For our 24th episode, we present a show entirely of suggestions from our listeners. OK, we might say something about orphans, too. D – Let’s talk about Windows 7 and the Starter Edition Windows 7 SKU List Good news: Most consumers only have to worry about 2 SKUs – Home Premium and Ultimate Bad news: […]

This Tweak and Geek episode has us discussing antipatterns — that is, things you shouldn’t do, like programming poorly or NOT listening to Tweak and Geek. We also bring our Lame News feature out again. Anti Patterns Recently, Craig has become interested in software design patterns. They’re time-tested solutions to general problems. Although they do […]

This week, we talk about a recipe straight from heaven’s doorstep! Bacon Explosion Although this is not technically a technology related post, I learned about the most innovative thing man has ever created, the bacon sausage roll! This is the ultimate perfect food for people. Ingredients: 2 pounds thick cut bacon 2 pounds Italian sausage 1 […]

This time on Tweak and Geek, we’ll talk about technology in the scariest of places. Not the Dungeons of Dread or the Torture Chamber; the REAL scary place — outdoors! Listener Driven (NOT!) — you see, Pat can’t count, and… we’ll have that episode soon, we promise. It just won’t be #22. Technology for the […]

WARNING: AUDIO PROBLEMS! On this short episode of Tweak and Geek, we’ll talk about embracing-and-extending the rules of everyone’s favorite fallback for decision-making; Rock-Scissors-Paper! Unfortunately, this recording was damaged — you’ll hear some clicking and artifacts — but with some heroic assistance from our sometimes guest host Mike Swindler, we think you can listen without […]

The Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors have been released. Not in a horrifically violent prison break-out or anything, though; a news release did the trick. We’ll review these, and review some Lame News, on this Tweak and Geek. Programming Errors SANS Institute Releases Most Dangerous 25 Programming Errors “Today in Washington, DC, experts from […]

We interrupt our usual Geekiness with a special episode celebrating the return of the TV Weird-Action-Suspense-Drama LOST! Please treat this entire podcast as a spoiler alert. If you do not want to know anything that has happened or might happened in the season opener and beyond – do not listen and do not read the […]

This time on Tweak and Geek, we talk about Powerpoint and presentations, and discuss the state of sci-fi TV in the new season. The Bacon Explosion Presentations! Businessweek presentation about presentations. Pat wrote about this topic a couple of months ago, too. Every geek we know more or less hates Powerpoint with a passion verging […]

This short episode has us reviewing Wired.com Threat Level’s Seven Best Capers of 2008.

Did Star Wars or Star Trek influence culture and technology more? We’ll be the judge of that! It’s also time for Lame News. Star Tech Scott Johnson’s blog poses the question which is more influential on technology: Star Wars or Star Trek? In his opinion, Star Trek is the most influential. What do we think? […]