No Agenda Netcast #37 For June 28, 2008 - Where's The Beef?



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A unique podcast from John C. Dvorak and the "Podfather", Adam Curry
Length: Approximately 123 mins.

This Episode's Show Notes by KD Martin:

From the Curry Manor in the UK and smoky San Franciso, it's No Agenda!  Let's start with a Skype delay and Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday party in London.  What's up in Zimbabwe?  John wants a brick of Zimbabwe money.  Adam needs to post his Super8 movie footage from his 3 years in Uganda.  John questions Adam's claim of 60,000,000 sales of new cell phones / mo. in India and Africa.

Now were off to... Jamaica?  Adam's sold.  How about a rent house for $40,000 a month?  John wonders if you can load it up with frat boys and get your money's worth, but there's one problem.  As an argument ensues, we discover what advantages John has with contributing editors to his blog.  Flickr sucks?  This turns into a wonderful word war.  Here's a link to Adam's picture of Patricia.

New cameras with GPS chipsets are cool - the camera will even tell you altitude, azimuth and compass heading. Adam enjoys the new online charts and 3D pictures of airports for navigation.  How does this move to our rights, Britney Spears, Amy Whitehouse and our privacy? We quickly switch to Adam's interest in a new airplane, a Cirrus jet.  [Ed. This is one sweet aircraft].

From aviation we spin into the "Enron Loophole" and out-and-out corruption in the "awl bidness."  Should there be laws against oil speculation and futures contracts?  Adam's latest Source Code netcast and interview with Viviane Reding  is quite interesting. This leads into threats of legislation and regulation of telephone charges, text messaging, etc. Adam learns a new word?

More from John on the pricing of mobile telecom services. Adam rants on marketing for mobile networks vs. pricing on phones. John agrees and brings up the ridiculous plans and indecipherable billing. "Buy a burner."  Do kids use phones for anything besides text messaging?

Adam claims radio in the UK is still very good and takes the place of netcasts. John discusses radio in the US and why netcasting is so popular. Does John listen to sports talk radio and right wing talk shows?  Adam lists his favorite BBC radio programs and netcasts, which do sound interesting. John wonders why some people get hooked on these shows.

The key to interesting radio or netcasting is energy, it's difficult to get energized every day, according to Adam. Where is No Agenda the next 2 weeks? On Sunday. When you lose a listener, do the old rules apply? John brings up Phil Spector and his lectures on the hit singles business.  "Two dogs and you're out!"

Off we go to Phoenix AZ and the Mexican Army. The drug war has come to the US and involves a US Congressman. John's trip to Brazil makes us want to buy bulletproof cars. Adam's Uncle gives some sage advice about Korea and the bad press on American beef. John makes us hungry for some Korean food. How do we get salmonella from tomatoes? You may not want to know.

Just where is this tomato from? Best quote: "We're not eating iPods." Let's rant about Monsanto and others. Why aren't these drugged cows labeled? Countries in South America are banning genetically modified "stuff," but farmers are getting it anyway from neighbor's pollen, and guess what? It's all patented!  Prediction: Here come the lawsuits.

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>>No Agenda Podcast For 08.06.28

wtf kind of date is "08.06.28"?

how years has it taken to figure that the USA format is abit weird..
The European format almost works...

With the full Year, Month, Day (2008.06.28) in that order, you don't have to worry about things like Year 2000 and you can also do easy date calculations. That's a format I often used, back in the olden days when I was a programmer. None of my programs had to be 'fixed' for the Year 2000 problem because I don't happen to be an idjit.

I also used Julian dating on mainframes.

For some reason in the U.S., a date format different from the entire rest of the world was chosen. Maybe Bill Gates just isn't all that smart after all.

It may sort properly on a computer, but I seldom want to sort the dates of the No Agenda podcast on a computer.  The format used for all the previous titles (e.g., "No Agenda Netcast For June 14, 2008 - Episode #35") seems to work pretty well.

Well, there's also the fact KD is just a little bit weird but we do our best to minimize his more grandiose flights of fancy.

Apparently the date thing slipped past us.

The entry shown in the main screen posting list also includes the title of the episode, and there is often not enough room to spell out the date.

The title in the article has enough room to spell out the date and include the title.

Best of both worlds approach.

Well, the old-fashiioned format seems to have enough room to include all the information that needs to be included, it seems to be sorted properly, PLUS humans can understand wtf date the entry is from.  Unlike "08.06.28", which I've never seen before in my life.

On a related topic, where's the "08.07.07" posting?  Was the podcast cancelled b/c of Independence Day weekend?  Or is it just that I can't find it, because I can't figure out how to translate July 7, 2008 into the weird computer-speak?

From Adam Curry: "JCD is stuck at the airport in Seattle, delayed due to storms, hope to get the show up later today, that is, if he gets home before my bedtime."

The old format didn't leave enough room for the show title in the header in all cases, and John said he wanted it in there.  Thus, something had to go.  SMF forum software doesn't always sort things correctly.  Take a look at the "Picture Of The Day" board (click it in the left hand column).  For some reason, older articles are at the top.

Well, OK, Mr. Martin.  Now that I have cracked the code, I guess I can identify new postings of "No Agenda".

And 10-four on the delay.  I'ts never a good idea to fly, especially over a holiday weekend.

Mr. Mustard, the episode no. is always included in the header and title (if I can remember it  )

I'll have the new episode posted as soon as possible.

OK, gotcha, Mr. Martin.  Btw, since we're on the topic of chronology, what's up with the weird timestamps here (and on DU).  It's one hour EARLIER than Pacific time.  Is the server out in the ocean somewhere, or what?  Again, once you crack the code, you can figure it out.  But why not just use some kind of standard mainland time?