Technology Bytes

This is still in development. We changed Y from YMODEM to YAHOO on the air last night, per a brilliant suggestion from Dwight Silverman, so I guess this is technically Version 1.01 rev A

Please comment with suggestions if you can think of a bettor word for any given letter.

As many of my listeners know, I am a bit of a shutterbug and recently I purchased a new Sony Alpha 100 DSLR camera.

One thing I have learned over the years is that having a good and functional camera bag is crucial when it comes to being mobile with your camera gear.

I recently acquired a very nice bag from Crumpler. This bag is called the 4 Million Dollar Home.

This particular bag is sized to hold a standard sized DSLR camera like a Nikon D80 or similar and 2 lenses, one attached to the camera and a second in a resizable pocket.

It’s a sturdy and tight bag that holds the camera quite snugly and is very comfortable to wear. One thing I really like about it is that it doesn’t look like so much like a camera bag which I find is a plus because I don’t neccessarily want to broadcast that I am toting camera gear.

They make smaller bags for pocket sized cameras and the sizes go all the way up to backpack styles designed to carry everything you might need for an all out photographic safari.

Check out their web site at crumplerbags.com. Not only will you see some great bags, but the sight is rather entertaining. Based out of Australia these guys seem to not take themselves too seriously and have put forth a lot of effort to make their site fun to navigate and explore.

Consider the description posted for my particular bag:

This is, hmmm, oh my oh my, what a lovely home. The chandelier is just to die for. Whoops, there it goes, coming down – Oh, darling, are you alright? Here, better sign your will . . .

So, yea…they’re a bit wacky. But they make a fine product and already realize that at the rate I am accessorizing my new camera I will need to upgrade to the 5 or 6 Million Dollar Home before my trip next year.

Hey everyone, Jay Lee here with an interesting event/request.

Readers of my personal blog may recall me writing about a guy named Jonathan Coulton. He’s the guy doing the “Thing a Day” blog where he writes and records a new song every day for a year. The most popular one (IMHO) has been Code Monkey.

Apparently he has agreed to a performance in any city that can generate 50 or more Eventful requests. I confirmed this at his Myspace page.

I just added my name to the list for #33 so we just need 22 more “demands” to get him here.

I think this would be an awesome show. If you would like to add your name to the Eventful demand list please follow this link. It only takes a few minutes.

Tonight’s show had a request from Ernesto, the KPFT program director, for help with the KPFT network and special guest Ralph Bond, Consumer Education Manager for Intel talking about back-to-school technology. Barrett was out sick.

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We’ll try the Digg style site for the InfoShot again. Let me know if this approach is useful and if you think you’d use a site like this for news updates during the week.

Coffee.geekradio.com

Someone has created a selection of Star Trek themed motivational posters. They are all pretty funny, so if you want to waste some time, go here

This Friday, August 4th, the crew of Technology Bytes and many of their fans will be hanging out at Tropioca in Midtown at 2808 Milam at Drew. Tropioca specializes in bubble tea, coffee and smoothies. They also serve up desserts, pizza and free wifi. Things get started a little after 7:00 and generally lasts for a couple of hours. Hope to see you there!

Jay, Phliktid, Barrett and Dwight in Houston (with Punk Princess and Groovehouse on the phones). Peter in San Antonio for the first hour – then he had to leave early.

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I wanted to try out a Digg-style link system and there were a lot of links for tonight’s news, so I put them in a beta version of the software. Go to http://coffee.geekradio.com and check out the links. Also, let me know what you think by leaving a comment or emailing me at peter@geekradio.com.

With the growth of collaborative bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us and others, would those of you who visit this site regularly like and/or use a collaborative linking site focused on the areas of interest to the show? I use some of the collaborative sites, but they often have a broader focus than I am looking for so I don’t follow the vast majority of the links.

I have the software that we could use, but I wanted to be sure that this is a solution to something that people want/need before I do much work to implement it.

Use the comments to make your opinion known. I want to know if you would: 1) use a collaborative link site and 2) contribute links and comments to it. Ideally, it would be like getting an InfoShot every day…