Things can get so crazy at times, and I really do mean at times.  One of the more interesting topics was the concept of the “Old North Church” in Boston, the one from the fabled poem “One if by land, and two if by sea”, is now going to be running LED lights to save on electricity, warming, and replacement light bulbs.  Paul Revere never had it so lucky.  Of course, Nick and Benjamin talked about the Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFL’s) and the potential problems with them.  Nick noted, however, that the radio studio had distinctly made an effort to include different resources to be green in it’s expansion.  From recycled tires to 40 year old wood used in other places, this was an amazing advance. 

Forty-eight percent of teens bought no music CD’s in 2007… which indicates that the downloadable music concept has taken hold.  Nick and Benjamin waxed nostalgic over 8-Tracks and Vinyl, while the rest of the folks realized that the CD was headed the way of the dinosaur.  Benjamin did note that most on-line music companies do give you some leeway to re-download purchased songs again, but the problem may be compounded by the fact that about ½ of all internet usage is still 56k dial-up.

Throughout the show, we talked on other cool things.  For instance, Cyrillic keyboards were part of the topics, as well as the fancy new OLED keyboards which allow you to use any images you wish on your keys (for $500, it should be clad in gold!).  Desktop publishing monitors were mentioned, where the screen is taller, rather than wider, allowing you to see the design as it would look on the paper, all at once.  Nick also asked about the concept of using an LCD projector as a standard screen.

Liz asked about multiple users on a computer, and if it would slow the computer down.  Other than the volume of space on the hard drive, Benjamin noted that this would be miniscule.  Eric called in with PDF problems which sound like a reinstallation of Acrobat reader is in store.  BJ asked about the collapse (albeit short) of YouTube via a mistake made by Pakistan and an Internet Service Provider that wiped out access to YouTube around the world.  We thought Mark asked about CMOS batteries (oops), but instead it was a Uninterruptible Power Supply, and also if he should go for Vista, or XP...  Ben's answer is... on the audio files below!

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