Here is the thing.

I’ve got a friend who works with the blind and partially sighted.  Unaccessible websites drive her (rightfully) potty.

My web design skills are so poor that I’m not sure how accessible this website is for that sort of person, I’m not sure how screen readers and magnifiers cope with the design.

(I would change the design, but I haven’t a clue how to do so in order to make it more accessible).

So I had an idea, one that I don’t think anyone else is doing, and that is to podcast my reading of my posts.

Preferably at the same time I write them, but if I’m writing them at work, then as soon as I get home to where my (new) microphone is.

So if you have trouble reading my site, you can instead listen to me read it out.

So there will be two podcasts, a weekly one where I’ll talk about all different stuff, and this new one where you can get a vanilla audio version of my posts.

The feed for this is http://randomreality.libsyn.com/rss/Audiopost

Obviously I’ll have to fiddle around with it a bit, to get the right settings/file size/format, but hopefully it’ll be a step in the right direction towards making the internet and blogging a bit easier to use for the blind and partially sighted.

Let me know what you think.

I don't publish my referral statistics, so for all those people who use this particularly crap form of online spam.

Don't bother.

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One day you may need an ambulance, or I may meet you in the street - it is then my abhorance of violence will be overcome and I will leave you unable to pick your nose...

It's funny how the niceweather we are having at the moment makes you look at everything in a different, happier light.

Take today for instance - I was sent to a 'Life status questionable' in the street. Now a 'life status qestionable' is supposed to mean that the person who called us doesn't know if the person is alive or not.

What it means in reality is that the caller has either driven past in a car without stopping, or the patient has such an offensive smell that the caller dare not get close to them.

So I rush to the scene, and find an alcoholic sitting in the street. Around him are his four alcoholic friends.

the person who made the call is nowhere to be seen.

"He's just tired", I'm told by one of his friends.

"Why's that?", I ask.

"Well, he's just walked from Whitechapel", Whitechapel is about 6 miles away.

"Oh", I say, "No wonder he is having a bit of a sit down".

"This'll help him out", says one of his friends giving him a can of Special Brew.

The ambulance crew turn up, and we all have a little chat on the corner of the street - everyone is as nice as pie, and no-one is really injured.

I know that I should be annoyed (waste of ambulance time and resources, waste of lives on behalf of our alcoholic friends), but it wasn't really their fault that an ambulance was called.

And the sunny weather just put everyone in a nice mood.

Long may it last...

Of course saying that nice weather means that young men drink long into the night, and then beat each other up