One more excused absence was recorded today, for Mr. La Grew. But, again, we labored on and still had a great time with Leah and Rachel from the DoIT Help Desk. They told us all about the ins and outs of computer support, and we had a preview of the new Human Resources System (HRS) that’s on the horizon.

Plus we played “Awesome or Lame” (RAID arrays are indeed “awesome!”) and “Stump the Geek” with our new friend from the land of free money, Trent!

We had a few excused absences today, Ty and Mattrock were out with the plague, and Sandee was skiing in Tahoe. But we soldiered on and drafted Theresa Saldana and Dale Carder to help us with our little broadcast enterprise, and Paul Broadhead stopped by to chat about the soon-to-be open new Union South. Check out our always awesome podcast for all the action!

We were joined by Kelly Johannsen, director of Software Training for Students (STS) and Braden Bruington and Don Fleischman, instructors for the Student Technical Training (STT) courses to talk about all of the training offerings available to UW-Madison students. Plus we had up to the minute news on Apple and Microsoft, and played a unix-ey version of "Stump the Geek!"

Monica Bush and Stefan Wahe from DoIT Security helped gave us some tips on how to secure not only your computer but also your smartphone. Plus, Ty explained Google Voice to his Grandma, Lorraine, who copies and pastes like a champ on the Facebook and our listener Matt came in to the fabulous WSUM studios to play "Stump the Geek."

We were joined by Theresa Saldana from DoIT's Repair and Desktop Support (RaDS) group, and she tells us all about the bad things people have done to their computers and how her group can help. Plus Rick Keir, consultant at the DoIT Tech Store, gives us a primer on backing up your computer's data before bad things happen.

Steve Devoti was our guest today, talking about the UW cloud, and the other clouds too! And apparently MySpace is for sale, who knew? Plus, George Dreckman from the City of Madison Streets department and the geeks talk snowplows and GPS.

Hey! Wow! Sorry our podcast is of the lesser audio quality flavor this week, our main studio computer decided to die about 50 minutes into the broadcast. Fortunately Mattrock has us redundantly covered! You can listen to us chat about the new Verizon iPhone and quiz Adam's next-door neighbor, Otto, on how to put up and disguise cell phone towers.

Wow! We went from zero to the most connected radio show on the planet in just 7 days! Yes, we know, we are awesome. This week we discussed the recent 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Relive all the ups and downs by listening to our awesome podcast. Plus we played "explain it to your parents," "stump the geek," and gave away several cookies! For those with good internet or the patience for it, we also have a 192Kbps stream on our website!