Episode 47 Show Notes
Where Ed an Joe demonstrate 1st hand what podfading is... Podfading according to the Urban Dictionary:

A podcast that after a while becomes less and less frequently updated and then blinks out altogether. Alternately a podcast that is going strong and suddenly stops.

Well, that's us. We're fading off.
Listen and hear how and why. Meet us over at TheGreenTax. The Green Tax is the money you pay extra to live a life green. >trademark.

Thanks to all of our guests. See you over at TheGreenTax.

Thanks to our sponsor.

Ed learned:
* there's a whole lot to talk about technology, and that the average joe doesn't listen to podcasts :)

Favorite episodes:
* JOe: web2.0
* ED: 1st and 10

Quotes from this episode:
* we're like strong and hard and then we're going to fade off...
* we were trying to sell to people who didn't have money.

Links from the show:
* TheGreenTax.com

Taco time question of the week:
What was your favorite episode?

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Episode 46 Show Notes
Ed and Joe talk about the famous Flickr photo sharing site.

This place is great to use to share photos with your family. It's free, (and you can pay for more privledges..).

• Order prints from it...
• Save the gigabits on email attachements !
• Share to all, all at once !
• be social...
• form groups, communities...
• a great way to advertize.
• able to make photos private / public on a default or on a per photo basis
• see everyone's pictures as a continuous stream...
• click on our flickr badge ( widget ) on the 2gnj.com site (right side, down).
• auto post pictures from your mobile phone ! ( moblogging...)
• it's secure, you can control your privacy.

5 great reasons to start using today:
1) share pictures with others...
2) share pictures with the world, advert your picture taking capability...
3) great way to advertise something...
4) great way to build community relationships with others...
5) great way to backup your photos...
5+) great way to order / print hardcopies -- almost as cheap as printing yourself.

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Quotes from this episode:

• all you had to say was bikinis and i was there...
• "revenue share"
• i blogged that you blogged... :)

Links from the show:

• flickr main -- http://www.flickr.com
• 2gnj.com on flickr -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/26057688@N00/
• photobucket, another photo sharing site -- http://photobucket.com/
• shutterfly, sharing, but no social -- http://www.shutterfly.com/
• shozu, upload photos from phone -- http://www.shozu.com/portal/index.do

Taco time question of the week:

• If you're in Rome and you're listening, send us a note...
• how many taco pictures are there flickr?

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Episode 45 Show Notes
Where Ed and Joe talk with Leonard (CISSP) about Privacy and that you don't have it anymore in today's connected world.

What is your reasonable expectation of privacy when your information is all over the place, information that you've provided knowingly, but maybe unaware about all the places that that information will end up.

Participating in a customer loyalty program means serving the Mini Mes of the world.

Who cares if they know you bought their books or not?

Social engineering based on the information easily accessible on the internet can lead to your identity being lifted.

Social networking Web 2.0 sites, like MySpace.com are littered with social information waiting to be used to gleam a false identity.

Understand what information is out there, and consciously choosing what information you're willing to provide / allow to be out there to places like video rental stores.

Creating a false identity is a federal crime.

Make up your own security question / answer. e.g. what street were you born on? Venus is a butterfly.

Use an arbitrary question and password for web registrations and keep them in a freely available and encrypted software safe, e.g. passwordsafe, roboform.

Ask for the courtesy card, or someone else like the person behind you in the grocery store.

Try putting your phone number into Google in the form (999) 999-9999. There's a link to remove your name form google lookup.

Economics. Businesses aren't properly incentivizaed to protect my information.

Use a credit card when buying something online. It's federally mandated that if there are fraudulent charges on the visa, they bank has to eat it.

Identities for sale online for $14 < $18. They're so cheap because there's so many of them out there.

Quotes from this episode:

• There are things that are against the law and then there are things that are criminal.
• no thank you.
• who's your daddy?
• I've got lots of maiden names.
• Venus is a butterfly.
• I provide the same information to nothing.
• One more thing...

Links from the show:

• Leonard's blog
• Google Maps is spying on my cat, says freaked out BB reader
• Identity Theft - Reduce The Risk
• EIN Fraud, Identity Theft and Perjury in the Case of RC Sproul, Jr.�s application to Wacovia Bank for Demand Deposit Checking Account and Credit Card Merchant Account, and his obtaining of said banking services by knowingly making false statements
• PasswordSafe
• (TJ) Maxx Identity Data Loss!
• Your Identity Could Cost Just Fourteen Dollars

Taco time question of the week:
Have you ever had your identity stolen?

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Episode 44 Show Notes
The anniversary show, where we play a memory of episode 1. Then, Ed and Joe talk about why one would be motivated to convert their diesel car to use vegetable oil ( not same as biodiesel ).

• cutting cost to drive
• doing it for the earth, lower the carbon footprint
• lower our dependence on foreign oil
• vegetable oil is a renewable resource, and
• because Joe wants a Prius.

The government is not supportive of you converting to use alternate energy because they're losing revenue on you buying gas.

Quotes from this episode:

• i got to pull down larry's pants...did you do it kneeling?
• is that extra black?
• you hand it to em, and take their money?
• motivations for vegetable oil conversions...
• sexual reassignment surgery
• LA seems to be the area for conversions.
• don't punish us for trying to make the earth more green.
• oooooh, french friesssszz...the vegetable car...
• :) I got it right :) yea for Ed.
• why don't you just buy a car that gets 46 mpg ?
• our buddy the sun.
• use your phone device thingy, and call the show.
• you want to go over them again?
• do you have a prius on your amazon wishlist?

