Remote broadcast from Beijing, China. ancient Chinese technology; overview of Chinese communications technology; Chinese cell phone deployment; delays in Chinese 3G cell phone standards; Internet sites blocked in China (actual trace route test results from Beijing); using proxy servers to by-pass filters (actual test results from Beijing); nude chat group in China; WTO piracy action against China; buying pirated software at Beijing IT Mart; examination of Chinese pet food suppliers; Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to cozy with Chinese officials, and computer virus generation in China. This show originally aired on Saturday, April 28, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Getting my first Gmail account by trading chocolate covered cicadas; my favorite Sterling cycle (hot air) engine; Blackberry service outage analysis; State Department hacked using infected Word document; service academy cyber competition overview; man lives underwater in capsule for 12 days; Dell offers XP after customers reject Vista; pet food recall web sites; transitioning to the job market after a military career; getting an IT job without experience (a continuing story); reading industry IT rags; knowing key IT standards; joining user groups; and setting up a MySQL database. This show originally aired on Saturday, April 21, 2007, at 9:00 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Location of missing White house emails; using the Whois database to see who owns a domain name; using robtext to search Whois database; distributed computing on the Internet (seti@home, folding@home, world community grid); getting an IT job without experience (a continuing story); Backtrack2 hacking tools revisited; and setting up a Beowulf linux cluster. This show originally aired on Sunday, April 15, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

High tech Easter egg night light (Oggz); advances in LED lighting; Google voice activated search; finding your misplaced cell phone with phone-my-phone; Microsoft ANI patch; developers behind Kazaa, Skype, and now Joost; using Skype for international travel; and by-passing country-wide blocking of VoIP using proxy servers. This show originally aired on Sunday, April 8, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Google April fool's joke; other April fool's jokes for nerds; fool's tools CD; string theory (breakthrough or cruel hoax); reconciling quantum mechanics and general relativity; report on debate between Brian Greene and Lawrence Kraus; imagining extra special dimensions (using Flatland analogy); Backtrack2 hacking toolset released (a great way to learn Linux, hacking, security); and seniors love Nintendo Wii. This show originally aired on Sunday, April 1, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Computer games to be archived in the Smithsonian; top ten computer games of all times; action plan to divert killer asteroids (it is a real possibility); my all-time favorite computer games (the Myst series); Twittervision; and Net Neutrality (law, politics, and money). This show originally aired on Sunday, March 25, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

USB (universal serial bus) standards; wacky USB devices for the geek (missile launchers, mouse wheel, kitty, screen smasher, and much more); Martian South Pole probe; Martian caves revealed (Is someone hiding?); my identity theft update; replacement battery woes; and origin of the smiley face. This show originally aired on Sunday, March 18, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) details and oddities; DST computer system updates; Internet time-check protocol; radio-controlled clocks change to DST automatically; how radio-controlled clocks work; how the Cesium fountain clock (NIST atomic time standard) works; spam filters; and corporate blocking of objectionable sites. This show originally aired on Sunday, March 11, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.

Fixing a slow Windows computer (ruling our hardware issues; removing adware and spyware; cleaning the registry; defragmenting the hard drive); identiy theft at eBay (a continuing and frustrating saga); how long the average water molecule stays in the atmosphere; founder of Wikipedia has trouble cashing in; NASA releases new photos of Saturn; and electronically monitoring your driving habits (or your kid's driving habits). This show originally aired on Sunday, March 4, 2007, at 8:30 AM EST on Washington Post Radio (WTWP) Radio.