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Hmmcast #183 Live - the blogs aren’t dying edition Update 3:31pm PST Download Hmmcast #183 (mp3) Running Time: 01:01:17 Hmmcast #183 live Friday November 14, 2008 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT Streaming audio: 66.154.0.129:8200 Topics for Hmmcast #183 October worst month for U.S retail — ever (2.8% decline): the October decline in retail sales was broad-based: 2.5 percent in furniture, 2.3 percent in electronics goods, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hmmcast #182 Live - change is everywhere Update 4:04pm PST Download Hmmcast #182 (mp3) Running Time: 01:00:43 Topics for Hmmcast #182 - ch-ch-changes - Obama is the man - what should Yahoo! do now? - the future of search engines - learn what the new Hmmcast Live shows be like each week as well as how you can be part of them * Featuring live original music by tabites [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Class of 2008 The last couple Father’s Days I’ve highlighted other father bloggers. This year I’m going to break from the mini-tradition and talk about how proud I was as a father this past week. Our oldest (pictured right) graduated from high school on Tuesday night. My dad flew out from Arizona to witness the glorious event too. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Class of 2008 The last couple Father’s Days I’ve highlighted other father bloggers. This year I’m going to break from the mini-tradition and talk about how proud I was as a father this past week. Our oldest (pictured right) graduated from high school on Tuesday night. My dad flew out from Arizona to witness the glorious event too. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 275 out of 290 stars on Rock Band Endless Setlist EXPERT difficulty I captured some HD video of our sons completing the hardest and longest set of songs on Rock Band for the Xbox 360 on the expert difficulty setting. The Endless Setlist which contains 58 songs took them 3+ hours to complete and out of a possible 290 stars (5 stars possible on each song) they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 275 out of 290 stars on Rock Band Endless Setlist EXPERT difficulty I captured some HD video of our sons completing the hardest and longest set of songs on Rock Band for the Xbox 360 on the expert difficulty setting. The Endless Setlist which contains 58 songs took them 3+ hours to complete and out of a possible 290 stars (5 stars possible on each song) they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 275 out of 290 stars on Rock Band Endless Setlist EXPERT difficulty I captured some HD video of our sons completing the hardest and longest set of songs on Rock Band for the Xbox 360 on the expert difficulty setting. The Endless Setlist which contains 58 songs took them 3+ hours to complete and out of a possible 290 stars (5 stars possible on each song) they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 275 out of 290 stars on Rock Band Endless Setlist EXPERT difficulty I captured some HD video of our sons completing the hardest and longest set of songs on Rock Band for the Xbox 360 on the expert difficulty setting. The Endless Setlist which contains 58 songs took them 3+ hours to complete and out of a possible 290 stars (5 stars possible on each song) they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mogulus demo I’m testing Mogulus with this post through a demo Hmmcast Live channel. It’s a live video with chat service (pictured above). You can view it below live, maybe, if I’m still broadcasting live when you read this. One of the things that I like about this service is that it’s easy to setup. I set everything [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mogulus demo I’m testing Mogulus with this post through a demo Hmmcast Live channel. It’s a live video with chat service (pictured above). You can view it below live, maybe, if I’m still broadcasting live when you read this. One of the things that I like about this service is that it’s easy to setup. I set everything [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anti-theft game packaging workout Got my exercise in for the month opening the anti-theft packaging for Nintendo Wii Super Mario Galaxy. Watch Hmmcast Hmmcast #179 downloads Windows .wmv (1480×1080 HD) PSP .mp4 (480×272) iPod .mp4 (640×480) How does Super Mario Galaxy look with component video cable on HDTV? A friend asked me to check out how Super Mario Galaxy looks on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anti-theft game packaging workout Got my exercise in for the month opening the anti-theft packaging for Nintendo Wii Super Mario Galaxy. Watch Hmmcast Hmmcast #179 downloads Windows .wmv (1480×1080 HD) PSP .mp4 (480×272) iPod .mp4 (640×480) How does Super Mario Galaxy look with component video cable on HDTV? A friend asked me to check out how Super Mario Galaxy looks on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anti-theft game packaging workout Got my exercise in for the month opening the anti-theft packaging for Nintendo Wii Super Mario Galaxy. Watch Hmmcast Hmmcast #179 downloads Windows .wmv (1480×1080 HD) PSP .mp4 (480×272) iPod .mp4 (640×480) How does Super Mario Galaxy look with component video cable on HDTV? A friend asked me to check out how Super Mario Galaxy looks on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anti-theft game packaging workout Got my exercise in for the month opening the anti-theft