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Free Coffee, And a night full of energy
Tonight’s live show is yet another in a long line of fun shows we’re trying. If you see something that could be better or some feature you would like to have added please feel free to drop me a line. I love the interaction of the live taping and if you’ve never stopped by we’d love to have you.
This show is a bit of everything and i really felt like we did in fact seize the night. A great crew of people assembled to listen and comment in on the taping as well as host of wonderful tech and caffeinated goodies played a fun part as well.
Everywhere from medical journalism to coffee community’s responsibility was covered. Funny stories hard hitting news, and everything in between.
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I’m sure if you are even passingly interested in technology news you are probably aware that we are once again on the cusp of a big Apple event. This happens every year to some degree. Since the world went gaga for the iPod some time back this means tons of media coverage. Even the morning news shows now tart up a 4 day old story as Tech Bytes and feed it to the masses.
The iPod, the iPhone, iMac, iaM tired of it. Even the i fixture in front of the word speaks less of original thinking and more of branding, and its fast becoming hackneyed
I like a machine that does what it is supposed to do, hopefully with as much transparency as possible and then goes about its business. I have never been one to give in to devotion or cultish following of any tech products. At their core they are purchases to be made, or not. Ecosystems to support, as someone in tech support, and liars. All products lie to you either through omission, or through outright deception. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: apple, Bill Gates, devoted, fanboy, functionalism, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, open source, PC, Steve Jobs, Windows, your rights
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So sleep did not come, and technology has risen up against me
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I have often related a belief held dearly by one of my previous employers. He always said, whatever it is that you do for a living will end up causing you no end of difficulties at home. Meaning if you’re a plumber prepare for a lifetime of leaks, electricians blown fuses are in your future. The Computer guy? Hows about a whole bunch of off the wall nonsense errors and mishaps? Well tonight yet again I feel that pain. Nothing seemed to gel correctly for me. I decided to go with the flow and try and do the best that I could. Windows 7, Apple’s Mice and Missteps, The Nook, The evils of DRM, Disney, legos star war, its mass mayhem here
I had an awesome time doing TPN Weekly at the start of the week, however productivity dropped right after that.
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Tags: apple, apple comercials, free software, lego cookies, lego wedding cake, mac osx, Microsoft, snarky, sumi-e, torrenting, Windows 7, zen design
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Getting hard to see through all this mental fog
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Tonight we’re running on one engine and trying to bring the plane down safely this metaphor might not land at the right airport or even the correct city but by golly we’re gonna try. So I suffer from migraines from time to time. I’ve been through most medical treatments out there some work, others not so much. Mostly a ton of the latter and not to many of the former. They tend to come on stronger when I’m under stress, not saying things are stressful but just making conversation.Tonight’s show is overshadowed by one such migraine and my standard fix just isn’t working.
Despite working under a cloud, or fog as the case may be we managed to find some rather awesome and tasty links to share with the group. From Food tech to Lego Letter, Adobe and Apple to Hulu and the Wii, lots of tech, some fun flavors and as always great caffeinated links.
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Tags: Adobe, Alton Brown, Antitrust, apple, astronaut, Coffee, cs3, CS4, hulu, Japan, Lego, Microsoft, migraine, RiP!, tetris, Wii
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A Rossum of Robots? How Rossom would that be?
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It seems that my entry into the BotJunkie Collective Noun contest was one of the three finalist. I shall vigorously defend my collective noun as the one true choice. A rossum of robots was chosen for its alliterative possibilities, and its historical context.
Today’s show has a ton of great content stretching from Russian UFO’s to Green tech in Fed Ex. We cover a nifty product sent into the podcast to review as well as a couple other finer articles and points in caffeinated living. Some shows are fueled by caffeine, some only scrape their way out the door because of it. This show is one of those. The network was down for a couple hours the pets are staging a full on revolt and its a dark and stormy night… Snoopy is no where to be found
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!Time is winding down to get involved and submit your codewords. make sure you head on over and check out the goodies.
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Tags: bing, coffee wars, defcon, Microsoft, onstar, Robots, russia, therapists, ufo, Yahoo
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Consider this a Little FYI for those of you looking forward to Windows 7, and those who are trying to understand why we have so many issues with compatibility between XP and Vista.
