Kevin Smith on Seesmic Tonight…

Not sure how they pulled this off, but Seesmic has Kevin Smith on tonight at 6PM Pacific Time.  Smith is the writer, producer and usually director of Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl and Clerks II; as well as countless comic, cartoon and TV projects (this all from  memory, so I may have missed one).  He also plays the character Silent Bob in his movies.  

I love this guy.  He was at Macworld a couple of years ago and I think that was the highlight of the show for me.  He’s just a guy who tells it like it is, with an incredible whit and silver tongue.  My schedule may unfortunately preclude me from joining the conversation tonight, but I look forward to watching Smith on Seesmic in playback.

 6pm PT Wed. Kevin Smith

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Spam Works? Oh no!

iPod batteries overheating in Japan. Meanwhile, Jobs says he’ll fix crashing iPhone. More on the bigfoot scam. Google Android phone is real. Yahoo opening up Buzz to the public. Sounds like Digg to me. Researchers say Vista gets dumped from 1/3 of enterprise PC’s. Microsoft dropping fees left and right. They also like tailored search now. IDF in play in San Francisco. MSNBC behind the times. 29-percent Internet users buy from spam solicitations.

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25th Anniversary of PCjr

Toshiba slips in a Blu-ray killer: a regular DVD player that outputs 1920×1080. Nice. I want one. NetRadio doomed no thanks to RIAA. Good idea, take music off the air. Dell loses Cloud Computing Trademark. Google getting sued over patents. Bigfoot declared a hoax. Highlight of the day: 25th anniversary of PCjr. My comments.

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Open Source Gets Huge Legal Boost

Open Source breakthrough. Licensing deals binding to an extreme. You can be sued for copyright infringement even if the software is free. iPhone 3G gripes unheeded by Apple. USB 3.0 coming soon at 4.8 Gbps!! Cisco and Oracle spending a fortune on lobbyists. Text-messaging coming to regular phones. AT&T will spy on you and so will the UK government. News: blank DVD’s are cheap.

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Microsoft Surface Surfaces

Apple has huge fire in Cupertino. Social networking sites going global. I’m not a big user and need to comment on the topic someday. Perhaps the Russians are not responsible to Georgian cyber-attacks. 26 patches from Microsoft this last Tuesday. Too many. People now reporting on daily sales of the iPhone as if anyone cares. Microsoft Surface surfaces. Salon magazine says McCain is a computer dunce. Nortel getting into SIP and buys developer of protocol. Liberty Media wants the AOL dial-up business. Why?

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Microsoft Hates Windows?

Microsoft giving up on Windows. Looks like they are taking Midori seriously — Windows in the Cloud. Gates looks like he is still working to me! Worldwide Internet speeds leaves USA in the dust. We’re number 15 — woot! AMD pumping the 4870 X2. Two chips for the price of two chips.  Gmail outage makes a black mark on cloud computing. Lenovo launches quad-core. Dell does an eePC.

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AMD to go Fab-less?

IBM says it shares a vision of Linux in 2018? Red Hat says Linux will all be in the cloud. AMD may go fab-less?  Gartner warns of widespread slowdown in semiconductor sector. Google may be a big content provider? The computer beats a professional player for the game of GO. I find another 2012 story end of the world that year according to the nutters. Best Buy to have stores in the airport. Motorola leading US handset business. Microsoft wants Hollywood to save the Zune.

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Geoff Smith’s “1s & 0s” Video

Geoff Smith is a great guy and excellent musician.  Here’s the video to his single, Ones & 0s.  If you like he song, buy it or the album–follow the links at http://thegeoffsmith.com

 
Ones and 0s by Geoff Smith from Cali Lewis on Vimeo.

Leaked Apple Memo Seems Fake

Google kills Blogger sites for no good reason. Someone blames Obama. 3/4 of UK searches done on Google. Microsoft getting attacked left and right. Needs to do something. Microsoft doing huge stock buyback. Cisco not buying EMC. Russian gangs hijacking PC’s (no kidding!). The Russians are trouble. Dell getting cheap ink for going green. AOL killing Time-Warner. Where is Steve Case when you need him. Steve Job memo gets leaked to the press mysteriously. CLEAR laptop lost then found. DEFCON underway. Visit if you can. Everyone agreeing to shutting their mouths while in China for the Olympics. Cripes.

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