What's New is Old

Mark & Wes in Lafayette, California.

Today they talk about the Spare Batteries, 700mhz Frequency Spectrum Bid, a Postage Stamp, Comcast complains to a customer because they guessed incorrectly about his/her bandwidth usage, and Raw Bandwidth.

Sites of Interest:

http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=36172089 - Swad

http://www.rawbandwidth.com/ - Raw Bandwidth

http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/ - PhoneTrips w/ Mark Bernay

Mark & Wes in Orinda, California.

Today they talk about the Stock Market, the game of Look at That, Jefferson Krull & Bob Brinker, Al Bernay, and X10 devices.

Sites of Interest:

http://www.bobbrinker.com/ - Solid investment & market advice.

http://www.suckmynasdaq.com/ - Jefferson Krull videos about the market.

http://www.gamasutra.com/ - Blue Ray for the Xbox 360 is likely

http://www.lookatthat.com/ - Look at that!

Jack Cash

Fentons Ice Creamery

Talking Technology Bigmouth Card

X10 - Computer Controlled Appliances

Again, Mark & Wes visit the expensive Japanese restaurant in Orinda, California.

Today they talk about Microsoft Spot Watch, Surface Temperature Readers, Oregon Scientific, Radio Stations broadcasting programs for popular home computers, Tubes?, JungleDisk backup over the net, and Mark is going to CES!

Sites of Interest:

http://www.tubesnow.com/ - Share and Synchronize files with friends.

http://www.jungledisk.com - Backup your drive to an Amazon server.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV - Sharing your files with the world.

Again, Mark & Wes visit Swad in Lafayette, California.

Today they talk about tuning a Marimba, .NET & JavaScript, SF Zoo Attack, 700Mhz, Goog411 & ToolBar, RootKit Strikes, Emagic & MacMini, MacWorld, Newton 2100.

Sites of Interest:

http://www.f-secure.com - Web Based AntiVirus Tool that finds rootkits.

http://free.grisoft.com - AVG Free AntiVirus Software.

http://www.eset.com - Nod32 AntiVirus Software.

http://www.cmug.org/articles/Newton.html - Happy Birthday Newton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emagic - History of Emagic

Mark & Wes sample some Indian flavors at Swad in Lafayette, California.

Today they talk about Scientology, FON routers, Al Bernay, Arthur C. Clarke, The Kindle again, iPhone API, Middle Earth, .

Sites of Interest:

http://www.woot.com - Woot

http://www.scientology.org - Scientology

http://www.fon.com/en/ - FON

Mark & Wes eat in Rheem, California again at Chef Chao. Today they talk about Microsoft Spot Watches, Radio Station Sub Carrier Signals, lack of interesting Tech Gagdets, RAID Drives, Drive Savers, Spin-Rite, Zune, The Best SanDisk MP3 player, RockBox Firmware Replacement for iPods and other MP3 Players.

Sites of Interest:

http://direct.msn.com - Microsoft Spot Watch Info

http://www.drobo.com/ - Data Robotics Drobos.

http://www.drivesavers.com/ - Drive Savers. Data Recovery Specialists.

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm - Spin Rite. Hard Disc Health via Soaftware.

http://www.rockbox.org/ - The RockBox MP3 Player OpenSource Firmware replacement.

Mark & Wes eat in Rheem, California. Today they talk about Beer, Kangaroos, Cows, Kindles, Green Tea, the EEEPC and other Technical Ramblings. We learn about Google storing all of the porn sites that you visit, along with your machine's IP address.

Sites of Interest:

http://www.yubnub.org - Command-Line for the Web.

http://www.stumbleupon.com - New Web Pages for people who share your interest.

http://www.kenradio.com - One of the best tech PodCasts available.

So we sat in a Japanese restaurant in San Francisco in the Metreon building downtown. In this show we talked about:

- The Kim1 that Mark used to manage a telephone switch.

- Oracle was in the Metreon backyard, but we weren't interested.

- Is the Asus EEEpc Computer worth it? What about the XO Laptop?