Rubenerd Show 236 - 2008.04.12

Fun with a label printer!The ridiculous fun with a label printer episode!

ACT ONE: Roel247’s comments on electronic voting, compulsory voting in Australia, Senator Bob Brown of the Greens meeting the Dalai Lama.

ACT TWO: My label printing obsession! The Brother PT-80, labeling CDs, boxes, magazine holders and everything in my father’s home office, there’s no need to write anything anymore!

ACT THREE: The growing complexity of CMSs and why I’m moving over to home brew again using Ruby and SQlite, WordPress 2.5, loudly dropping aerosol cans, Elke’s gigantic honey sandwich.

ACT FOUR: Converting metric to imperial in Google, Russian mail order brides, Ruben’s idea for a standardised New World Order (patent pending), seeding torrent files, too many tabs in web browsers!

ACT FIVE: Why South Park is actually a great show to watch, being able to laugh at yourself, not taking life too seriously!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 48:01, 22.0MiB

Rubenerd Show 235 - 2008.04.10

Elke's Sims 2 family at the time of recoding the show!The Elke Sims 2 bombardment episode!

ACT ONE: The Simpsons Bombardment, Elke’s first live morning Whole Wheat Radio show, Elke on The Sims 2.

ACT TWO: Slow Singapore internet today, Microsoft gets new open source chief, Ruben rants about "shared source" nonsense, CalgaryGuru on Flickr’s new video uploading service, is Yahoo’s brand failing?

ACT THREE: Elke on different social networks across the world, suss people on Bebo, verbose MySpace video profiles.

ACT FOUR: Rant on people intentionally misspelling names, Ruben versus Reuben, Miss Cook adventures in primary school in Melbourne, Web 2.0 buyout baiting, Jerry Yang’s haircut, Wikipedia as a drug, Yahoo Mash.

ACT FIVE: Facebook discussion including remembering 30 passwords, Elise Hopkins, The Schade Clan group, rant on how useless nationalities and patriotism are becoming, origin of the word expat, Mr Slave.

ACT SIX: Ridiculously long lists of Facebook requests, fun in my own introversion, testy-pops, 2005 was a very good year, "Liberal" meaning different things in the US and Australia, Lotus SmartSuite, Microsoft Plus 95, my OBSESSION with screeshots!

ACT SEVEN: Ruben’s dad Rainer debunks mind-controlling chemtrails, huge ships near the Port of Singapore, illuminati controlling my mind as a sheeple, why it’s hard to find words that rhyme with sheeple.

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 1:07:00, 30.7MiB

Rubenerd Show 234 - 2008.04.07

Photo from our trip to Tasmania 2006The Tasmania and ranting about news episode!

Episode show notes coming soon, sorry guys!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 1:02:12, 28.5MiB

Rubenerd Show 233 - 2008.04.06

Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Junction 8, SingaporeThe disjointed rambling about indie media and building things episode.

ACT ONE: Recounting childhood memories and obsessions from Melbourne, Ikea furniture, Lego.

ACT TWO: Is Starbucks having a positive effect? My favourite coffee house closing, improved coffee quality.

ACT THREE: Rant about public transport: are we better building new damned giant roads or new train lines?

ACT FOUR: General public’s perception of security is wrong: YOU are the biggest security threat! Getting fascinating Bruce Schneier books for my birthday, security companies screwing consumers, using a non-administrative account on Mac OS X.

ACT FIVE: Comparing building your own computer and open source software to hot rod builders, being a 1990’s kid, running Windows software on Linux and FreeBSD with Wine, why it’s a great time to be alive!

ACT SIX: Comparing open source software developers to independent musicians, thanks to Jim Kloss and Esther Golton for the inspiration, sorry for the sacrilegious comparison! Are people worth what they’re being paid? Who’s deriving more happiness from what they’re doing?

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 1:23:03, 39.0MiB

Comments instead of the forum

Say what? To make life easier I’m changing a lot of the plumbing behind the Show, my blog and my consulting and uni notes blogs over the next few weeks to integrate them, so I only have one site to maintain instead of four. With all the stuff going on in my life right now, keeping all this stuff up to date and seperate is not really workable!

So therefore vis a vis ergo wysiwyg I’ll be archiving and closing the forum soon :-(. If you’d like to post comments about a show (or absolutely any damned thing you want!) please click the Post Comment link at the bottom of the latest show. If you’ve had an approved comment once before it should automatically be posted without the waiting period.

Thanks everyone for your listenership! Listenership is a word right?

Rubenerd Show 232 - 2008.03.28

My dad and I at Brotzeit in Singapore for my 22nd birthday! The useless Rubenerd 22nd birthday episode!

A full show will be done by the end of the week, but I wanted to do a show on my birthday. Cool timezone checking site, blog post about the big two two, camera phones, purchasing music from Whole Wheat Radio, birthday lunch at Brotzeit, UPS shipping, FreeBSD and a convenient apple juice handle.

Featuring Elke Schade as a Kmart announcer.

AFTERWARD: I noticed after uploading that the music is a bit too loud compared to my voice for the first 10 minutes or so. I will remember to check my levels more carefully next time!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 23:03, 10.6MiB

Rubenerd Show on hiatus

The Rubenerd Show is on hiatus until further notice. I’ll be fighting a lot of bad thoughts and demons for the next few months. Thank you everyone for your support.

Rubenerd Show 231 - 2007.12.22

Commodore 64 in high definition! The conspiracy theory episode!

I would post a description, but it would just be a conspiracy! Warning: heavy ironic and satirical undertones!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 35:27, 20.3MiB