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August 2007


Tinkering with Box.net widget embedded in WordPress blog. Download, upload, and share media. Kind of Web 2.0/social mediaish thingie. Use the widget and listen to my podcast with Randy Huber owner/manager Corvallis’ Timberhill Athletic Club. As a member of the club and being a neat place in our community, I was curious about the club expansion. And I wanted to hear about Randy’s trip to Omaha and seeing OSU Beavers win a second consecutive world series title. The 15GB Box.net online storage comes in handy when traveling around and using various devices to connect to the Web. Also useful to connect with stored media via my Internet-enabled BlackBerry Pearl. When you hear ‘network is the computer‘ … our Box.net widget example is what this notion means … work and play on a computer is becoming less tethered around software on your PC … today for many of our computing services we launch a Web browser. Listen to my podcasts with Intel’s Rob Rueckert, Scott Gatz at Yahoo!, and Gary Flake at Live Labs for more on the topic.




Please let me know if you have any issues in listening to the podcast or downloading the files via the widget. Thanks for your help if you have a minute to spare.

A wonderful summer evening in Corvallis … enjoying our garden tomatoes (we’re canning for winter sauces :) ) and a lot of watering underway. Levi and Brock are building robots with Levi’s LEGO MINDSTORMS. Levi (our son) likes building robots (interests include marine biology, writing, painting, gaming) and looking forward to LEGO robotics club this fall.

Levi and Brock

Levi-L, Brock-R

You can hear Levi and Brock podcast with OSU’s world-renowned whale researcher Bruce Mate here.

Gary Flake, Director/Founder, Microsoft Live Labs, “I am a scientist, author, and technology executive, who spends a lot of time architecting pieces of the Internet. Yet, I am oddly embarrassed by having a blog. Go figure. – GF”

Gary and I discuss Microsoft Live Labs and the evolution of the Internet … among other things. It was a great trip to Redmond campus and meeting folks at Live Labs. Gary is a great guy and with wonderful sense of humor and robust intellect to match.

Listen:

Gary Flake

See Gary Flake at Microsoft Strategic Account Summit 2007 and catch up on the Live Labs team and learn about their collaboration with NASA in producing images via “synthâ€? … people around the world can take part in the NASA experience.

Ship

We’re packin’ up and heading to the beach … ready for some Neskowin Oregon bliss!


Sunset

It was a great time at Corvallis’ da Vinci Days Festival and great opportunity to podcast with Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. I enjoyed podcasting with Dr. Wieman and our Pink Martini podcaster Jake TenPas did and amazing job with China Forbes and Thomas Lauderdale.

Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman

Dr. Wieman and I discuss his Nobel Prize and thoughts about returning home to Corvallis for da Vinci Days Festival.

Pink Martini
L-R China, Thomas, Jake

Pink Martini Podcast

“Pink Martini is like a romantic Hollywood musical of the 1940s or 50s – but with a global perspective which is modern,� says founder and artistic director Thomas M. Lauderdale. “We bring melodies and rhythms from different parts of the world together to create something which is new and beautiful.�

pink martini


da Vinci Days

Links:
Corvallis’ da Vinci Days
Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative
Pink Martini

Carl Wieman’s Corvallis’ da Vinci Days Keynote Podcast

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