Arnold Palmer

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Mark & Wes back in Lafayette, California at Pizza Antica.
Mark takes a moment to talk a bit about his theory on the stock market, voting power, dividends, and paper with no value, Wes finds a tool that helps him get around the Windows XP Login screen for an old machine he forgot the password to, 3D monitors exist, hacking windows mobile OS for old phone models.

Win a prize by answering Mark's interesting challenge. Answer in the blog by leaving a comment, or send either of us an email.

Sites of Interest:

• http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/05/in-praise-of-du.html - Marc Andreessen: In praise of dual-class stock structures for public companies.
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_tables - Rainbow tables to help crack passwords.
  
• http://www.d--b.webpark.pl/dreampackpl_en.htm - DreamPack software if you forgot your Windows password (beware of loud music here)
• http://www.humanproductivitylab.com/archive_blogs/2007/11/15/cisco_experimenting_with_an_on_1.php - Cisco Experimenting with an On-Stage Telepresence.
  
• http://www.crn.com/networking/208401625 - Android OS makes waves.
• http://www.ion-audio.com/vcr2pc - Ion Introduces VHS to PC via USB machine
• http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/ - Do a find for "Dom Tuffy" and "Tom Duffy".
• http://www.lospadres.info/thorg/lbb.html - Text of the Esquire article from October 1971.
• http://bodin.org/koolefant/ - The picture used to be different in different browsers, nowadays not so much.
  

Remember the Phonograph

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Mark & Wes back in Lafayette, California at Swad.
Wonderful Indian flavors again at Swad Indian Cuisine. Mark shares a lot about old technology and surprises me with his findings regarding the Philco Radio Phonograph, DJ's at Chris Bernay's Wedding, methods in the past for figuring out what song you heard on the radio, reradiation & reflection statistic tracking, Roku NetFlix Player, Nano Technology Robots are becoming a reality, a 1927 GPS Watch.

Sites of Interest:

• http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indrad.html - Antique radios.
• http://graphic-design.tjs-labs.com/show-picture.php?id=1133814455&size=FULL - Play records on a beam of light!
• http://www.kurthanson.com/HTM-RAIN/NewsArchives/Feb-00/022300.htm - Xenote iTag helped identify songs on the radio.
  
• http://www.sonyericsson.com/product/trackid/ - Cell phone software for identifying songs you hear
  
• http://www.immi.com/howItWorks.html - Using cell phones to track what songs/commercials/movies people listen to.
  
• http://www.roku.com/netflixplayer/ - RokuLabs Netflix Player.
• http://facelogon.xidtech.com/index.htm - Computer security using webcam face recognition
• http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/20/nanosoccer-at-robocu.html - Nano-bot soccer!
  
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-564133/Fancy-driving--earliest-wind-sat-nav.html - 1927 GPS Watch.

My Blog-Log-Blog

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Mark & Wes back in Orinda, California.
ahhh, the expensive Japanese Restaurant... Today Mark does the introduction and talks about his blog log, tracking dollar bills via the net, the iPhone rotary dialer, iPhone 3g battery life will probably not be great, the Babbage Difference Engine, remember "Don't Copy that Floppy?", The good and bad of new technology, and Wes and Mark talk about YouTube and how parents should handle their kids internet fame.

Sites of Interest:

• http://www.mybloglog.com/ - Set up a summary page showing all your Internet activity.
  
• http://www.wheresgeorge.com/ - Money comes and goes. Here's where it's been.
  
• http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/ - The Difference Engine Realized.
  
• http://www.valhenson.org/kitchen.html - The Kitchen Computer from 1969.
  
• http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ - Microsoft Telescope Data from Around the World.
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanborn_Maps - Maps with details of buildings done 100 years ago.
  
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4 - Don't Copy that Floppy
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Copy_That_Floppy - About the above video.
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atarisoft - Home Computer ports of Arcade Video Games.
  
• http://www.fish-school.com/ - Train your pet Fish!
  
• http://www.sea-monkeys.com/ - YAY! Sea Monkeys!

SY-109-er

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Mark & Wes at Pizza Antica in Lafayette, CA... again.

Today Mark gets to ask the waiter if he would stop if not told to, the SY109er clock, giveaway of the day, Mark's mother had a drawer full of 'stuff', Yahoo Pipes, updates on the iPhone SDK, 3G iPhone Spec, Travel and Package Tracking online, Speed Racer is actually pretty good?

Sites of Interest:

• http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ - Free Software.
• http://www.woot.com/ - Bag of Crap and Woot-offs.
• http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=_E8FgV_42xGWa5pfZVUMqA - Hot Deals search built with Yahoo Pipes
• http://www.tripit.com/ - Better ways of tracking airline tickets and getting reminders.
• http://www.trackmyshipments.com/ - Automatically track packages shipped to you.
• http://www.lucasarts.com/ - George Lucas Software Development.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-i4-U9Uak - BloomBox.
• http://www.voicecloud.com/ - VoiceMail Transcription. (good quality)
• http://www.simulscribe.com/ - VoiceMail Transcription.
• http://www.spinvox.com/ - VoiceMail Transcription.

Mark is setting up a profile on mybloglog.com

mybloglog.com is a service of Yahoo! which lets a web author tie together a single profile showing everywhere they post on the web, and for some web services, a list of their recent entries. Click here for my profile to see how this works. I need to add the following special link in order for myblogspot to authenticate my (partial) ownership of this blog. I don't know whether you will see it, or what you will get if you follow it.

Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification

See You See Me

Mark, Wes & Troy at Huong Tra in Richmond, CA.
Today Mark and I meet up with Troy to discuss BrightKite, Internet Dating, RSS Awareness Day, Skype Clients for cell phones, and how my Minidisc Recorder dies on Thursday night.

Sites of Interest:

• http://brightkite.com/ - Bright Kite, like twitter, but better?
• http://www.yelp.com/biz/huong-tra-richmond - Huong Tra
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe - History on CuSeeMe Software
• http://sattlers.org/mickey/CU-SeeMe/index.html - CUSeeMe Software Clients
• http://www.rss-specifications.com/history-rss.htm - RSS History
• http://www.iskoot.com/ - Skype client for your cell phone to make Skype calls
• http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/08/hp-mini-note-2133-officially-official/

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