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Information Salad: Episode #3
By Slobokan | July 26, 2006
This week, Vinny and I discuss everything from operating systems to the conflict in the Mid-East. We apoligize for the delay in getting another episode online. Things have been hectic, but we promise to settle in, and start producing episodes more regularly.
Vinny takes a turn at producing the podcast, which was nice since I was finishing up my conversion to drupal and my switch to a completely new operating system.
Here is a list of items we talk about during the podcast. If you would like to know more about any of the items, feel free to click the link provided. This week’s “toss up” includes:
- Apple MacBook - Vinny’s new toy.
- Ubuntu Linux - Slobo’s new operating system of choice.
- Fedora Core - Another Linux OS Slobo tried to test.
- Windows XP - The operating system millions of people are fooled into thinking they actually need.
- wine - an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
- delphi - Slobo’s development tool of choice.
- Ubuntu Forums - The official Ubuntu forums.
- freenode.net #ubuntu channel - The official support channel for Ubuntu users.
- AOL Customer Service - Vinny gives us an update on some developments in the aftermath of his AOL experience.
Apparently, someone in AOL’s Retention Department dropped a little package off over at Gawker Media. When Ben opened it, he was gifted with an actual copy of AOL’s Retention Department manual. I won’t bore you with the details of it. Frankly, it’s loaded with fake touchy-feely corporate empathy for their valued members. One page, though, really sent me into a frothing frenzy.
- Slobokan’s NASCAR Pet Peeve - Whether it was the dvr, or the NBC coverage, I missed the National Anthem. Did anyone else see it?
- Scumbag Tries To Break His Own Leg - Vinny discusses the post on Boing Boing which shows a coward who tries to get his friend to break his femur so he can get out of being sent to Afghanistan.
- Stageleft - Vinny discusses a post on stageleft.info and the coverage of the current conflict in the Mid-East.
Stageleft is all bent out of shape by some photos sent to him by the Angry Arab News service. In it, he implies that the media won’t put the pictures out because they’d make Israel look bad.
- WordPress - A great blogging platform.
- Drupal - A great content management system.
- Migrating From Wordpress To Drupal - Slobokan discusses his reasons for migrating to a completely different content management system.
My goal, when I started my first website many years ago, was to make a “one stop” shop for all the topics that interested me. A place where I could comment on current events, provide links to some of the more interesting places on the internet, post images and tell stories. I wrote several Christian poetry books back in the late 80’s and early 90’s and I wanted to get those online as well. I had been searching out a “feasible” content management system for quite a while.
While I found many CMS packages that seemed to fit the bill, none of them offered everything I wanted, as well as a simple importation system for grabbing all of my Wordpress data.
- TWiT.tv - With the help of Arktyp and Lullabot, TWiT.tv has a whole new look.
- del.ic.ious - Social bookmarking at it’s finest.
- w.bloggar - A great desktop blogging client for Windows, which allows posting to many different blogging platforms.
- Performancing Extension for Firefox - A great extension for Firefox users, that allows posting to your blog from directly within Firefox. In the podcast Slobokan makes a feature request to allow the Performancing screen to open in a new tab. If Slobokan had not been so dense, he would have noticed that right clicking on the Performancing icon brings up that very option.
- Slobokan’s Technorati Tagger - A great freeware application that assists in the creation of Technorati tags for your blog entries.
Plugins make putting Technorati tags into your posts quite easy but what happens when your blogging platform no longer supports the plugin, or you migrate, like I did to another platform altogether? My new Technorati Tagger allows you to create a list of technorati tags and then generate the html formatted code to insert into your post. There is no need to worry about compatibility when you use the actual html code.
- The Alligator Pit - Slobokan’s website for some of the applications he has created.
- ecto - Another desktop blogging client for MacOSX as well as Windows.
- Peter Cullen Back as Optimus Prime - Vinny talks about this development regarding the new Transformers movie.
Peter Cullen will reprise his role as the voice of Optimus Prime for the upcoming Transformers live-action movie. No word yet if Frank Welker will come on as Megatron, the Decepticon leader, but Forever Geek calls it unlikely.
- People Need To Patch Thier Machines
Some Myspace and Webshot ads are taking advantage of the WMF vulnerability in Windows that was discovered in December of 2005 to install spyware on Myspace users’ computers.
- Security Now - A great podcast from Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson.
- Active Christian Media - A wonderful company that connects bloggers who like to review books with authors who like to write them.
- Science Of The Soul - Slobokan discusses an email he received from an author of a book he reviewed, and how the author tries to solicit a response from him.
- Pocket PC Thoughts - Vinny talks about being a reviewer for Pocket PC Thoughts.
- Trial By Ordeal - Another book mentioned by Slobokan.
- I’ve Always Been A Yankees Fan< - Another book mentioned by Slobokan.
- Presumed Guilty - Another book mentioned by Slobokan.
- Blogosfear - The book Vinny wrote during NanoWriMo last year.
Music From The Podcast:
- Termoli by Stargarden (courtesy of Magnatune)
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