brainwagon

Where your host teams with his charming wife to give the fashion rundown of the Oscars, and to review all the movies we didn’t see (most of the Oscar nominated) and the ones we did see in 2005. This was our first team effort: your charity in listening is appreciated for this stupendously long episode. […]

Where your host describes his mostly good experience in upgrading from WordPress 1.2 to WordPress 1.5. Links from the show: You can get WordPress 1.5 from wordpress.org. I’m enjoying Build Your Own All Terrain Robot. I’ll probably be ordering some windshield wiper motors for my robotics project in the next week, maybe from bgmicro. Still […]

Where your host chats about photography in public, blogging in the workplace, and his usual assortment of podcasting and gadget related experiences. Links from the show: I’ve used netstumbler in the past while wardriving, but their version for the Pocket PC called ministumbler doesn’t appear to work on the Dell Axim x50v. I did find […]

Where your host wakes up early and knocks out another podcast, even while suffering through an at-times painful head cold. Hope the sound of nasal drip didn’t offend. Links from the show: My new PDA is a Dell Axim x50v. 802.11, Bluetooth, VGA resolution screen, both SD and CompactFlash slots, lots to love! Got a […]

Wherein your host tries out his new Behringer UB802 mixer (with mixed results) and goes on about his new project: hacking on “the Slug”, a Linksys NSLU2 network storage device. For all the enthusiastic support that I’ve read for the Behringer as a decent mixer for the beginner, I’m still getting a substantial amount of […]

Where your noble host apologizes for his infrequent podcasts, and goes on to describe why he thinks small devices are interesting as webservers, with some suggestions. Also, the history of his involvement in telescope making. My interest in these small webservers are for implementing an idea that I’ve been calling a digital homestead: a small, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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. […]

In trying to fix his previous noise problems, your host appears to have squelched that a bit, but ends up with clippy audio. Sigh. More stuff: My KVM switch died. Double sigh. I expand a bit more about my rant against Lisa Shapiro and her NY Times editorial. Chatted about TinyP2P and MoleSter. I thought […]

Wherein your host lists a number of people who have said nice things about us, and mentions the weekend’s projects: a new icon redesign for brainwagon and Helix DNA Server. Items mentioned in the podcast: Chad over at phpmp.com mentioned brainwagon in his podcast. He is also the brains behind podcast247.com which provides podcasts via […]

Damn, it’s been nearly a week since I put out my last one, and this was painful to put out. Hopefully it isn’t too painful to listen to. Items from the show: Shameless plug for my Cinnamon Bear Podcast. I upgraded this weblog to use the latest version of the CG Powerpack. I rambled about […]