Changkhui: Changkhui

Ford was all excited about the Microsoft event that he would like to share it with the audience. This guy deserved to be a brand ambassador or a product manager. The PDC 2008 was Microsoft's equivalence to Apple's WWDC. We both never attended the event, just shared what we heard over various podcasts and from Microsoft's site. This was somewhat an IT hardcore episode.

We read the Sprint's news on WiMAX rollout in Baltimore with some excitement. It was a good sign, though with some mixed reviews; good on speed but bad on coverage. Then we talked about the latest book we both finished, Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe. It was one of the best books we have read this year, not that we read that many. Apart from what everyone knew about Wikipedia, the book took us to many different projects where crowdsourcing is applied. A good read, in short.

A few posts on our forum triggered the idea for this episode. Our listener, Phz and more at http://passionsound.blogspot.com, shared his expertise in music and sound production. We asked for some software recommendations for beginner, some examples for music purely generated by software and music innovations in recent years. He surely did not not disappoint me. We learnt a few things for the episode. Also, towards the end of the conversations, things turned somewhat personal, but it was in the spirit of the conversation. Hope you all do not mind. We use Amon Tobin, album Foley Room and BT, album This Binary Universe as our samples during the discussion.

Because both of us went to the event so we could talked about this as our first-hand experience. The event was held at TCDC, Emporium Tower on October 19, 2008. The event was a gathering of Wordpress users in Thailand. It was fun and enjoyable. Too bad, our mEnE wasn't there. She was at her graduation rehearsal. Then we talked about the news release of Radiohead's In Rainbow album. The news did not get as much publicity as it did a year ago. So we would like to make a note of their result and hope to see more things to come along the line.

mEnE came back by popular demands. This time we talked about the recent Apple Pro Day event on October 9, 2008. I attended the whole event on the first day and it was very enjoyable and a nice surprise on the podcast session, and so we talked about what I experienced on the day. And another topic came up when we came across the 163rd episode on This Week in Tech, when Kevin Mitnick shared his experience at an airport. It gave a very different picture of Kevin Mitnick from the book Take Down. Hope to see more of all on http://www.twitter.com/mene078 and http://www.Twitter.com/hongsyok.

For the 100th episode, we managed to get all founders in the episode, even Koson from New York. We talked about 4 articles from Wired magazine; 1) Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road

By Daniel Roth, September 2008, 2) Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web

By Daniel Roth, July 2008, 3) Analog Meets Its Match in Red Digital Cinema's Ultrahigh-Res Camera

By Michael Behar, September 2008 and 4) Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop

By Chris Baker, September 2008.

We gave some incorrect information about the game Spore, so we decided to correct it by launching this episode. Ford somehow managed to get his Net connection up, but it was barely passable.

We tried to make a 3-way conference among mEnE, Ford and I, but failed. Somehow Ford had a bad internet connection. So We ended up talking with mEnE only. She prepared the story for the game Spore, we exchanged our view on Chrome and, mainly, on Twitter. The story she told us just showed how geeky she was.

Due to his post at http://www.blognone.com about his personal use of copyrighted software license, Ford would like to elaborate more. Now, instead of having just 2 guys talking about computers, it would be more interesting to find a lady geek to help us facilitate the conversation and we had our mEnE to do the job. As should be expected, the topics went from software license to copyrights in songs, fonts, movies and Open Source. It was quite enjoyable and we ended spending 90 minutes talking about it.

Due to hectic schedule, the program was disrupted for two weeks. Passakorn came back to share what he went through during the period. This was more about project management as well as resource management. He had to deliver a product in 15 days, which, in the end, he failed to deliver. The episode was on lessons learnt from the project.