Just when we were back on track…

Poor Hiren is down with a bronchial illness! We don’t want to be doing the wrong type of half episode (where only half of us show up), because believe me - Rich and I just yapping between ourselves is not just off-topic, but also very, very strange. We’ll leave it with the idea of bears and gimps, everyone should have two.

Therefore, we’re electing to spare you for a little…but never fear, our light-shedding insights and rapier wit will be back again with a full episode next week.

- Brett

The pictures are clickable for full size. Unfortunately no video because nothing I could find could support Vista. I couldn’t even get a screengrab of Aero in dynamic action.

Several more shots that were too big to put in the post.

- Richard

Hey all,

We just wanted to take a minute to let you know:

1) there is a small delay in this week’s episode due to fathers’ day; and,

2) we’re very sorry about that.

We DID record an episode, but it was sans one of our members, and that’s never a good thing. We are hoping to get it sorted out, but he lacks internet at the moment… of course, we’re discussing the possibility of original pirate material as Rich goes surfing for a WiFi connection in his car. Assuming he can find one of the nearly infinite unsecured, unencrypted hotspots, we’ll be in for a treat. We could even pretend it was part of the plan. If we’re really lucky, we might even get to hear him being arrested.

So if you see some funny looking dude parked down your street tomorrow night with a laptop and a headset, it could be an identity thief…or it could just be Rich.

- Brett

Look, If Im out with my laptop and someone invites me in to surf their internet, it would be rude to say no. Even if it is at 11pm. It’s not like cracking encrypted routers and stealing peoples info. If windows defaults to it of its own accord then I’m innocent, officer. Im doing it for the ‘cast, afterall.
- Richard

Well, I fixed podpress, but only just downgrading it totally. We can’t upgrade it at all now since it the guy who wrote it totally re-wrote the stats stuff which iTunes and the download/listen links are associated with which seems to be incompatible with our site.

Also, Hirens been working like a dog to try and get this site working in IE, but because IE is the most useless browser (As admitted by their own tech: We know we have a lot more work to do in addressing our consistency issues with CSS and furthering our coverage of these standards) on the planet the side bar drops to the bottom. For the love of anything that is good, use Firefox. Please. Even Opera will do. If you’re somewhere which doesnt have anything else installed buy a £5 USB stick and download portable Firefox and stick it on it. Not only can you then take a better browser around with you EVERYWHERE but it will also have all your passwords, favourites and whatever else saved and you won’t leave cookies on public computers by accident. You don’t have to install anything, you don’t need admin rights, you run it straight off the USB stick. Win Win Win.

- Richard

Hey everyone,

We just wanted to let you know about a trial we’re going to do for this week’s episode. Since one of our staffers is a bit under the weather, we were thinking of a way to have him talk a bit less, and we found it: an open forum.

That’s right, we’re taking live calls on Week 7. So if you want in, drop a comment or an e-mail and we’ll get you queued up. We’re not sure on all the topics yet, it’s going to be a rapid fire burst of some of this weeks big deals…we may come back to them next week for further discussion, but we want to hear what some of our listeners have to say.

We’ll be recording this week’s ep on Sunday at 3:30pm BST (10:30am EST)…so if you want on, make yourself available for an hour starting around then.

-Brett

According to the Inq and Nintendo Insider forum, the E3 showing of the Wii was supposibly just a gamecube with a Wii controller bolted on and all the “Wii” games were running on Gamecube hardware, whilst the demo boxes were just empty shells with blue lights. The bottom line is: does this really matter? They created a massive interest and they clearly stated it wasn’t about the system, it was about the controller and the interaction between user and game. The Wii is essentially a gamecube on steroids anyway, so why is this a big deal? We all know Zelda is going to arrive on both Wii and GC, and the game demos they had weren’t graphically ground breaking but that doesn’t meant they weren’t obviously fun.

- Richard