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Big changes under a New OS, Scary Fun Coming this week

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So I took the plunge in work and at home and upgraded to windows 7 for two very different reasons. In work I need to test the software students might come in with, and our design application had a notoriously bad time prepping versions for Vista. So this time around i wanted to do a blanket test to see what might happen to the different high end applications we run. At home the machine was in dire need of a refresh. And this staved off the inevitable for now. I’m working on a post to cover what happened but overall I’m impressed in a way I was nto expecting to be.

All of that being said This episode has some scary fun stuff in preparation for Halloween. The usual assortment of costume and pumpkin articles are coupled with some awesome DIY Ideas. Enjoy the feast.

I had an awesome time doing TPN Weekly at the start of this past week.

There is a new contest from Jeffery Powers over at Podcast Madness, Enter the code blogsimple for a chance to win a year-long subscription to Mozy, a web backup solution. Listen to the show for a second chance to enter. Lots of shows are involved and each one of us has a different code so be sure to head over to Podcastmadness.com to see the rest of the gang. Hurray time is running out you only have till October 31st!

Enjoy the show!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff now with more fluff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com
• CaffiNation Approved TPN Weekly Episode 27

Geek Cruft

• Get Serious about being Green, the dog needs to go?
• Spooky Fun Comic Book, Edgar A Poe
• There’s Still Time For DIY Halloween Decor
• Guy On Craigslist Seeks Amputee For Halloween Costume
  • instead of judging the dude, how about we ask an amputee?
• 20 Robot Halloween Costumes
• Pie of Sauron
• “Working” Apple iPhone Costumes 2k of awesome
• iMac Cylon Mask
• Honking Pumpkin
• Self Sustaining Zombie Head
• Hulu to charge for content the real scary thought h/t MAS

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Color Trends: Coffee Packaging
• Vashon Island Coffee Museum Photos
• The Teapot Effect
• Coffee Reviews in plain English
• Hot Cocoa vs. Drinking Chocolate
• Coffee and liver disease
• Drinks exceed legal caffeine limit, what would we do here
• Kellogg’s publicity stunt or waste of money
• Diet Friendly Kirby Cupcakes
• Caffe Inn crazy Espresso Machine design concept

Want to contribute?

Feel free to send in any recipes, reviews or like minded articles and I’ll gladly post it with a link back to your lair!

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Today’s Show:  Joy, Lego, Mario, Carbon Fibre, Carbon Footprint, Gold, Green Tech, Gardens, Helicopters, Pools, Peeps, LEDs, Linux, Pacman, Japan

Before I get down into the show I wanted to again mention how happy I am for my good friends Jimmy and Cathy. As they start their life together I wish them nothing but the best the world has to offer, but know that they already found that in each other.

Today’s show is all about things that make me happy, not really a few of my favorite things but definitely a stream of consciousness show pulled together from stories which struck my fancy, and intrigued me to know more. Sometimes its simply a headline, other times the whole concept spoke to me on some level. I really enjoy putting shows together like this so hopefully that comes through in the final take.

So I ask you to come with me on this fun little adventure as we stroll through he gardens of tech jokes and the glades of  caffeinated dreams. A bit flowery of a description but hey its springtime.

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• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
  
• Web Presence Index www.paulrjmuller.com
• Congrats to Jimmy and Cathy! Again, and Thank you

Quick Hits:

• April 1 is a big day for virus’ Patch your machine
• Countdown to Lawsuit, Lawn Darts return
• Heat your food for camping, but try and pass this by the TSA
• Let it Shine, LED Headlamp theater
• Phantom limbs, and further study
• Collection of Tesla Coil Geek Anthems

Geek Cruft

• Linux Error, Did you mean windows?
• Telecommuting is down, but who could afford and Office Pod?
• Gold bars from Recycled jewlery, for green gold
  
• Physics gone wrogn with Pacman? Almost a great game
• Twitter me from the road, via OnStar?
• Banjo Hero
• Timelapse Garden Camera
• Economy of Space, projector screen is hidden
• A Helicopter Hotel? 5 years of work  lifts off  June 26th
• Bean bags in the pool? Genius!
• I might need this shirt, Rubic’s revealed
• Carbon Fibre is the new Platinum
• See the Music, audio tape as an art medium
• Super mario Coffee Table
• Visit Japan, before the Space  Squids do her in

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• CaffiNation Reviews Foosh Energy Mints
• Largest Lego birthday Cake Ever. Legoland celebrates 10 years
• Birth of a Demon, The peeps are coming
• USb Cup warmer, clock, they just don’t work well people
• R2D2 pepper mill? what can’t he do
• Take a shot out of anything
• Friend Foe or Fuel, you decide

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: Carbon Fibre, Carbon Footprint, gardens, Gold, green tech, Helicopters, Japan, LEDs, Lego, Linux, Mario, Pacman, Peeps, pools