My worst nightmare has come to fruition... A few days ago, one of my 4 year old, raid'ed internal harddrives decided it had enough.  In the process of fixing this (having to replace both drives), I accidentally deleted a partition in my external back up drive holding all my production programs, elements and even some music.  This caused a massive problem because when a partition is deleted, the machine won't see the drive and all its wonderful data. 

I was able to recover most and I hope all the data which was very time consuming (14 hours) not to mention very stressing on my external drive.  The next step is to do a back up again but I have to get another drive (1tb) to do so (hopefully today). 

So to make a long boring story short and boring... I'm hosed until further notice.  At the rate I'm going, it should not be long but there will be a lot of backing up, reinstalling, reconfiguring, testing and all that happy horse poop.

So, again... (this hasn't been my year) there will be no podcast this week and there is a 50/50 percent chance there will be one the following week.  This has turned out to be a costly and time consuming process so your patience is much appreciated.

Best,
Doc

The response to "win it before you can buy it" was huge and you all got the questions right.  I just wish I could give everyone that entered a copy but I only have five.  The lucky five winners are:

1: Les of Walford, U.K.

2: Neil of Denbighshire, U.K.

3: Tim of Malden, MA, U.S.A.

4: James of Roseville, CA., U.S.A.

5: Sarah of Middletown, MD., U.S.A.

CDs will be sent out shortly.  Congratulations!  ...and to everyone that entered, thank you for participating. 
I hope to do this again.

All Promotional consideration was provided by Capitol/EMI

Check out this freaky coincidence... the link provided has a recording of radioactive emissions coming from Saturn captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.  So basically you can hear what Saturn sounds like... and it sounds like a clip from an early Floyd performance!

Sounds of Saturn

"Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda
And Titania, Neptune, Titan.
Stars can frighten."

This is one of the many hand painted banners that hung from the rafters of Earls Court during Pink Floyd's Division Bell shows back in 1994. The purpose of the banners was to improve the sound and dampen the echoing effect of the acoustics of Earls Court.

They measure 20'x18' and you can see this banner and others in P.U.L.S.E. and Storm Thorgerson's hardcover book, Mind Over Matter - Images of Pink Floyd on page 194.