10:00 – Follow up to the Zune episode (clunky, buggy software, what the iPod has and nobody else does), print screen on a Mac keyboard, Microsoft software I don’t hate (Excel, Flight Simulator, Age of Empires) and CNN reporters dissing the Zune designers!

12:00 – Ruben takes a satirical look at the Zune (Microsoft’s jealous take on the iPod), real world versus geekdom, shooting PlaysForSure partners, Chris Feurgeson from the Late Late Show, why it’s good for iPod users and Steve Ballmer on recklessness!

10:00 – Ruben’s evil laziness-induced long hair, weird city state address thingys, Ruben’s MadPlayer’s Renaissance, going with my mum to the hospital, stupid pharmacy ticket machines, Scottish/German family history and Douglas Adams on nerds!

10:00 – Ruben reviews Michael Franks’s 2003 CD: Watching the Snow! Songs reviewed are Island Christmas, The Way We Celebrate New Year’s, Christmas In Kyoto and I Bought You A Plastic Star (For Your Aluminium Tree), and British actors on being famous!

10:00 – Exploding Yakult probiotic containers, Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills, Christmas decorations (on Rubenerd Show), and Rubenerd Blog, Atheists celebrating Christmas (Tim Li, it happens!), the Servage Christmas Competition, and Elke throwing Yakult!

10:00 – A cameo appearance by my dad Rainer Schade (with canned applause!), messing around with echo settings (Yamaha MG8/2Fx), Elton John’s Lion King song (I was 9 years old!), collecting warning signs (high voltage bathrooms!) and why Elke hated 183!

10:00 – The Sims 2 (building houses, the ultimate boolprop cheat!), cameo coughing appearances by Elke Schade, the W3C rant (unsupported tags, standards that nobody wants to use!), the Rubenerd Forum random images, and Carl Sagen’s billions and billions of stars!

10:00 – Will mobile phones replace your money, ID and keys? Customising MadPlayer genres, from the Rubenerd Forum (Surrealist’s Episode 180 comments!), my mum, the unfortunately named HSC "IPT" course and Jim Kloss on what makes a crappy podcast!

15:00 – Ruben (Mac OS X and NetBSD user!) tries to objectively review Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system: Windows Vista. He asks: Will it help you to be more productive? Has the Aero Glass interface been well executed? How much did Microsoft have on it’s plate? Are the new features necessary? Are there any areas they’ve neglected? Can their market share save them? Microsoft has a lot of talented people, but is it really fully tapping their creativity? And a Windows XP security quote!

10:00 – Laughing like Sandra Bullock, evil Internet Explorer (holding back progress, getting sites working), weird dream review (shopping centre in Singapore, machine guns, Harrison Ford, primary school) and these things I believe!