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My wife called and informed me that a Fedex Box had shown up from Apple with my newly repaired iPod tucked inside. Neat! Now I can catch up on all the podcasts I’ve been missing. Not bad, I mailed it in on the 13th, they got in on the 14th, and today is the 17th. […]

Where your host forgoes his usual activities at Chabot Observatory and instead accompanies his wife to Wil Wheaton’s booksigning at the Border’s in Union Square. As is true of many things, it was actually my wife who took notice of his blogging activities. I’ve read his blog off and on for quite some time, and […]

Where your host talks a bit about his goals for the New Year, chats about the newly announced Apple Mini and iPod Shuffle, rambles (probably incoherently) about the perceived gap between men and women in technical fields, and finishes with a mellow track from online record label Magnatune. Some links: Do you really need a […]

I must admit it, I’m pretty empty today. I have a couple of topics that I could talk about in today’s podcast, but they seem of limited interest to anyone but myself. So, I’m throwing the topics out to my listeners and readers: Is their some topic that you’d like to hear covered by the […]

The gents at PVRblog are reporting that Tivo is beginning a new developer program. I’ll have to keep an eye on this, as it appears they may support the ability of amateurs to create content on the Internet which can be delivered directly to Tivo players. A quote: TiVo announces new developer tools | PVRblog […]

Over at evilgeniuschronicles, Dave Slusher has dug out yet another Internet pundit who proclaims that the idea of allowing every individual to have their own radio show is somehow a bad thing. I promised that I wouldn’t rant, and it may seem like I’m piling on, but here’s my take. If you don’t want to […]

Where your host blinks the sleep from his eyes, relates his experience with swapping operating systems on his laptop, and tells the story of how he came to work at Pixar and what he did on the Incredibles. Expanding on my operating system debacle: I never got Fedora Core 3 to have acceptable record quality. […]

I’m mostly satisfied with running Fedora Core 3, but I’m having some difficulty getting rid of the crackly, popping sound that you heard in my last podcast. I’ve tried disabling apm, acpi, added no-hlt to the boot, disabled dma on the hard drive, and still the crackling badness remains. If anyone has any information which […]

Wherein your host describes his pique with Windows XP and describes his installation of Fedora Core 3 onto his laptop, followed by his recording of a podcast using the new software setup. Links from the show: I chose Fedora Core for my Linux variant. It works rather well, and has the most polished installation of […]

On this 44th edition of Brainwagon Radio, your host apologizes for his lack of podcasting over the holiday, but gives brief reviews of some of the toys that were acquired during this 2004 holiday season: Karaoke Revolution 3 for the Playstation 2 Halflife 2 for the PC A Bluetrek headset for my new cell phone […]

Need something to test out your new MP3 players? Well, you could surf over to Lisa and Rowan reading Twas the Night Before Christmas. Just too cute for words. Or you could surf over to my own Cinnamon Bear Podcast. The final episode is up, hope at least some of you are enjoying it.

When I woke up this morning (well, after loafing in bed for a while) I did my usual scan of email and weblog posts, and then checked my link rank via pubsub and found to my shock that I have entered the top 100,000 weblogs, apparently because of link backs from Lisa Williams and Brian […]

It’s great to get a linkback from Lisa, but I’m afraid I must disappoint her: that wasn’t me playing Live and Let Die on the ukulele. That bit of brilliancy was entirely Brook Adams. He’s got a CD. Check him out.

Where your host complains about his perfect storm of auto repair, switches back to his laptop for improved sound quality, is interrupted by the missus, and talks briefly about referer spam and BitTorrent. I think this very well might be my most boring podcast ever, but what can I say: I’m preoccupied by the holiday. […]

While exploring the depth of my ridiculous referer spam issue, I ran the following simple query: mysql> select count(*) as cnt , baseDomain from referer_visitlog where to_days(now()) – to_days(visitTime) = 0 group by baseDomain order by cnt desc limit 10 ; +—–+————————–+ | cnt | baseDomain | +—–+————————–+ | 682 | chikaliresortmalawi.com | | 682 […]