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 Simon Haynes on Halloween [64:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (50)

TOPIC:  Though there’s no Dave “Spooky” Saganaki this time, “Malicious” Mike Kastler has a blast doing an interview of his favorite author from down under – Simon Haynes!  Not only does Simon talk to us about his Hal Spacejock books – and Clunk, Hal’s robot sidekick – but also shares his take on new technology, programming vs. authorship, and a ton of other great stuff!

We’re always in the mood for Jay “Ghoulish” Garmon’s geek trivia (check out http://jaygarmon.net for more), and Mike rambles about current happenings in the tech world today.

Now, normally we’d have some cool sites to share – but with how interesting the talk was with Simon (and how unrestrained the time was without Dave), we just didn’t get a chance.  However … early on in the show Mike brings up an oldie but a goodie:

• Sharepod – Ever have a machine blow up on you and the only record of your music collection is on that iPod, but if you link it to a new machine you know it’ll only bring over the stuff you bought in the iTunes store and you’ll lose everything else and you’re really freaking out because that’s, like, your TUNES man, and omg what the heck is wrong with those Apple guys anyways that they won’t let you get your music off?  I mean, it’s YOUR music, right?  And you can’t get it off your iPod?  Well, calm down, stop freaking out, and just go get Sharepod – you may never go back to iTunes again!

Had to have some Halloween fun this week, so we started the show off with a little Ministry, and then tried to end with Johnathon Coulton’s RE: Your Brains!