packaging for Nintendo Wii Super Mario Galaxy. Watch Hmmcast Hmmcast #179 downloads Windows .wmv (1480×1080 HD) PSP .mp4 (480×272) iPod .mp4 (640×480) How does Super Mario Galaxy look with component video cable on HDTV? A friend asked me to check out how Super Mario Galaxy looks on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chumby Unboxed in HD As of this writing I’m up to 11 widgets cycling in my Chumby: weather forecast, horoscope, stock quotes, word of the day, this day in history, IMDb died today, Rotten Tomatoes reviews, recent Chumby widgets, Google News - Tech, daily countdown to Van Halen concert and the default blue clock. Chumby Unboxed And Unpacked In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chumby Unboxed in HD As of this writing I’m up to 11 widgets cycling in my Chumby: weather forecast, horoscope, stock quotes, word of the day, this day in history, IMDb died today, Rotten Tomatoes reviews, recent Chumby widgets, Google News - Tech, daily countdown to Van Halen concert and the default blue clock. Chumby Unboxed And Unpacked In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chumby Unboxed in HD As of this writing I’m up to 11 widgets cycling in my Chumby: weather forecast, horoscope, stock quotes, word of the day, this day in history, IMDb died today, Rotten Tomatoes reviews, recent Chumby widgets, Google News - Tech, daily countdown to Van Halen concert and the default blue clock. Chumby Unboxed And Unpacked In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chumby Unboxed in HD As of this writing I’m up to 11 widgets cycling in my Chumby: weather forecast, horoscope, stock quotes, word of the day, this day in history, IMDb died today, Rotten Tomatoes reviews, recent Chumby widgets, Google News - Tech, daily countdown to Van Halen concert and the default blue clock. Chumby Unboxed And Unpacked In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peeling out with Rotato Anybody reading really like peeling fruits and vegetables by hand? This is a job destined for machines. When I first spotted Rotato in the store I thought: hey, that looks like a lot easier way of peeling potatoes, fruit and vegetables. And at less than $9 at Wal-mart, it seemed worth a try. The only assembly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peeling out with Rotato Anybody reading really like peeling fruits and vegetables by hand? This is a job destined for machines. When I first spotted Rotato in the store I thought: hey, that looks like a lot easier way of peeling potatoes, fruit and vegetables. And at less than $9 at Wal-mart, it seemed worth a try. The only assembly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peeling out with Rotato Anybody reading really like peeling fruits and vegetables by hand? This is a job destined for machines. When I first spotted Rotato in the store I thought: hey, that looks like a lot easier way of peeling potatoes, fruit and vegetables. And at less than $9 at Wal-mart, it seemed worth a try. The only assembly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peeling out with Rotato Anybody reading really like peeling fruits and vegetables by hand? This is a job destined for machines. When I first spotted Rotato in the store I thought: hey, that looks like a lot easier way of peeling potatoes, fruit and vegetables. And at less than $9 at Wal-mart, it seemed worth a try. The only assembly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peeling out with Rotato Anybody reading really like peeling fruits and vegetables by hand? This is a job destined for machines. When I first spotted Rotato in the store I thought: hey, that looks like a lot easier way of peeling potatoes, fruit and vegetables. And at less than $9 at Wal-mart, it seemed worth a try. The only assembly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Siren HD harpies Click To Play Hmmcast #175 (download links at bottom of post) Scary Google search fact: searching for harpies, results in a sponsored link result for herpes. Searching Live and the spiffy new Yahoo search do not offer a similarly creepy sponsored result. What are harpies? In Greek mythology, Encyclopedia Mythica™: Harpies were described as beautiful, winged maidens. Later [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Siren HD harpies Click To Play Hmmcast #175 (download links at bottom of post) Scary Google search fact: searching for harpies, results in a sponsored link result for herpes. Searching Live and the spiffy new Yahoo search do not offer a similarly creepy sponsored result. What are harpies? In Greek mythology, Encyclopedia Mythica™: Harpies were described as beautiful, winged maidens. 