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Happy 9-09-09 – Thank Goodness for the Apple Event, right? What a long, fun weekend I had. State of the Local Podcast group – Possible new podcast relationship – Didn’t get hit with Wordpress Hackers, but had an interesting Facebook conversation with Andru Edwards – first month of Day in Tech History

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Google and the EU
-Is Google Monopolistic?
Intel Lynnfield Processor
C64 for iPhone – GONE
Palm Pre Price Purge
Nokia and Siemens Merger
Alzheimers Discovery
Wolfram Alpha and Bing
Best Buy Trashes Linux
10 Web Apps for Teachers
Old Guy CEOs Rule
Is this Facebook App a Virus?
Facebook Makes you Smarter, Twitter: Not so much
Word Continues
Move Mouse, coffee stays warm
Finding Waldo

II
Seth the Blogger on AT&T
App Store Loosening up?
-Flickr is an iPhone Application
iPhone Etch a Sketch Case
Factron Case

QOTW – Would you go back to AOL?
YouTubin: MyFreeCopyright

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Can AOL Come Back?
YouTube Movie Project
10 Technologies taken from Animal Kingdom

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1999 – Pyra Labs launched a program called “Blogspot” that would let people run their own blogs. The program was bought by Google in 2003, and changed to Blogger in 2006.

What is most interesting about this tidbit will be that I don’t mention it in the Podcast. It was brought to my attention after the weekend recordings were made. Nonetheless, it is what brought us to a Social Network world of today and needed to be talked about.

Stuff you WILL find in the podcast:

• IBM New logo
• Yahoo and Alibaba
• First professional auction of Atari Memorabilia.

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Day Off - Sort of
A late Ramblings this week as I decided to stay offline last week. It was a long week and I was playing all weekend. It has been a while since I last took more than 24 hours off a computer, so that is a big feat for me.

HP Tech Forum

I had a fun time talking and working with Andy McCaskey and Kara Karsten with SDRNews. We had such a blast. We also put forward the mobile interview booth rig. We call it the “MacGyver” rig. Nonetheless, it was connected to uStream and we were able to conduct a few interviews for the event. Check out all the info on the Twitter log at #HPTF.

Great to meet some new bloggers: Shane Pitman of Neowin, John Obeto of AbsoluteWindows. We had a great week along with Halley, Tom, Calvin and Rebecca from HP and Buzzcorps.

Fryes at Vegas

Also got to go to Vegas again. While we didn’t run around town as much as with CES (everything was contained in Mandalay Bay), we did venture out to go to Fryes. It’s actually my first time at Fryes and I was pretty impressed. Of course, it was Vegas, so the store has a big slot machine up in it’s store front and stacks of coins as barrier posts. The inside was very big and complete. Andy had to get a new scratch drive since the one he brought died. We got what we needed and headed back to the safe Mandalay Bay

Mandalay Bay

Wow. This is a city contained in a building. That is, if you have the money for it. My room – which I call the “Bob Newhart” room – was decked with all the amenities. TV in the bedroom and the bathroom. You can connect an external device easily and be watching a movie while soaking in the tub.

The casino area was always hoppin. There were bands both on the “Sushi Pop” and “House of Blues” stages. Restaurants all over the building. A small walk and you are at “theHotel”. They even have their own beach – where we watched the Beach Boys play a set. Well, it was a short set for me, since I had a flight to catch.

Podcast on the show floor

I had the unique opportunity to record the show from the HPTF Expo floor. It was great because I didn’t have to set up a rig, do a show, rip it down and go to another area to post. I would also like to thank Simon Calder for helping out with the show notes so I could focus on other things.

What I got out of the show

Of course, there were a lot of things I have learned from this event. I have run server rooms before, but I was a little out of touch with the current technologies. FCoE was the big one I learned about. Also building a server is a lot different than before. Greener, more powerful and reliability were the best parts.

The Keynotes were just amazing. Learning about how these big companies are working on green technologies is amazing. Dr. Michio Kaku and his views for the future were amazing. A “Smart toilet” is definitely something to get excited about.

The Weekend

I got back to Madison at 8 AM on Friday. It was a long trip (5 hours, turned into 7 due to timezone changes). What was worse was on the trip back, I was not really impressed with the airline I flew. The one thing I noticed is they were not really friendly.

An example: We flew through a couple storm fronts during the trip. Most airlines would say “This is the Captain. We are seeing some turbulance, so please remain in your seats and buckle your belts. Thank you.”

The airline I was on? Well: “Please buckle your seatbelts”.

The airline also had screens drop from above. While I would normally invite this, I was in a evening flight. I had difficulties sleeping when something like a video monitor is playing. Of course, I didn’t pack my sleeping mask. Therefore, I was stuck watching “Confessions of a Shopoholic”. While other people loved this movie, I didn’t find it as interesting.

