Stuart regales us with his epic tale of loss and new love.

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Intro Music to this podcast was The Idiots are Taking Over from NOFX via http://music.podshow.com.  We dove right in with Stuart throwing in a U2 reference letting out a somewhat tentative “Rock and Roll Doggy.” After a bit of waffling around about whether we have anything to talk about UB launched into a bit of (old now) news abotu Japan’s performance in the American Football World Cup which led on to a brief discussion of American Football video games and American Football on British TV.  Stuart then confessed his chagrin at having wrongly chastised the BBC for it’s earthquake coverage. 

Here is where the fun started with revelation after revelation (that makes two revelations right?) about your intrepid host.  You’ll have to listen to the riveting discussion of The Pinapple Chunks Man vs. The Pony People and Bob’s new iPod to learn these shocking details for yourself.

We then moved on to Twitter and it’s usefulness or lack there of, and Pownce and AIR.  We briefly mentioned the Mac OS X app Little Snitch before dashing on again to discuss a project UB is shuffling around trying to find a starting point on and Stuart’s resume tracking script.  More geekery followed and then we closed things up with a round of Been in Japan too Long baseball.

Closing music was the fantastic “The Future Soon” by Jonathan Coulton.

00:00 Introduction. What is the name of this podcast?
00:30 Firefox Developers Conference in Tokyo
00:60 Using a journey planner phone app to A plan a journey
01:45 Features of EzNavi
02:30 Back to Conference
02:45 Details about the Tepia Building
03:17 Back to the Conference
03:40 Details of the Talk
04:00 Firefox gives you choice
04:50 APIs that Firefox developers might like to use
05:15 Google APIs
05:41 Developer Track XULRunner
06:34 XUL Apps and Javascript
06:50 High CPU on Windows with Firefox
07:05 Mac talk
07:30 Windows users don’t brag about their machines
07:45 Why are developers switching to the Mac
08:00 MovableType and the beginning of Blogging
08:30 Smart Bloggers
09:00 Bill Gates and the top bloggers
09:40 Young Japanese Firefox plugin writers
10:50 Takahashi method presentation rundown
12:50 Keynote
13:00 Description of the presentation
13:40 Unknown Editor
14:00 Hidemaru http://hide.maruo.co.jp/software/hidemaru.html
14:35 How to make a plugin in 3 minutes
15:00 Using the IME to write code
16:00 An entertaining day
16:30 Bob’s Tech mailing list
17:15 What is the purpose of the mailing list
18:10 Stuart’s mailing lists
18:30 The aims of a local mailing list
19:00 Why it is a invitation mailing list
20:00 Mailing Lists vs PHP Chatboards
20:30 Mailman integration with Boards
20:45 Jim’s integration between web and newsgroups
21:00 Newsgroup vs Mailing lists
21:50 Expression Engine features
22:45 A new topic? PHP chat boards
23:00 Bob extends Expression Engine
23:30 Plugins, Extensions and Modules
24:00 Stuart admits to being a PHP n00b
24:20 Stuart raves about Python
24:40 A new shiny thing
25:15 Benefits of increasing your programming toolbox
25:40 Stuart got burnt out on Java
26:00 Java has changed
26:26 Bob says Swing looks like crap
26:51 Swing looks good on Windows
27:00 Azureus looks pretty good
27:25 http://www.ikayzo.com/desktop-application-samples.html
28:13 GUI toolkits which begin with C
29:30 Mac Interface guidelines
30:00 No one will use crappy looking Mac Apps
30:22 Standards for Mac Apps
32:26 Design of the Mac Apps vs Vista
32:50 Have you seen anyone using Vista?
34:00 What do you want to buy now?
34:14 Buying a new Windows machine.
35:22 Make the shop give the users an upgrade CD
36:20 Hardened Safe Mode
36:40 Patch Tuesday
38:00 Google Docs as an API
39:00 Excel as the ultimate software
39:45 Excel as Groupware
40:00 Hosting your data in Google
41:20 Excel to generate code and XML
42:00 Generate
42:50 Single source for all information
43:00 Subversion
45:00 Subversion for server settings
46:45 Type in good notes when you submit code into Subversion
47:15 Working as a team
48:15 “Blame” who checked in the line
49:00 Google spreadsheets vs Microsoft
49:30 Innovators Dilemma
50:00 Disruptive technology
50:15 Disruptive technology is often worst than the best
51:00 Transistors are the future!
51:14 It’s worse but it good enough..it’s better because it is simpler
52:42 Microsoft Live has no mindshare
53:30 Eric Schmidt is on the board of Apple.
54:00 Will Google buy out Apple?
54:30 I like Google. I like Apple. Do they need each other?
54:45 Google to buy Sun?
56:00 Apple to use Sun’s FS
56:30 Bob waffles about us being overtime
57:00 We are both so freaking brilliant
58:00 You are in charge of the show notes
59:00 Bob’s computer Science Major
59:00 .. he talked like Barney the Dinosaur ..
61:00 I understand why he said no
62:00 I wish I had taken more of the CS classes
62:10 Stuart loved his Archaeology class
62:43 At least they know why they are unemployed
63:00 The idiots are taking over!