PIPA and SOPA votes postponed

As a general FYI and news of the Day bump, The votes for both PIPA and SOPA have been put on hold, it doesn’t mean they are dead, and with wonderful rhetoric like This Gem from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), “But the day will come when the Senators who forced this move will look back and realize [...]

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Abuse of Power

Yesterday wasn’t fun for me. I lost money, and lost a lot of fun. I lost ad revenue from people coming to my tiny little corner of the internet and clicking on an ad or two. Reading a funny post or learning a thing or two. Perhaps listening to the podcast that was supposed to record live [...]

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SOPA / PIPA DNS filtering “off the table”

You want power? You need to fight. You want to negotiate you have to ask for things you would be willing to cut to get what you really want. The biggest problems with the SOPA and PIPA legislation that everyone saw right off the bat was DNS filtering. You force sites off the internet by [...]

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Live From CES with TPN

The CaffiNation Podcast has been running since January 9th 2006, and Since April of 2006 we have been part of the fine folks at the Techpodcast Network. As it is their custom the fine folks at the TPN are winging their way to Las Vegas for CES, the consumer Electronics show. Basically a week long technology festival [...]

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The passing of a giant

Steve Jobs died on October 5th 2011, at the age of 56. The news of which broke not an hour before we started to record our podcast. PodCast… As much as disagree with the association between iPods and podcasts, it’s there. And no amount of Portable on Demand broadcasting can change it. People listen on [...]

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CaffiNation Stats

So the CaffiNation Podcast has been on the Air a while now. Here are the stats, facts a figures I discussed on Episode 500 The CaffiNation was Originally named Caffi-Nation (For Caffeine Nation, but no one likes hyphens) The Caffination Podcast Episode 001 Aired on January 9th 2006. It was horrible Fun Facts about the [...]

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Win a Copy of Duke Nukem Forever

The title pretty much says it all. We here at the CaffiNation are running a fun little contest to give away a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever. This game is a long time coming, over 14 years in the making so we know that everyone wants to get their hands on it!  The Contest Couldn’t [...]

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AFK

What do you do with your time? Personally I spend a good deal of my life in front of a computer screen. Consuming information is an exhausting hobby. More often than not my time away from the keyboard is spent thinking about what news I might have missed or getting pinged by online folks. I [...]

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Japanese Tsunami

As a site that makes its living off of human connections The CaffiNation is a meeting ground for many different cultures. And we here at the CaffiNation would like to express our deepest sympathies for those who lost loved ones and suffered at the hands of this horrendous event. I have made no bones about [...]

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Tumblr, WP, Back to Front

For a while now I’ve been using Tumblr. I tried to direct people to the environment over there because I love the community and the workflow and frankly the design just works. I can use it from my phone with no effort, and people can share the work in a very smooth and easy fashion. [...]

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Trial Run

I’ve been working on a problem for a while now. I love using Tumblr to pass along great links, funny videos and awesome images. The problem is that it fractures my web presence something fierce. I don’t want to have people traipsing all over the tubes looking for information. I want them coming to the Caffination. We like you here, each [...]

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Five Years!

On This Date five years ago I undertook an experiment. I wanted to become a DJ, a radio personality in the new revolution, Podcasting. I had heard others doing it, and I thought I could at least do it that well, if not better. While I might not have set the world on fire in 5 years. [...]

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Coffee Articles that need to stop

We all love a good story. I’m a Tech / Coffee blogger and it’s my job to wade through the tons of fun little articles to bring only the best and brightest to you. Its been going on 5 years now that I’ve done this show, written this blog and read these articles. There has [...]

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Delay of Game Penalty

Hello formerly loyal listeners of the CaffiNation Podcast, I hope you’re still out there. So By now you may have noticed we missed two shows in a row… this is bad… very very bad. And something i can’t remember having done in a very long time. I apologize. I can only offer the bags under [...]

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Summer Of Podcasts II Week 1

So the time has come for the individual event portion of the Summer of Podcasts contest. Basically if you head on over to each of the following shows, each and every single one of them has a different code word for you. Each one of the code words are worth an entry into the drawing for tons [...]

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TPN Weekly 36: Coffee and Podcasting Tips

I Hosted this weeks TPN Weekly, Here are the Show notes below, but the episode is found at Blog.techpodcasts.com Explaining a show like mine is a bit harder than actually producing it most times. I love coffee so I have a coffee podcast, I love technology so I have a technology podcast. I don’t have [...]

