You can get an Ungoogled Chome version here. This is a version without the auto-login, no Google stuff in it, it’s pure open source Chromium.

We talked about Astricon. The Supermicro "spy story" and more.

Eric Madis is a Pacific Northwest recording artist and internationally recognized guitar instructor. His music reflects diverse and deep roots in American music: blues, jazz, country and Hawaiian. Eric has released five CD’s on Luna Records, and his music has appeared on film soundtracks, television and radio. Although best known for his solo and group work, Eric’s guitar artistry has appeared on numerous recordings and he has performed with a diversity of recording artists, including Chicago bluesman Big Walter Horton, Hawaii’s Fabulous Farden Family, ukulele virtuoso Bill Tapia, swing violinist Paul Anastasio and poet-author Nicki Grimes. Eric was a 1981 Kerrville Festival New Folk finalist, a 1991 Seattle Guitar Starz finalist and has received multiple award nominations from Washington Blues Society and Northwest Area Music Association. Eric has taught guitar classes throughout the US and Canada, currently teaches for Dusty Strings Music School in Seattle and his online guitar lessons with JamPlay.com are popular worldwide.

Video version

Check out Eric's website

TLS for all the things! Google now installs certificates for your canonic domains on Blogger, for example, https://live.vuc.me. It even redirects from the http version.

Cost of living. Food, not cars.

New LTE bands on iPhone, e-SIM.

According to Mac Rumors,

"Gigabit-class LTE with 4x4 MIMO, Bluetooth 5.0, and Dual-SIM options with an included nano-SIM and eSIM for using two phone numbers at once. iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max support the most LTE bands ever in an iPhone."

Session Video: http://youtu.be/RNJnpP4pDHU

The Residents Of Chalke Valley Will Now Have Mobile Signal

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Aldevis (pronounced like "Al Davis") is a transplant to London from Italy where he first learned music. I "met" him on a great site called Café" Saxophone [cafesaxophone.com] and wanted to hear how he saw saxophone playing and composing. Listen to his music on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/user/AldevisT/videos

Music excerpt: "A Gardenia in Dean Street"
Aldevis Tibaldi tenor saxophone
John Eacott trumpet
Paul Taylor trombone
Liam Dunachie piano
Richard Sadler bass
Chris Gale drums

Vision 33: Wine writer Tom Cannavan publishes wine-pages.com, and organises Festivals of Wine across the UK.
Tom is a true pioneer of wine on the Internet, launching wine-pages.com back in 1995. Having previously picked up awards including Louis Roederer International Online Wine Writer of the Year and the Portuguese wine industry’s award as Wine Journalist of the Year, the latest trophy on his shelf is the big one: International Wine Communicator of the Year 2018. Tom is also a popular broadcaster on TV and radio.

We’ll also talk about music, because I just found out he was in a band that had some success back in the day!

One of our favorite guests, Alan Quayle joins to talk about the week and tells us what's coming for TADSummit in Lisbon November 13th and 14th.

TADSummit is for practitioners across multiple industries to share their hard-won experiences. Learn from the people working at the coal-face of the industry in selling and solving problems for their customers using programmable telecoms.

Some of the highlights of our week with topics too numerous... no, I'm too lazy to list them this Saturday morning in a hurry to actually post the file.

Tortuous return from 24 hours of travel, we talk about Google Fi,  Google Voice and the Moto G6 which is a good value, then blockchain and cryptocurrencies and more.

Michael, Andy, Corrado and Jay consider the value of IRC as just one facet of our personal information online.