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Later [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Siren HD harpies Click To Play Hmmcast #175 (download links at bottom of post) Scary Google search fact: searching for harpies, results in a sponsored link result for herpes. Searching Live and the spiffy new Yahoo search do not offer a similarly creepy sponsored result. What are harpies? In Greek mythology, Encyclopedia Mythica™: Harpies were described as beautiful, winged maidens. Later [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tablet PC users will like Sketchcast for non-commercial usage The first thing I thought of was the Tablet PC when I saw Sketchcast as a delicious popular post in my RSS reader this morning. With Sketchcast you can share drawings with or without voice all through a pen-friendly Flash interface in the browser (Firefox or IE). I made a mockup of Hmmcast #174 entirely [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tablet PC users will like Sketchcast for non-commercial usage The first thing I thought of was the Tablet PC when I saw Sketchcast as a delicious popular post in my RSS reader this morning. With Sketchcast you can share drawings with or without voice all through a pen-friendly Flash interface in the browser (Firefox or IE). I made a mockup of Hmmcast #174 entirely [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn the basics of a foreign language for free online There are two languages that would come in handy if you live in the United States and like to travel to neighboring countries: French (for Montreal and Quebec, Canada) and Spanish (Mexico). Our middle son is currently taking Spanish and when I saw the language learning site trymango.com this morning, he was the first person [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn the basics of a foreign language for free online There are two languages that would come in handy if you live in the United States and like to travel to neighboring countries: French (for Montreal and Quebec, Canada) and Spanish (Mexico). Our middle son is currently taking Spanish and when I saw the language learning site trymango.com this morning, he was the first person [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn the basics of a foreign language for free online There are two languages that would come in handy if you live in the United States and like to travel to neighboring countries: French (for Montreal and Quebec, Canada) and Spanish (Mexico). Our middle son is currently taking Spanish and when I saw the language learning site trymango.com this morning, he was the first person [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn the basics of a foreign language for free online There are two languages that would come in handy if you live in the United States and like to travel to neighboring countries: French (for Montreal and Quebec, Canada) and Spanish (Mexico). Our middle son is currently taking Spanish and when I saw the language learning site trymango.com this morning, he was the first person [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learn the basics of a foreign language for free online There are two languages that would come in handy if you live in the United States and like to travel to neighboring countries: French (for Montreal and Quebec, Canada) and Spanish (Mexico). Our middle son is currently taking Spanish and when I saw the language learning site trymango.com this morning, he was the first person [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warhawk for the PS3 Some may think Warhawk is a Halo wannabe, but there are some interesting elements that lend to different strategies by being able to pilot an airplane. Take your fight to the air or keep it on the ground. It’s kind of fun sending missiles after people on the ground. Once Halo 3 comes out in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warhawk for the PS3 Some may think Warhawk is a Halo wannabe, but there are some interesting elements that lend to different strategies by being able to pilot an airplane. Take your fight to the air or keep it on the ground. It’s kind of fun sending missiles after people on the ground. Once Halo 3 comes out in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warhawk for the PS3 Some may think Warhawk is a Halo wannabe, but there are some interesting elements that lend to different strategies by being able to pilot an airplane. Take your fight to the air or keep it on the ground. It’s kind of fun sending missiles after people on the ground. Once Halo 3 comes out in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warhawk for the PS3 Some may think Warhawk is a Halo wannabe, but there are some interesting elements that lend to different strategies by being able to pilot an airplane. Take your fight to the air or keep it on the ground. It’s kind of fun sending missiles after people on the ground. Once Halo 3 comes out in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neo-Geo invasion arrives on Xbox Live Arcade with Fatal Fury Special A lot of great memories go with Fatal Fury Special on the Neo Geo. I vividly recall receiving the package with the Neo Geo system. Had to special order it through one of those mail order places. It was like $700 just for the system and most games were $150 each. With today’s release on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neo-Geo invasion arrives on Xbox Live Arcade with Fatal Fury Special A lot of great memories go with Fatal Fury Special on the Neo Geo. I vividly recall receiving the package with the Neo Geo system. Had to special order it through one of those mail order places. It was like $700 just for the system and most games were $150 each. With today’s release on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neo-Geo invasion arrives on Xbox Live Arcade with Fatal Fury Special A lot of great memories go with Fatal Fury Special on the Neo Geo. I vividly recall receiving the package with the Neo Geo system. Had to special order it through one of those mail order places. It was like $700 just for the system and most games were $150 each. With today’s release on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mad Catz investor swag Ok, well maybe it’s not swag per se as the title suggests, but it’s