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Video is Soooo Hot right now

The Techpodcast network has bee working on a bunch of great things, and one of the most interesting is Techpodcasts.tv, Think of it as a amalgam of all of the different video podcasts on the TechPodcasts Network. Good and varied content front to back and always on. I emplore you to give it a look [...]

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Adopt a Newb 2010

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 [...]

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Delay…

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.

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Stats And Thanks

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 [...]

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Thank you

Thanks for a great year. lets do 2010 up right

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Is it Monday already?

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 [...]

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Slight Delay: Dog Tired

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 [...]

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Coffee and Sickness

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 [...]

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Sickness it Spreads

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 [...]

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Delay of Show

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 [...]

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Delay

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 [...]

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Connections and their value

In the spirit of the Adopt a Newb Day 2008 celebration which is fast approaching I wanted to answer a frequent question I get asked . And I might ask the same of you. What do you get out of Social Media, and Social Networking sites, and how can they help my (insert podcast, blog, [...]

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Where is My Podcast?

I’ve been asked that question several times this morning. Already the hoards of now de-CaffiNation’d people are mounting an offensive offensive, breaking down my inbox. Admittedly I haven’t missed a show in a long time, And this one will just be late. I usually post a note stating that fact beforehand, but yesterday was a [...]

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2 Years in the Making

Its been good, these last two years, doing the CaffiNation Podcast. I’ve had fun and made friends. I can only hope to continue doing so for a very long time to come. Podcasting is about a lot of things, its about your topic, your audience, yourself and your family. But not in that order. Your [...]

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No live show tonight, But I will tape

Sorry folks, the topic I was working on fell through for the live show. I’m keeping what it was close to my chest in case it materializes again but no dice for right now. Things are going bananas right no, hence the Primte photo above. The Boy’s one year birthday party is this Saturday and [...]

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Writing in Sick…

Hi all, In case you didn’t figure it out yet, I needed to cancel the show for Sunday As I’ve been sick for a couple of days, and the last straw happened on Saturday … my throat is now scratchy, raw and red, not conducive to podcasting at all. I would normally make up this [...]

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What is and What shall never be

Alright Dearest Listeners, Caffeinated Do-Gooders, Tech rats and Code Monkeys. It seems mother nature has decided to put the kabash on my Podcasting productivity tonight. What started as feeling a might bit under the weather on Sunday night after my triumphant return from vacation without missing a show has blossomed into the dreaded summer cold. [...]

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Slacker, but not really

Hello there people, dear listeners and friends. I assume you are all wondering why there is no show this morning. I can tell you that this has been one crazier than usual week. I don’t like excuses, so this won’t be one. There are several realities that happened this week. Work was a perfect storm [...]

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Executive Decision: Showing thursday some love

Alright ladies and gentlemen listen close because we have a small announcement. Th CaffiNation Podcast has decided to migrate its location within your workweek to Thursday nights. Why you may ask? Well its a simple matter of logistics. No one likes Thursdays, and we are going to try and change that. To be honest for [...]

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I Got Nothing

Left in my tank that is. The long and the short of it is, was up really late last night working on the CaffiNation Headquarters. Then in a cruel twist of fate the daylight savings time change rendered my 3:00 am night into a 4 am night in the blink of an eye. Not the [...]

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Pocket blogger test

this is a test of the pocket blogger application. So far so good… please pay no attention to the man behind the keypad. thank you that is all Picture added later just for effect this is right about the time my wife would shake her head whilst looking at our child and say something along [...]

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Love is in the air

There will be no show for tonight. There will be a show tomorrow. These two simple facts can be explained by the picture to the right. I apologize for all of the people looking towards this show, and guarantee that the How To podcasting episode will appear on the morrow. Complete with download links to [...]

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Brand New Addition

Hello All not much time to do this but wanted to let people know that as of 5:02 PM monday evening there is a new addition to the Fam,ily here at the caffination. Paul Robert Jr. Was born at 8 lbs 10 oz, and 22 inches long. Both mom and baby are doing fine, and [...]

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CaffiNation – Limbo

Ok so here’s the skinny for those of you surprised by my apparent deviation from the schedule. During the course of moving from one location to another we haven’t yet gotten an internet hookup. nor have we found a way to maneuver my desk into the basement of the new house. The computer just made [...]

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