wide World

i'm doing a favour for my boss, and its ugly.

what it is is that someone did an interview of a famous composer, and they did it in a restaurant or something, on an analog tape, and its pretty bad. you can make out little things here and there, but sooo ugly.

so here's my idea (though i have to wait until i get home sunday to do it, and that doesn't leave much time, b/c i have to have it done by monday for work, but i'm crossing my fingers). for now, here's what i have to do:

i'm going to go through it, get as much as i can. then, when i get home on sunday, i'm going to plug it into my mp3 player, since it has line-in function (basically it'll record any audio from any source). once i have it converted to digital, i'll try to run it through digital software which will hopefully be able to get rid of some of the noise (noice reduction etc). then i'll transcribe it. here's hoping that it works.

also, i'm checking out myjeeves beta, and i'm thinking that i'm going to like it. i can save all my bookmarks to it, so they don't ever get lost AGAIN (kind of like del.icious but more private), and i can save images (sort of like flickr but more mundane research stuff), and save links or web pages of research, put into folders and tagged. i'm just starting to try it out but will post when i look at it some more. the cool thing is that there are some awesome extensions for it through firefox, which makes research and surfing all the easier.