http://www.akatombo.com/index/podcast/archive A Podcast by UltraBob and Stuart Bob McDonalditunesfeed@t4ac.com http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/files/CIMG0356.png http://www.akatombo.com/index/podcast/archive 60 A Podcast by UltraBob and Stuart A Podcast by UltraBob and Stuart http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/total_snowboot_existence_failure/ http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/108/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:27:01 +0900 Stuart regales us with his epic tale of loss and new love. http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/files/total_snowboots_existence_f.jpg UltraBob 00:15:53snowboots boroboro funnyStuart regales us with his epic tale of loss and new love. http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/a_quick_warning/ http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/104/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:40:01 +0900 A quick warning to keep listeners from downloading a big video file accidentally. A Quick Warning UltraBob 00:01:02A quick warning to keep listeners from downloading a big video file accidentally. http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/halo_school_a_retry_for_ipod_compatibility/ http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/105/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:27:00 +0900 The first try seemed not to be ipod video compatible so here’s another try.  A little smaller in size too. Halo School a retry for ipod compatibility UltraBob 01:22:56The first try seemed not to be ipod video compatible so here’s another try.  A little smaller in size too. http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/the_pineapple_chunks_man_vs_the_pony_people/ http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/99/ Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:59:01 +0900 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. UltraBob 00:57:36Pineapple Chunks, Pony People, Japan, American Football, Twitter, Pownce, Little Snitch, Jonathan Coulton, NOFXIntro 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. http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/akatombo_media_presents_a_bit_otaku/ http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/98/ Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:33:00 +0900 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! UltraBob 01:06:36firefox otaku mac Akatombo Media computer science programming00:00 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! http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/akatombo_media_presents_episode_2_eric_meyer/ http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/94/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:54:00 +0900 An announcement of the winner of last weeks contest, followed by a recording of Web Standards: They’re not just for purists anymore a presentation by Eric Meyer at a meeting of the Tokyo PC Users Group on May 12th, 2005. Apologies for the typing during the presentation, I was recording with my powerbook mic.  Speaking of mics, I got a new one.  Can you tell.  Please comment and let me know whether more episodes like this would be desirable or if it was completely boring to you.  Also write me to tell me how much better I sound with the new mic.  Finally, you can comment verbally via skype by leaving a voicemail for username ultrabob on skype.  If you are requesting that I add you to my contact list, please mention in the request that you are a listener. UltraBob 01:44:40Eric Meyer, Akatombo Media,An announcement of the winner of last weeks contest, followed by a recording of Web Standards: They’re not just for purists anymore a presentation by Eric Meyer at a meeting of the Tokyo PC Users Group on May 12th, 2005. Apologies for the typing during the presentation, I was recording with my powerbook mic.  Speaking of mics, I got a new one.  Can you tell.  Please comment and let me know whether more episodes like this would be desirable or if it was completely boring to you.  Also write me to tell me how much better I sound with the new mic.  Finally, you can comment verbally via skype by leaving a voicemail for username ultrabob on skype.  If you are requesting that I add you to my contact list, please mention in the request that you are a listener. http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/the_natcast_episode_1/ http://www.akatombo.com/podcast/show/91/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:29:01 +0900 Yeehaw! Finally we release Episode one of the highly anticipated as yet unnamed podcast by my friend Stuart and I. Akatombo Media will be hosting this podcast and we hope to make it a fairly regularly updated addition to the Akatombo Media site. Topics haven't been completely nailed down, and could end up being just about anything, but at this point it seems like our three main topics are shaping up to be Japan (we both live here), technology (we both live and work in it), and making stuff (We are both longtime tinkerers). This is our first attempt at recording a podcast, and as you might expect there are some rough edges and kinks that we'll have to work out. This was recorded over a week ago, but it took some time to get a website put together and the sound files edited into a proper podcast. To get things going, I generated a site in iWeb and then ported it over to work with the cms that runs the rest of the Akatombo Media site. We'd love to hear your feedback, and if you have a suggestion for something you'd like to hear us talk about, please let us know. We hope you enjoy the show, and if you know what we should call it, please tell us because we don't, though there are title ideas scattered in subtle places throughout the cast. UltraBob 55:34Japan, technology, basic, programming, making, make, UltraBob, Stuart, Zushi, Yokohama, Wikipedia, Japanese, Jonathon, Coulton,Yeehaw! Finally we release Episode one of the highly anticipated as yet unnamed podcast by my friend Stuart and I. Akatombo Media will be hosting this podcast and we hope to make it a fairly regularly updated addition to the Akatombo Media site. Topics haven't been completely nailed down, and could end up being just about anything, but at this point it seems like our three main topics are shaping up to be Japan (we both live here), technology (we both live and work in it), and making stuff (We are both longtime tinkerers). This is our first attempt at recording a podcast, and as you might expect there are some rough edges and kinks that we'll have to work out. This was recorded over a week ago, but it took some time to get a website put together and the sound files edited into a proper podcast. To get things going, I generated a site in iWeb and then ported it over to work with the cms that runs the rest of the Akatombo Media site. We'd love to hear your feedback, and if you have a suggestion for something you'd like to hear us talk about, please let us know. We hope you enjoy the show, and if you know what we should call it, please tell us because we don't, though there are title ideas scattered in subtle places throughout the cast.