I got home around 9 AM, in which I proceeded to collapse on the bed for a couple hours. Woke up, caught up on some work I missed during the week, then headed off to play a show. Since it was out of town, I had to pack for another night away from home.

Band Gigs

Saturday was a day of playing. We played a friends graduation, then it was up to the Dells for our regular show at the Baja bar. There were 4 different Bachelorette parties that night and they were not in the Baja at the same time. As one party left, the next one showed up. Crazy.

New Guitar

While we were in transit to the Graduation party, we stopped at a local music store. There, I found a used Acoustic / Electric guitar. I picked it up as a spare for future shows. It needs some work to it, but not much to make it ready to play out.

Lazy Sunday? Not.

Of course, the day started out with this post. A quick breakfast, then it’s getting things ready for the week. Have to work on “Week in Tech History”, then I have to figure out how to put together the new video studio. Lots of soundproofing to do.

I suppose I should get to it. Thanks again to everyone for a great week. How do you top that?

The Dell Recall Battery is in the mail. It will finish the Dell D600 laptop project. I won an Award! – FAWM Showcase – Moving in progress – Buying Totes. Looking for an Adobe Director programmer – We are now on Stitcher.

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
D-Link CAPTCHA
Zune Ad
iPhone Specs Leaked
Sling iPhone App Approved!
Jesus App Denied
Journalism Students Must Have iPhone – iPod
New York Times Reader – $15 a month
CNET needs Android Blogger
Intel Anti-Compete Fine
Viewsonic Eyeing 3G Phone
Verizon Netbook this week
Dell Mini 10v

JOTW -  How many

Call the Hotline if you have a Tech related Joke.
Turn Your Tech Blog into a Podcast

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Tighter Cybersecurity Compliance
-Read the Standards
Piracy Cost $50 Billion – Put yourself in a programmers’ shoes in reading this

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QOTC – Should Facebook censor?

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Holocaust still on Facebook – Crossing the line?
Cisco Helps Build Your Cloud – Make your Cloud happen.
Change the World – Social Media is Kewl.

Extras:
MP3 Handlebar Speaker
Latest iTouch Clone
Hawk WiFi Robot
The Perfect Cup of Coffee
Cigar Box Amplifier

YouTubin
Zune Commercial

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During CES, they gave both reporters and bloggers chances to catch up and upload their content through the respected lounges. During the week, these lounges uploaded tons of reviews, audio comments, videos and a lot more. The fine folks at CEA even provided computers as to work from (if needed).

We take a quick walk through the Blogger lounge.

Bill and Jon talk about the Blogger area

We stopped at the NBC Universal Bloggers area and Andy McCaskey talked with Jon and Bill about the Sharp Blogger area. Jon talks about the design of the booth and Bill talks about how NBC Universal has been detrimental to CES.

Blogging at NBC Universal

Best part is that I got to sit down and catch up on my blogs. The connection was fantastic!! We had the Backchannel of the interview up in a matter of minutes.

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Geekazine is looking to expand the Geekazine Quickcast – a Podcast produced multiple times a week including ‘The Week in Tech History’, ‘Get Certified’ and ‘1 Topic’. Each show is listened to by many every week.

I am looking for individuals that Blog on technology and want to give their Blogs a new medium. By being part of the Geekazine Podcast, you will also introduce the Geekazine audience onto your site.

Simply contact Geekazine of which Blog you would like to turn into an audio version and I will do the rest. I will review the blog and see if it will fit with the Quickcast.

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Wow, What a day. After 3 days of Grunting the floor, it really catches up to you. I feel good, but at the same time I am completely exhausted. I’m sitting at CNTR STG here which is a Blogger’s port put on by HP. Since the bandwidth at the Monte Carlo is horrible, we have to do our uploads here. I suppose it’s good because this is the place where I’ve met my fellow bloggers.

I did something a little different with the Back Channel as I used the X-shot to put the camera about 3 feet in the air. The result wasn’t too bad. I’ll try to get the video up ASAP, but I am still 2 days behind on that.

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This week we sit with Dan Tynan, a blogger for sites such as Computerworld and discuss how YouTube is affecting a candidate. We also delve into the mass amounts of user-made content is out there and how it can help or hurt a campaign. Finally, we talk a bit about Hulu, Saturday Night Live and the impact it has on parodying the election.

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On this day: Phi Day, Michael Spindler CEO Apple (93), Terry Semel Steps down Yahoo (07)

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I have created a new group over on Facebook – Wisconsin Bloggers and Podcasters. This is a group for anyone that is a Blogger and/or Podcaster in the Wisconsin and surrounding area. Anyone can join, though.

The idea is to get us all together and possibly start a monthly meeting. Also create a network where we can promote and help each other.

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