among the nicer shareholder snail mail packages I’ve ever received. Click To Play Hmmcast #170 downloads PSP .mp4 (480×272) iPod .mp4 (640×480) Windows .wmv (1480×1080 HD) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mad Catz investor swag Ok, well maybe it’s not swag per se as the title suggests, but it’s among the nicer shareholder snail mail packages I’ve ever received. Click To Play Hmmcast #170 downloads PSP .mp4 (480×272) iPod .mp4 (640×480) Windows .wmv (1480×1080 HD) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hmmcast HD Official Trailer Hmmcast #169 mp4 PSP/iPod, wmv 720p Watch Hmmcast #169 One of the things Blip.tv offers video publishers is the opportunity to upload a trailer. I thought long and hard about the perfect trailer to describe the weekday Hmmcasts. Here’s my first effort. It’s not videoed in stone and a different one could be produced. Interested in feedback, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hmmcast HD Official Trailer Hmmcast #169 mp4 PSP/iPod, wmv 720p Watch Hmmcast #169 One of the things Blip.tv offers video publishers is the opportunity to upload a trailer. I thought long and hard about the perfect trailer to describe the weekday Hmmcasts. Here’s my first effort. It’s not videoed in stone and a different one could be produced. Interested in feedback, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Proof that soap under the eaves deters bees Hmmcast #168 mp4 PSP/iPod, wmv 720p Remember my problem with bees building hives (#152) in our eaves? I learned that rubbing soap under the eaves (#153) would deter the bees from rebuilding hives. I tried it out and over a week later it’s time to see if it actually worked. How about that, a green-friendly way to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Proof that soap under the eaves deters bees Hmmcast #168 mp4 PSP/iPod, wmv 720p Remember my problem with bees building hives (#152) in our eaves? I learned that rubbing soap under the eaves (#153) would deter the bees from rebuilding hives. I tried it out and over a week later it’s time to see if it actually worked. How about that, a green-friendly way to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tux spotted on Jack in the Box monitor Hmmcast #167 mp4 Behind the Hmmcast Viewers will notice a dramatic video quality improvement in today’s Hmmcast over most previous ones (download and compare to last Thursday’s Hmmcast). I’m also working on providing video for other formats besides the web and iPod. Since this Hmmcast experiment began at the beginning of the year I’ve been primarily focused [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What would you do with a million dollars? Save? Spend? Squander? Hmmcast #166 mp4 Maybe you already have a million or more dollars, maybe not, but the question is what would you do if someone gave you a million bones? Would you save it? Invest it? Spend it? Squander it? I doubt many people would admit to the latter. I find the answer people give to this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas in August with Llamasoft’s Space Giraffe Hmmcast #165 mp4 After spending countless hours playing Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar, I was instantly transformed into a lifelong Jeff Minter / Llamasoft fan, the programmer behind the best version of the quarter chomper Tempest on any console system to date. 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There is a more expensive pro version for $499, but I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Xbox Live Arcade Track & Field Hmmcast #162 mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bee work then fun play with Madden 2008 Hmmcast #161 mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1080p puzzle game Piyotama for PS3 Hmmcast #160 mp4 Last Thursday Sony released Piyotama the first puzzle game for the PS3 that’s available for download in the Playstation store. The price, a refreshing $2.99 rather than $4.99-$9.99 where most of the PS3 titles have been at to date. Piyotama has been added to the growing native 1080p PS3 games list. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Google and Microsoft offer additional storage options Hmmcast #159 mp4 Since Google improved upon their Gmail spam filtering and auto-deletion, I haven’t had any problems with the 2.8 GB (and growing still, right?) storage space allotted, but that doesn’t stop the Google Giants from offering additional storage to others who might need or want it — at a fee. Using Google Purchase Storage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursawday 666 … 665 hours and counting down Hmmcast #158 mp4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oreo Cakesters reminiscent of Twinkies and just as fatty Hmmcast #157 mp4 We saw these Oreo Cakesters at the store and picked up a box of them. They are good. Too good. Damn you, Nabisco! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Xbox 360 HD-DVD player unboxing and first HD-DVD thoughts Hmmcast #156 mp4 Since Microsoft announced the reduced price and Toshiba made the 5 HD-DVD videos for free offer, we’ve been waiting for the first retail store in our area to offer the deal. On the first of August we visited the local retailers and none of them knew about the deal. A week later [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Car trunk sounds Hmmcast #155 mp4 One of the first things we noticed about the PT Cruiser was the sound of the trunk opening. 