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Archive for August, 2007

The Global Geek Podcast #058 :: Interview with Richard Giles CEO of Scouta

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

So this week has been a bitch. Tim came down crook with the virus from hell, or something. The show was delayed and finding someone was hard to say the least. BUT very fortunately I have nice friends.
One of those friends is Richard Giles. Rich is the CEO of scouta.com and generally a nice guy. [...]

Tim Crook :: Podcast Delayed

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

There are not many things that stop the show from going ahead. Tonight one of those things happened, Tim is sick and can’t talk and therefore we could not record the show. We are going to try to get something wrapped up tomorrow night. Either that or I will rope in some poor soul to [...]

Microsoft Employees Laughing at Ballmer (What’s New?)

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

It seems that Microsoft employees have a good sense of humor… not sure if Ballmer will or whoever might be in charge these days would see it the same way.
First a bit of history. At a Microsoft employee convention, Ballmer stormed onto the stage doing the now infamous “Monkey Dance” to “Get on Your Feet” [...]

Audiophile’s Nightmare

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

How’s this for a complete bastard of a virus.
The virus is the W32.Deletemusic (2 guesses what it does). This nasty piece of work spreads to all attached drives, including flash drives and portable media like hard drives and I guess for that matter iPods… anyone know if that last one is right? Not sure [...]

If an Operating System Were an Airline

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

First I have to say that James is a bit of a rebel. He refuses to get caught up in any hype what so ever, doesn’t use WordPress or any other “well known” management platforms. He actually uses Geeklog, and takes pride in the fact that he does it all himself, no plugin’s here.
If you [...]

The Bloggers Response to Web 2.0 Overload

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

For those that have listened to this weeks show you would know that we talked a bit about the Web 2.0 overload problem. Basically put there are services, blogs, rss feeds and general information overload going on out there. Some bloggers are starting to say that they just want out. Then there are those that [...]

Need Help with the Command Line Interface? Why Not Cheat?

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Some of you out there, not a lot but some are command line junkies. You guys make the rest of us look stoopid. Yes the rest of us could do with some help now and again. Us GUI people are just not used to talking to our computers in the same way. It can be [...]

Firefox Ruled July!

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

You might have heard me drop into the show the stats about “what” browsers people are using to visit the blog. Well thought you guys might be interested in knowing that for the month of July Firefox was King!
For the month of July our visitors by percentage were using:

Firefox 26.3%
Unknown (wtf?) 24.7%
Internet Explorer 23.8%

This [...]