The Mind of Men

Episode 102 - the CAO eLements Tour

mike@MindofMen.com (Mike) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:39:32 GMT

There's a lot to talk about this week, from the celebrity death toll, to more tech updates. This week we were saddened by the loss of Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett and surprised (though not necessarily shocked) by the death of Michael Jackson. We talk about how the Internet could barely handle the MJ coverage, and Google thought the mega searching was an attack. From there it's good bye to Extreme Tech as we know it and it looks like Microsoft is finally getting into the anti-virus market.

This past week, the truth about Steve Jobs' medical condition was revealed, Google Voice was getting a lot of buzz and of course in politics you can't ignore the mess in South Carolina. All this and more in our first segment.

Our major segment is an all out cigar orgy. We share our thoughts about the special CAO LX2 eLements Tour sample pack. If you ever wondered what each tobacco in a cigar blend would be like by itself you'll have to listen to hear how the three individual puros stacked up to the wonderful CAO LX2.

Due to the major segment being all about this special cigar experiment, we forego our nomal cigar and libation pairing.

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Episode 101 - Internet Security Update 2009

mike@MindofMen.com (Mike) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:27:45 GMT

After yet another unscheduled week off, Mike and Jim return on the heels of their 100th episode with another collection of news and notes. Lots to talk about from Jim's new Kindle DX to some of the things brewing on the politics front.

In our second segment, Jim provides the 2009 update to some of the Internet Security things you should be thinking about as your browse the net.

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Gonna be one more week

jim@mindofmen.com (Jim) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:35:11 GMT

Okay, for those of you keeping score at home, this week would have been the next episode of the mind of men.

For a variety of reasons, we had to push the episode to next week.

Talk to you all then.

Episode 100 - The 100th Episode Spectacular

mike@MindofMen.com (Mike) — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:14:35 GMT

With great pleasure, we present our 100th Episode of the Mind of Men. This week we take a walk down memory lane offering some, ummmm, highlights from our humble beginnings in episode one and then sprinkle it with a bit of our latest thoughts.

From there we offer some interesting stats on how many of you are out there enjoying our content. And of course it's a weekly round up of interesting news items.

Our cigar and libation pair for this show is very special and nothing short of exceptional, so listen in, enjoy and get ready for the next 100!

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Where's your next episode guys?

jim@mindofmen.com (Jim) — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:03:41 GMT

Er ah...

Okay guys, as you know, we have episode 100 coming up next. As such, we really want to do a good job and make it a special episode.

Both Mike and Jim have been crazy busy over the last couple of weeks and while we managed to get together last weekend we only had enough time to smoke our cigar and drink our libation - certainly not enough to do a full episode properly.

We are going to get together again this weekend and will be doing episode 100 then.

Once again our apologies for the somewhat uneven schedule over the last few episodes. As you all know from the show, Mike recently assumed full control over his company has has been very busy working with it.

Jim lost his job, found another and is in the process of selling one house and buying another, so to say things have been crazy would be an understatement.

Once again, our apologies and we hope you look forward to our 100th episode.

By the way - there is still time to send us a comment or good wish for the episode to feedback@mindofmen.com. If you want to record and audio file and send it, that would be great - we'll try and play it on the show. Otherwise, and email is fine too.

Episode 99 - Tech Update 2009 - What We Use Day to Day

jim@mindofmen.com (Jim) — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:30:36 GMT

This week on the show the guys record this episode right after an exciting Kentucky Derby.

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Windows 7 RC Goes Live and is available to General Public

How to make a Mint Julip

Credit Card Skimming: How thieves can steal your card info without you knowing it

True Cost of an Amazon Kindle

Cablevision apparently gets the idea of unfettered Internet

Chinese Governemt may force people to change names

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 is out

Windows 7 Release Candidate generally available May 5

Delta Airlines Strands Passengers

The Case for a Federalism Ammendment

New York Flyover one big case of stupidity

Arlen Specter's Defection - One more reason for term limits

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Episode 98 - Video Encoding

jim@mindofmen.com (Jim) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:47:46 GMT

This week on the show we once again thank our listeners sharing some more feedback. From there both Mike and Jim share some new job updates (polar oposites as they are). BBQ Season is starting up and Easter was just the excuse Jim needed to break out a Turducken.

