So it has been 5 years since i first came up with this concept.the idea behind the celebration was simple, more than any other career choice IT can be learned on the go, provided that there are people willing to teach. I owe my career and my livelihood to the countless techs forum posters and how to authors out there. A degree in anthropology can do many things but teaching you how to run an apache web server isn’t one of them. So this is a chance for those of us with some small amount of knowledge to give back to the community.

I Picked April 15th, tax day to pay your karmic dues as well. The original tagline was Pay your Taxes Pay your due. Teach a Man to Tech. It has changed over time to a yearly theme. This year is Teaching and Sharing Tech, hopefully focusing on bringing and creating more pieces of usable information for anyone no matter their level of expertise.

You can either pick an individual to take under your wing for the duration. Or you can commit to writing a guide or how to on some common topic. Last year I write a guide to improving your blog through good design. Either way blog about it, share your experience, because only through constant sharing can we ensure the next generation of techs have sufficient resources to teach themselves, or at the very least they know who typo ask for help.

Help us combat the image of the grumpy tech, and the cranky helpdesk worker. Lets fill the space with good and helpful content instead. Feel free to use a graphic and drop me a line if you would like to commit to the Adopt a Newb Celebration for 2010, Graphics after the Break.

Tag Any Posts or guides with AaN10 to get included in the summary. You can also link back to this article to provide a directory of currently active Helpful projects

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Usually on the night of the Superbowl There is no CaffiNation.  Unfortunatly this year not because of a party en mi casa,but rather a lack of the ability for coherent thought. My Brain is fried from a rough weekend without much sleep. So I’m turning in early tonight to give you my best tomorrow.

Original Logo of the Show, Complete with Hyphen

Thanks to everyone who supports the show, and has listened in over the years. this is a beautiful and awesome community to be a part of. The people I have met and the stories and laughs we have shared over these past 400 episodes are priceless thank you.

Here are a few quick stats about the show.

First Episode January 1st 2006

• 416 Unique Shows, Announcements and Audio content files put out
• 8.6 GB of disk space to hold all that awesome!
• Total Run Time 10 days, 16 Hours and 7 Minutes
• Over 200,000 downloads of the show since November of 2006
  

  Long Standing Red / Blue Logo Year 1 & 2

Memorable Moments

Episode 001, Horrible voice work, but a good foundation and the same intro has been used more or less ever since

Episode 018: First Episode pst on www.caffination.com, MC Frontalot for the Music

Episode 021: First Episode as a full part of the Techpodcast Network. First Introduction of the Adopt a Newb Day Celebration, Every April 15th!

Episode 024, New mic and a better sound, Sultry and Dulcet tones grace the airwaves

Episode 068, First Episode as a New Father, and First Co-host with Paul jr on the show. Also the First Sponsored Show.

Last Logo Iteration before today's

Its all been fantastic since then. Both of my parents have been on in the last year for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day respectively, My son has tried his hand at some vocal work too. I can’t wait to get the new ideas under way and make more awesome content for all of you. So what would you like to see the show try next?

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated!

Its been a long year. Much more so than the 365.25 days normally would. I’ve been through a lot personally from highs to lows and All the while kept talking and producing new shows week after week. Through broken bones, cancer scares, surgeries, various sicknesses and tiny joys this year has been trying to say the least. But we’re ending on a high note with the news that a new baby is coming in July, that gives me 7 more months to set everything up for the podcast newb!

It has been a great ride and I can only  hope that you’ll stick around to see where we go in the future. I have a lot of ideas for what might be, and what hopefully will happen.

Thanks everyone who listened, read and joined in on the discussion for this past calendar year.

Stay Caffeinated and Safe for the new year.

A normal weekend across the Muller household, CaffiNation Lair, lots to do and we had fun along the way. However Isat down to watch the Eagles loose the the Cowboys yesterday and fell asleep, at 9 pm. I woke up at 1am, and quickly realized that I should go to bed instead of trying to push an episode out at that late hour. So there will be a make up show tonight.

Ok I Lied again… really ot that good at getting things done right now. I’m shooting for resuming “normal” production on wednesday night

With the past couple weeks I’ve had I have fallen behind on many things, chief of which being sleep. And I’m sure You’ve heard that whenever it rains it pours, well the dog has decided to exaberate the problem by keeping my up and ruining the overall quality of the little sleep I have been getting. Read more about it here. Its funny in retrospect, even if I was laughing at the time.

But as is such the show will be delayed by one night, similar to the Episode 376 delay, but with a little forethought to warn you of the delay.

So Episode 377 will be out Thursday Night and We’ll be back on schedule this Sunday.

Thanks for your paitence, and join me by attempting to stay caffeinated!

A short little post about how coffee affects me when I’m sick. I keep mentioning the issue on the show so I figured I’d give a quick rundown on what happens, why I avoid it and my recent find.

Usually when I get sick my throat / voice is the first thing to go. Now for a person whose hobby is quite voice centric this isn’t a very good thing. But beyond that I drink black coffee, which is an acidic beverage and tend to tear my throat up when I drink it. Coffee, and caffeine by extension is a mild diuretic as well. Vocal folds work on moisture, you do the math. I’m not sure if it just plays havok with the mucus membranes or not, but I end up feeling worse for wear after a cup. tea on the other hand doesn’t do this, despite the caffeine.

The recent find was a suggestion by MAS of Coffeehero to give a shot of espresso a try, and you know what it worked! No ill effects on the throat, after I let the shot cool off a bit.Perhaps its the smaller serving size, refined extraction or richer beverage. I don’t know But i know I’ll but hacking up a lung and well caffeinated at the same time from now on.

One of the best things about doing a solo show, ie not having co-hosts is that if the show doesn’t turn out correctly I always know whose fault it is. That also happens to be the worst thing, there is no one else to shoulder the load if I go down for the count. If you remember last episode i was taking care of a sick child, and a sick wife. Well they infected me. I spent the latter part of Friday as well as all of Sunday in a fever induced haze, which has had the lovely side effect of destroying my voice. I thought about doing an interpretative mime for the show… but one quick glance in the mirror made me realize the Internet is not quite ready for that.

I’m rescheduling the show for Monday evening, trying to read three short books aloud to my son tonight was torture, but a wonderful pain at that, It also made me realize bantering on for 30 minutes about tech and caffeine just wouldn’t happen. So I apologize for the second such delay in a single month.

Hello All,

I hope your holidays are going well and the season is treating you right, So far things have been going quite swimmingly however I seemed to have come down with a head cold. Deep in the throws of no small amount of Sneezing, coughing and feeling like i do i decided it would probably be better for everyone if i put the show off tonight, better for me to get some sleep and better for your delicate earlobes. Thanks in advance for your understanding and I’ll see you all Monday night.

~ Paul Rj Muller ~

Greetings,

Returning home from work today i had every intenton of starting the show right on time at roughly 10PM. However my body had other plans for me, and i think i should listen. I wasn’t feeling 100% all day something seemed just a bit off, without getting into the gory details I started to get a fever, chills in my 75F house. The whole thing started rapidly and the long story made short is I’m sitting under a fleece blanket right about now, longing for the sweet release of sleep. While I could soldier on, and I have in the past. I think the best thing for both my body and my family, and quite frankly your ears at this point is to bag the show for tonite. I’ll try again tomorrow, same bat channel and hope the feeling has past.

Thank you for your understanding and you continued support for the CaffiNation Podcast, I entreat you to check out some of the Recent articles that I have written. They will be discussed at length on the next show. Thanks for understanding and Stay Caffeinated.

~Paul