From what I gather in XP, Microsoft let people put files anywhere, programmers, coders, applications, whoever cared to write anything for XP you could store files wherever in the hierarchy permissions and best practices be damned. The same went for how you pulled information from the operating system, access any file you like and go for the gusto! This was great for quick and dirty coding but horrible for security and conformity. When Microsoft laid out the groundwork for Vistathey moved towards focusing on standards, best practices, and security. This caused some issues.
Jumping ahead to Windows 7 after my quick look it looks to be the same. However here is the big change. Vista coughed up a lung when it found files out of place, or programs tried to interact with the OS in a way they weren’t supposed to, it couldn’t deal with them. Programs broke willy nilly allover the place, and the place was a wreck. In Windows 7, a new feature called XP mode will enable programs to work within a sandbox, so they can store files in places where they would like, to a certain extent I’m sure, and then drop back out of XP / Sandbox mode for the rest of the OS to work correctly. XP mode is designed to be an insulated environment which gives you security and functionality at the same time.
Moving forward Microsoft will be focusing on pressing developers to work within API’s, and place nice with the file system. But until everyone is on the same page I think XP mode, whether you understand what its doing or not is goign to make people a lot happier with the next version of Windows.
The sad thing about this whole mess is that Microsoft gets all the blame while the people who wrote sloppy code get to throw a fit.
I hope this little blub goes a ways to explain the issues that are out ther right now, and please if you think I’m off base throw down in the comments.
Hat tip to Chuck for bringing the issue up in the comments of CaffiNation 336 and getting me thinking.
Tags: codeing, Microsoft, programming, vista, Windows 7, windows xp, xp mode
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Today’s Show is brought to you by the letter C, and the Number 5
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Lots of things happening on today’s show, and this is the second show I’m recording today the mother’s Day episode recorded with my Mom will air this coming Sunday morning be sure not to miss it. But for this show we have a ton of great news cobbled together for your listening enjoyment. There is a lot of talk about movies, Goats, video games, corporate mergers, the At symbol and tons of news about coffee.
In other news the weather is starting to effect everyone around here, from the weathermen who aren’t quite as happy about rain events as the used to be to the arks being built on hills all around us. At this point we can hope for sun, or even just a dry day.
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Tags: Amphora, apple, beer, cheese plate, Coffee, ea games, Goats, Google, Microsoft, Noodles, turntables, twitter, wolverine
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Today’s Show: Clocks, Microsoft, Apple, Nintendo, Lego, Zombies, Cameras, Robots, Design, Starbucks and Coffee
A day after people either love being around or can’t wait till its over we find topics that bring everyone together. Walking through a who’s who and major brand name dropping we peek into the stories floating around online to see whats really behind the announcements and how they’re trying to separate you from your hard earned cash.
We’re also opening the show up to suggestions for notable charities and causes that fit into the geek culture or coffee Cruft sections. Help us spread your words. I’m also very excited to explain a new series of articles coming out in the next couple of weeks called Tech in Tough Times, we’re going to be focusing on helping you get the most out of your machine and your software. So sit back, enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated ~!
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Tags: apple, Caffination, Cameras, Clocks, Coffee, Design, Lego, Microsoft, nintendo, Robots, Starbucks, Zombies
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In this collection of news bits we gladly give you the great news items that were either sent in or collected for use in the CaffiNation 218 but we just couldn’t shoehorn any more content in. Witty banter aside these are great fodder for thought. Frequently the things that don’t always make it into the Episodes are the pieces that require more to research or care to be put into the treatment thereof. Still I hope you enjoy today’s offerings.
On today’s Run You’ll see: The Pentagon, The White House, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Xbox 360, Apple
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Tags: anthropolgy, apple, Bill Gates, Government advancements, gps, hud, Microsoft, mirror, The Pentagon, Xbox 360
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On Today’s Show: Hosting, Interviews, Mobile, Spectrums, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, David Bowie, and Ben Heck
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Tags: Ben Heck, caffeine, Coffee, David Bowie, Google, Hosting, Interviews, Microsoft, Mobile, Mugs, Spectrums, tech news, technology news, Yahoo
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