Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
Orson Welles
Leo Laporte
Podcaster, Broadcaster, Tech Pundit. Chief TWiT at the TWiT Netcast Network. The Tech Guy on the Premiere Networks.
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i am so embarassed
Spam can be fun. Got this email today (minus the promised Extrasoft Velour blanket, alas):
[PROMOTION]Extrasoft Velour blanket&cushion
Dear Sir
We, Anhui Light Industries International Co., Ltd, are one of biggest exporters
of kinds of blankets and cushion in China.
Attached pls find Extrasoft Velour blanket&cushion, some of our latest collections.
If they are interesting or you have your own enquiries, pls feel free to let me know.
Looking forward to your kindly reply!
best regards
Fairy
Sales Manager
Textile Dept
UPDATE: I must be in some blanket database somewhere. I just got another one...
Attached pls find Wrinkled blanket & cushion, some of our latest collections.
If they are interesting or you have your own enquiries, pls feel free to let me know.
Looking forward to your kindly reply!
best regards
June
Textile Dept
Saturday after my premiere radio show (on Premiere Radio Networks no less) Jennifer and I decided to celebrate by kayaking down the Petaluma river. It's not really a river - it's a tidal slough - but it's very calm and there's little traffic. It was a perfect day.
The Tech Guy radio show launches on Premiere Radio Networks tomorrow with the following stations, and more are joining every hour (including a really big announcement soon I hope).
Starting next weekend:
Some of the TWiT hosts will have short segments on the show. The plan is to have one three minute segment each hour at around 23 minutes past the hour. This week Steve Gibson and Paul Thurrott will be on talking security and Vista, respectively. Next week Amber MacArthur, Dick DeBartolo, Merlin Mann, and Ron Rosberg will join the line-up.
Our national launch sponsors will be DSLExtreme and Carbonite (thanks guys!), and thanks to KFI and Premiere Radio Networks for making it happen!
The new chat channel at irc.dslextreme.com is #techguy. The new call-in number is toll-free 1-888-8 ASK LEO (that's 1–888–827–5536).
See you tomorrow (even if you don't hear me!)
Happy Valentine's Day. These looked so good at my local bakery that I just had to snap them. (I didn't eat them, though - I'm on a strict diet for the launch of the Lab.)
I'm back from vacation. I had to jump ship on the Geek Cruise to handle an urgent family matter (all's well now - nothing to worry about) but I decided to use the empty block of time to relax. I've got a new radio show and a new TV show launching this month, so this might be the last time off for a while.
During the break I caught up on some movies and TV. I just saw the Studio 60 Christmas episode and I think it might be the best, most satisfying, television show I've ever seen. If you've missed this NBC series from Aaron Sorkin of West Wing fame, you probably should see the first 10 episodes to set up episode 11. I often despair about the state of television, but when it's good, it's better than any other medium. It's both inspiring and terrifying (well, for someone who aspires to do good TV, that is).
Vacation ends today. Amber and I will be back with a new net@nite live via Talkshoe tomorrow at 9p Eastern (0200 GMT) and a brand new TWiT is going up at one minute past midnight Monday morning (I'm holding it a little longer than usual because Dvorak revealed some news that's embargoed until then). I also have a new FLOSS Weekly and this WEEK in LAW to post this week. Monday I'll post a visit to the actual Gadget Warehouse, recorded when I was with Dick DeBartolo in Manhattan last week.
Before I left on vacation I had a great conversation with the people at Vox. I've been looking for a web backend for the new Tech Guy radio show. The wiki I'm using now just doesn't offer the social networking features I'm looking for. Thanks to Anil Dash and the folks at Six Apart I think I'm moving to Movable Type /Typepad (not sure which right now) with a new design from Apperceptive. We'll continue to use the wiki until that's done.
I'm also commissioning a theme song from the great Ashley Witt. Ash has done so many of the TWiT themes including Doin' the TWiT.
The show launches in one week - I'll have a final list of affiliates soon.