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Apologies ahead of time for the quality of my voice today

I’m very stuffed up. Didn’t think it showed as much as it did. After editing the show it sounds pretty funny if i do say so myself. think clothespin on the nose.

So the caper went down like this the wife baked cookies today, not just any cookies but chocolate chip cookies, thus starts the descent into madness around the holidays. I’ve been working on the lair most of the weekend including a goodly time today, so a stolen cookie is my reward. They may be being saved for a family function later on this week, but they tasted sooo good.

By the by… stolen cookies topped with uncooked cookie dough is a lesson in love… right there on your tongue, it dances. But you came to learn about tech and all other manner of fun things. I have a snippet of tech a little bit of deals and a couple morsels of caffeinated hijinks to saite you for the week.  This episode is dubbed the sneaking cookies, because that act of theft powered the show into the wee hours of the morning.

The Podcast Madness continues, they’re now giving away an Epson Artisan 810, on a spiffy new site no less. I love Epson printers, you simply can’t beat them for clarity and brilliant colors, and these loons are giving a good printer away scott free. Well you do have to listen in to our show and the others in the mix to get you chances. Last chance to enter till November 25th

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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
• Congrats to Paul & Kim on my new cousin Connor.

Geek Cruft:

• Presenting, my presentations
• NASA live online launch was awesome
• NSA helps design windows 7 security should we worry?
  • Cattle mutilations are up…
• Google puts out more information on Chrome OS, debuting 2010
• Taun-taun costume… scary awesome
• Stormtrooper shoes?
• 20th Anniversary Pump Sneakers
• Plane lands in LAVA
• Smokers denied service at Apple Store
• Black Friday deal page, so far

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• A chocolate chip cookie dunked in coffee is pure heaven… that is all
• US closer to a ban on Caffeinated Alcohol
• Caffeinated Alcohol industry responds
• If caffeine fights cancer, then the FDA is endangering me?
• 25 innovative coffee cup designs
• Mustachio’d Wine holder

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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Tags: alcohol, apple, black friday deal, caffeine, Cancer, chocolate chip cookies, Cookies, lava, Nasa, nsa, sneakers, Star Wars, stormtrooper, tauntaun, Windows 7, wine

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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.

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.

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

• Dresser tool chest, save some coin
• Nook new Barnes and Noble venture, Borrowing feature
• Presentation Zen: Sumi-e, color, and the art of less
• OS Throwdown
  • Windows 7 rolls out
  • I’ll be upgrading machines in work tomorrow
  • Would you throw a launch party? I guess i just don’t have those type of geek friends
  • How To Throw A Windows 7 Torrenting Party Without Getting Arrested
  • Microsoft throws down a theme gallery as well
  • Real Free Software free software freebies worth $1,089
  • Ubuntu 9.10 comes out soon as well
  • Apple Continues to erode their warm fuzzies with their core
  • Magic Mice from Apple, some people think not?
• Trust Disney to be the keymaster to your gatekeeper? I personally think not
• Keyboard shortcuts – Google Reader, its all about the workflow
• Wave Slowly taking shape as we play: Caffination@googlewave.com

Video Glimpse:

• Where were you when the Deathstar blew up?
• Human Jumbotron

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Inspiration from Gary Vaynerchuk How does Wine make you money online?
• Beautiful Letterpress coffee Bags
• Naked Coffee? not in this town, Thanks MAS
• Make Lego Cookies
• Storm the Lego Wedding Castle

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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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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Cry Havoc and let loose the Dogs of war.

Mayhem in the CaffiNation Lair

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We’ve been invaded by another animal. not that I’m complaining I love dogs. The newest denizen of the CaffiNation Lair is named Suki, which fits into the food theme we have going around here. Its a bit harder to get an episode together with a fun little dog running about.

Today’s show is packed with interesting tidbits, quite a few of which were sent in by listeners. Thanks to everyone who supports the show Either by sending in stories or emails. You’re going to find out about coffee breath, Kona beer, Video games, flamethrowers, legos and so much more. We’re back on schedule and back to normal so things should be falling back into place shortly.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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

Geek Cruft

• Joe writes in about Maglight LED upgrade kits! Thanks for the warning!
• Lego flamethrower, via Norbert
• Star trek engineering T give away. Beware the Red Shirt
• Ejection Seat, or office chair?
• Lego Robot interfaces with your iPod
• Credit Card sized USB Drive looks like its done right
• Tekken 6 goes for authentic arcade feel. Who’s got next?
• Girly Gundum… just plain odd
• Windows 7 running on a Pentium II?
• Neat looking but LED goggles lack function
• Pac Man now followed
• Computer Key Cuff links, but obscure keys are chosen