In tech news, Windows Live email's recent outage caused quite a stir, the founders of the Pirate Bay website were convicted in a Sweedish Court and Microsoft is claiming 96% of the netbook market. Ebay is spinning out Skype and Blackberry launces their AppStore (with some problems which Jim has found a fix for).

In other news, South Park's creators received a strange gift, Somali Pirates took a US ship over and paid the price, the President relaxes Cuban travel restrictions, and Tax Day saw hundreds of protests nation wide and CNN's coverage was suspect.

In this week's main segment, Jim completes his series on Digital Media, focusing on Video.

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No Soup For You! One Week!

jim@mindofmen.com (Jim) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:49:29 GMT

Okay, guys, apologies here. I had to bail on Mike at the last minute for our Friday recording session and as this past weekend was Easter with all of the family related stuff that entailed, we just did not manage to get together to do an episode.

On top of that, things have suddenly gotten very busy in my life. I'll be going into a lot more detail on our next show, but items involved are a job change and a move out of the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts. Both of these changes have been pretty sudden meaning that there is a lot of work to do and not much time to do it, so things may be a bit chaotic podcast-wise for the next couple of months.

Long story short, our goal is to try and stick with our regular schedule, but we do ask everyone's indulgence for the time being. Our current plan is to be back next week with another show. On the agenda is part two of our ripping and playback series with a look at video.

In the meantime, you can always enjoy the archives - go back and listen to our first 10 shows or so - it will be just like hearing them for the first time...

Jim

Episode 97 - Audio Encoding & Streaming

jim@mindofmen.com (Jim) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:20:59 GMT

This week on the show Mike and Jim start off with some great listener feedback and then jump into some tech news, politics and some other stuff just for fun.

In this week's main segment, Jim covers Audio Encoding and Streaming. If you've ever wondered how to rip your CDs to digital format or just want to improve the way you do it, this episode is for you. Jim starts off with a discussion of the popular Audio Codecs and then covers the topic of hardware and software streaming.

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Jim's List of Components for the $500 Gaming PC

Shuttle SG31G2 SFF Barebones Case	$ 194.00
Intel Pentium E5200 2.5 Ghz Processor	$ 73.00
Patriot Extreme 2 GB DDR2 Memory Kit	$ 30.00
LG DVD +R DVD Burner	$ 25.00
Seagate Baracuda 7200 RPM 250 GB HDD	$ 50.00
Saphire Radeon HD 4670 Graphics Card	$ 70.00
Microsoft Wireless Media Desktop	$ 32.00
Shipping	$ 26.50
Total	$ 500.50

(all components prices from newegg.com as of 3/23/09)
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Episode 96 - Home Theater Part 2

jim@mindofmen.com (Jim) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:38:54 GMT

This week on the show Mike and Jim share some great listener feedback and once again put a call out for followers on twitter (show: @mindofmen; Jim: @mindofmenjim; Mike: @mikevilla) and wonder if anyone in the greater New England area would be up for a Mind of Men Herf. With all we hear about the downturn in the economy, Jim points out a positive side - the value of the dollar and suggests now is the time to buy Whisky overseas.

Next, Mike has long been a fan of the Blackberry, but Jim just made the leap and shares his thoughts. In a few other tech stories we hear about how there are to be no Apple products in the Bill Gates family, a great free tool for recording your Windows desktop, and a number of security and privacy stories round out the mix. In our final two stories, Mike talks about a proposal he read about for merging the Pacific with the Mountain time zones, and Jim finds an article about why Rush Limbaugh is actually bad for the Republicans.

In this week's main segment, Jim completes his two-part series on Home Theater.

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