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I’m too old for these type of mishaps: Broken Bones and Shattered Productivity

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A wise lady once said “How about getting some sleep?” Actually two very wise ladies said this, My Mother said ti first and my wife has said it more often of late. Eventually not sleeping at all catches up to you, which is what happened last night. So Tonight i get to drop a fun episode onto your ears a day late. But I also get to give you a second helping over at the Techpodcast network as well, since I signed up to do this week’s TPN Weekly.

All of that aside I have a full week of content to write and only so much time to actually get it done.

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 toPodcastmadness.com to see the rest of the Motley Crew.

2009 Podcast Awards: The Waiting is the Hardest Part

Enjoy the show!

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

Geek Cruft

• Simpson’s treehouse of Horror hits 20
• Marge poses for Playboy?
• Blog Design Guide Basics, Free Ebook, version 1
• Google Wave is interesting, Breaking it down.
  • Starting to play with it, breaking all sorts of things
  • Its a really Beta / Preview, what not to expect
  • Many thanks to JC Lamkin and Technically Speaking Radio for the Wave Invite
  • Comprehensive Wave Goodness
  • Wave is RTFM! Help Docs for the Win
• Net Neutrality fight starts to root out the lobby
• Snow Shorts: A Wearable Sled for Kids
• Sled Coffee Table
• Wii Bike, attack of the creeping adapters
• Facebook | The CaffiNation Podcast “Fan” Page

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Healthy Scam or Healthy Bottom Line
  
• Mario Bon-Bons 8 Bit love to the Better than You Crowd
• Poll: Monster Energy Vs. Vermonster Beer
• Vermonster Video : Plight of the Rock Art Brewery
  • Small Aside Rock Art’s Use fo the Kokopelli, is funny
• Vermonster is also a Ben and Jerry’s Flavor, but no one is saying anything about that
• Play with your food  Gumball Foosball

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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If this attempt works you should see a sample of content composed inside of Google Wave. If not you might see blank space, or a horrid green box. This content is so new its not even beta, its preview, just after alpha. Not sure about what Google Wave is? I did a play by play rundown of the announcement, it might give you a better idea of the feature set going to be rolling out.

For the Layperson this means that Not Ready For Prime time is an understatement, there are missing features, possible crashes and a sparsely populated environment.  The funny thing about limited BETA, or trial programs is that EVERYONE simple HAS to get an invite. All the cool kids are doing it…

But this is one of the few times in recent memory where software or a service has been released where the front of the liners are not going to find much joy. People have come to expect a robust offering from software developers, and more often than not the developer used the limited beta hook to bring in the line jumpers and create buzz, this of course backfires when things don’t work swimmingly.

As a passable coder i hope to get to play around with the API and possibly to some other fun things. lets surf this wave and see what happens, I’m also going to need an infusion of bad wave related jokes to keep this going.

Many thanks to JC Lamkin and Technically Speaking Radio for the Wave Invite

Before you ask I don’t happen to have any invites at this point either :-D

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Today’s show has a mix of fun and frowns. While there is a good deal to get excited about concerning our digital future there are also storm clouds on the horizon as they’re always are. The recent Amazon Orwellian kerfuffle has bloomed, some would say mushroom clouded into a larger narrative on the subject of ownership and privacy.

There were so many different takes on privacy and security this week that i decided to devote a huge chunk of the show to covering these stories.

The CaffiNation is also very proud to take part in the Summer of Podcasts Contest Head on over and check out the shows rocking the codeword this week. Week Four is Underway!

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
  
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com

Geek Cruft

• Google Wave Rundown, Invites heading out the door Sept 30th
• Bad Poetry? Hopefully it will get me in
• Amazon kerfuffle in a stark light
• Verizon on your privacy, can you hear us now?
• Tiburon, CA. Will take your picture.
• Nothing to hide? Try Bruce Schneier’s take
• Limited edition data, Care to try Self destructing data.
• If its digital its everlasting
• Gibson’s Agrippa poem
• Medieval battle records now online! Direct link to site (Newspaper failed to link to the site… of course)
• OnStar can shut off your engine, in case its stolen. Potential for abuse? or glitch… yup
• Germany to control your car horn in case of emergency?
• Revamp the three laws? Small problem. No one built them into the robots in the first place.
• Suaron’s Eye to be installed in Hawaii
• Walmart throwing money at environmental footprint database
• LHC pushed back again. 2012 anyone?
• Spark plug break through
• To the moon with Google Earth
• Things your kids may never Know

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• On Tap review of a Coffee cold brewing solution and roasting video / articles
• Sour coffee? wonder how it happened
• Corn syrup or sugar? Can you taste the difference

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Google has a great history of providing interesting and useful products to the web. They plan to continue that with Google Wave. According to Mashable the initial invites to the service will start rolling out by September 30th. I also love the logo.

The video introducing Google Wave is over an hour long so I’ll give you a quick breakdown. Wave plans to further conversations by bringing them into a shared space. Email is 40 years old! It was also built before the web, and SMS.How could conversations evolve in the bandwidth rich present?

This video was a very early demo for developers, in the hopes that the Devs will be able to help flesh Wave out.

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