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee: Chock Full of Nuts in an office Coffee Pot

• Chainsaw Pizza Cutter
• Circular Saw Pizza Cutter, i think this is the better design
• Dunkin Lovers iPhone App, coffee runs made simple
• Instant cup holders with Drink Klip
• 100% Kona Coffee Beer? Interesting
• Mini Grill
• Beer in a pouch via Norbert
  
• Canned Food Oddity from around the world from MAS
• Starbucks is going to try fresher coffee, hows about not over roasting it instead?
• Lego Makes a fine cup of tea
• Coffee prevents bad breath? Empirical evidence would differ

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: coffee breath, Dragon, flame, flamethrower, Lego, Windows 7

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Today’s Show is freewheeling

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Due to E3 happening this week there are a ton of news items floating around about video games in general i roll through a general discussion about a couple of things in the industry as well as take a look at some of the cooler announcements. We also look at lawnmowers, peek and Windows 7 and see whats trending in the world of Caffeine.

Overall the show is a bit front loaded, but no less awesome we are running today’s episode on a good deal of coffee, but what else is new? Like a Indy race this episode is open wheeled. I’m getting a little tired of the show note format i was using so i’m trying to go off the reservation a bit more with these episodes. Still delivering fresh and new content but not necessarily being tied down to one article on a topic.

Please let me know which style you prefer? Links galore, or freewheeling discussion. I’m probably going to stick with a mix for now.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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

Geek Cruft

• What is the Web Trend Map? The 2009 version is here!
• Why Windows 7, debuting Oct 22nd, won’t inherit vista’s problems
• Video Game Rundown, a bit of discussion, not just links
  • Video Link: Xbox 360 Project Natal
  • People who got to play with the Natal hardware give their impressions
  • Yet more accessories, but this looks intriguing, Tony Hawk Knows Skateboards
  • Sony has motion capture now too
  • Wii to add pulse tracker and New motion senors
  • New Wii fit game too
  • As controllers change what do the games do?
  • Lots of exciting news about news games too
• Philly brings in Solar Powered trashcans to save money? Big Belly, neat idea
• Beautiful Steampunk laptop
• They have figured how to keep a heart beating without us…
• Rechargeable lawnmower, My small yard makes me smile
  • I wish we still had this
• A Nintendo in a shoe?
• Color Picker Pen, design concept only, but unbelievable idea
• Two Different Secret Agent Pens

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• Caffeine Nap, it works but would your office let you?
• Trending: Caffeinated gum warning for kids… ummm duh?
• When does common sense kick in?
• Does your water need an 800 dollar filter?
• Beer ants… not really but still kind of cool
• Working on a bunch of reviews and articles a new Espresso Vodka, and Caffeinated water

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Hearts, iA, lawnmowers, natal, nintendo, sony, Steampunk, web trend map 2009, Wii, Windows 7, windows vista, Xbox 360

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:  Fractures, Bookmarks, Legos, Robots, Tech, Lunch, Windows 7

Considering how clumsy I used to be I guess its a miracle that i have gone this long without any serious incidents. I hurt myself in work today doing something very inane, but when you have a condition like mine, normal is a relative term. So please excuse the lack of my normal prose filled intro and beautifully constructed reviews. With one hand in a cast bent at an odd angle typing this was a feat in and of itself.

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Tags: Bookmarks, Fractures, Legos, Lunch, Robots, tech, Windows 7

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Today’s Show:  Server Migration, Apple, Health, Windows 7, Media,  Google, Transformers, The Military, Coffee, Noodles

Consider this a bit of a State of the Podcast episode, we brush over how things are going on the back end very quickly and remind everyone to enter into the 3 in 3 contest, deadline is this Wednesday the 21st! Its a bit of a morose weekend here in Philadelphia, football team under preforming coldest air in quite some time and a massive project all put the damper on a nice weekend.

However today’s show is a testament to the pervasiveness of the content i cover, its not just that I have to do a show twice a week but i was to spread it out any farther The sheer volume of content would swamp me! We have a bit on the inauguration and how it relates to coffee of all things. We cover some of the silly kitchen products that are leaking their way to market and we hit, briefly on the top 3 stories of the last week.

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Tags: apple, Coffee, fun, Google, Health, Media, Noodles, Opinion, Server Migration, Steve Jobs, The Military, Transformers, Windows 7