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Show me the sign of victory! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yahoo Finance Market Tracker Real-Time Quotes and Screener 2.0.9 Hmmcast #146 mp4 This morning I signed up for a free 30 day trial (credit card required) of the Yahoo Finance Market Tracker Real-Time Quotes and Screener service (Disclaimer: I own YaHOO stock). After 30 days if I decide to keep it the cost is around 13 bones a month. It’s a Java program that streams [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website $19.99 Wii Pistol Hmmcast #145 mp4 This Wii Pistol looks badass, I just had to order one from Penguin United. $22.81 USD after standard 1-3 day shipping. Peguin United is located in San Francisco, CA, USA. Yes, they take PayPal and they offer a tracking receipt. Ordered on Sunday and arrived Wednesday. 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My legs! I can’t …. get … out. Swirling toward the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Outside work cleaning and refinishing table and chairs Hmmcast #140 mp4 It’s supposed to be a record heat day tomorrow and was getting hot today, so it was time to choose some outside work with water involved. This table needed a lot of work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Picking stocks by name strategy Hmmcast #139 mp4 As mentioned last week, my wife and I have begun a friendly stock competition. We each started with $500 and we’re going to see how each of us does. I’m blogging about the picks and her first pick was 20 shares of SHOR at $12.15 a share. As of this writing she’s made [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gearing up for our first bike ride together ever Hmmcast #138 mp4 My wife may correct my tattered memory but I believe the bike ride we took Wednesday night was our first bike ride ever together. This September we will be married 18 years. Our oldest teen was there to catch us gearing up. Hmm Ad: Gifts under $50 from Sharper Image Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live Saw, Die Hard Hmmcast #137 mp4 Hmm Ad: Gifts under $50 from Sharper Image Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to press and grill hamburgers Hmmcast #135 mp4 For $4.99 we picked up the hamburger press, a handy tool for your grilling arsenal this summer. Eat your heart out, Rachael Ray! Hmm Ad: Shop by Wireless carrier - find a new cell phone Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reel Deal High Roller and Mystic Forest Hmmcast #134 mp4 Back in October 2005, I reviewed my first MMORPC experience with Reel Deal Vegas Casino Experience. No, the ‘c’ is not a typo for ‘g’ (games), it’s for Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Casino. Today I checked out the newer versions which add two new floors to the growing online casino. 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An article in the June 2007 issue of Playboy describes the mistake me made that got him caught. When he got out he turned author and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Too bad Ask3D isn’t truly 3D Hmmcast #126 mp4 Video: Just Ask3D I was excited by the name of the new Ask.com search engine. I’ve owned stock in Ask.com since before they were bought by Barry Diller and banished the butler. Must say the changes made since the acquisition have left me feeling more and more remorseful for buying the stock. Particular the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Board games people play Hmmcast #123 mp4 What board games do you own? I looked through a list of ours today and was surprised at what I ’saw’. 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Hmmcast #118 mp4 featuring music by AchillesHmm Ad: High quality Skype phones - adaptor can forward the skype calls to cell phones Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Play that funky tune, saw boy Hmmcast #117 mp4Going to kick today’s Hmmcast out early since yesterday was late. It’s ThurSAWday after all, you deserve it. The timestamp will be altered to read 4:20 once that time has passed, however.Hmm Ad: R2D2 Interactive Droid - mention Darth Vader and R2 shakes with fear, Princess Leia invokes whistles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My green thumb smarts, what does your garden look like? Hmmcast #116 mp4Day 3 of the navel gazing continues and this time I’m really digging the dirt by sharing what’s happening in my garden. Warning: there is some serious birds and bees action happening in today’s Hmmcast. Safe for work? Yes, but barely! 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How long does it take to boot Windows Vista? Hmmcast #113 mp4When I last visited boot-up times for Windows XP (Hmmcast #65) Bill left the comment that he’d be interested to see how long it took Windows Vista to load. Today I recorded the process and as you might expect, Windows Vista loads faster.Hmm Ad: Shop by Wireless carrier - find a new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Xbox 360 Elite unboxed Hmmcast #106 mp4 Purchased my second batch of Microsoft Points today for the Elite: $62.50+tax for 5,000 points. Still haven’t played any of our games in the disc tray yet, it’s all been Xbox Live arcade action so far. My second purchase will probably be the puzzle game Luxor 2. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How do you repair a snapped lawn mower starter cord? Hmmcast #105 mp4 Maybe I should Google this one. 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