Links from the show:

• beyond the wall of sleep,
• Timmy's
• link for LA place to convert prius to electric car, California Cars, california cars
• State makes big fuss over local couple's vegetable oil car fuel
• link to senator and IL billf
• Straight vegetable oil as diesel fuel,

Taco time question of the week:

• what's the byproduct of burning vegetable oil in a car?
• what's the impact on the environment of a vegetable oil burning car?
• why would organic be a viable way of growing fuel?

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Episode 43 Show Notes
where ed and joe talk about what it takes to train the brain.

common memorization techniques:

• the linking technique.
• telling a story
• singing a song
• doing a poem
• massaging the hands
• associating with the senses
• peglists
• rote

• neumonic is not heuristic. heuristic is what joe was trying to remember to say.

• memory is

1) encoding, parsing, interpolate, or otherwise perceive things
2) storing the memory
3) recall
the most important part is (1)

• you need to pay attention to what you want to remember.

• short term vs. long term memory

• recall is easier if your brain is in the same state (emotional / alertness) as when it was encoding the memory.

• linking concepts with the senses
• hearing
• smelling
• taste
• sight

• memory is easier to remember if it's consistent with your need to make sense out of things.

• you remember what makes sense, not really what happened, e.g. the witness and the ambulance.

• ed smells to go back to 1st grade.

• the Pavlovian classical condition of trigger / response.

• waitresses and waiters can remember a big table's set of orders, how?

• 7 is the magic number, a good semantic chunk.

Quotes from this episode:

• new hampshire is a hampster
• the sillier, the more destructive and memorable it is the better.
• a chain made into a belt is more fashionable, no, making it explode, that * would be memorable !
• garbage in is garbage out
• don't do what i said
• we're sex neutral, we're neutered
• today's the 29th, the day before my birthday.

Links from the show:

• stroke awareness month
• kevin trudeau, the memory info-mercial dude

Taco time question of the week:

• do you remember what ed was going to do with that chain?
• alternate: is there a perfume that brings back a memory, share with us your memory!

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Episode 42 Show Notes
Where Ed talks with Tim Johnston of the Communication Access Center.   We talked using the Video Relay Service (VRS).  Ed called Tim on the phone and spoke to him directly through an interpreter that he could see with his webcam.  The Video Relay Service makes much easier to communicate with a deaf person than ever before. 

Download a transcript of the interview here

Ed also votes for Jordin Sparks on the podcast.

Big thanks to Thom for the transcription. 

Quotes from this episode:

Links from the show:
www.cacrelay.com

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/videorelay.html

Transcript of the interview

edisonhouse.com

Taco time question of the week:

In what year was the Communication Access Center established?  What law passed the US congress that correlates to it?

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Episode 41 Show Notes
Where Ed and Joe discuss the technology of GREEN.

to be GREEN is a choice:

• buy a car with better mpg, or like a hybrid.
• to be green means to have less impact, to be good to the earth, like tread light, to be carbon neutral, to use less resources, or a sustainable resource, e.g. corn fuel, vegi oil, etc.
• the CA tree hugger car pool sticker for hybrids, govt. subsidy, promote use of alternate fuels, etc.
• the GREEN Tax, expect to pay more to be green friendly, not a good solution for promoting movement toward the moral good of green. sigh
• working the return on investment equation makes it obvious that buying a prius is not to save money

a common thread:

• being a steward of the earth
• being eco friendly
• having low impact
• alternate fuels
• shift to using sustainable resources

alternate fuel sources aren't efficient, cost too much:

• big fans, windmills, fan farms...
• hydro energy
• solar panels, tap into the grid, credit on electricity fed back into the grid

Imagine a president that set a national goal to be eco friendly

things you can do now:

• replace incandescent bulbs with high efficiency fluorescents
• replace furnace with high efficiency furnace
• replace manual thermostat with a programmable thermostat

a typical dilemma:

• it takes more overall energy to recycle, it costs more, it smells, it's stinky, it takes time
• why do it then? so as to not process the earth from nice pretty resources to ugly smelly land fills? to keep the bottles and cans off the road?

the transition is hard:

• returning cans to the store during the first years of the MI law

If laws would be passed to make it cost more to not be green than to be green, people will be green... e.g. cigarette smoking drops when the cost of a pack of cigarettes goes up.

who's against us being green?

• fuel cos
• auto cos
• etc.

Technology innovations can close the gap between cost / benefit equation that drives people to not choose to be eco friendly

• e.g. turning the car off when engine not needed, to be effectively restarted instantaneously

Quotes from this episode:

• To be green means to be techy.
• Green is in, go green go white go green go white....
• did your dog just fart?
• people are part of the ecosystem, get with it
• be careful, you're talking about large people
• working the equation
• hot air rises
• if you're using less energy, you're paying less for that energy
• before the gore man
• we're not a meijer's
• incentivized
• how are we going to make a hummer?
• we'll be in the Stud-i-o, because that's where the studs are....

Links from the show:

• al gore, an inconvenient truth // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth
  
• toyota going all hybrid // http://www.motorauthority.com/cars/toyota/toyota-cutting-hybrid-costs/
  
• vegi oil cars // http://www.geocities.com/vegoilcar/
  
• ca commuter lane sticker passes for hybrids
• the equation on a blog
• the expense of gas, the expectation of over > $4 this year.
• wave action generates energy, link
• FDR and the tennisee valley dam project...
• engdget link on dubai skyscrapper
• cnet car tech podcast //

• Treehugger website // http://www.treehugger.com

• The Lighthouse: An Innovative Green Skyscraper // http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/the_lighthouse.php#1

• Self-Sufficient Skyscraper // http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/selfsufficient.php

• 5 reasons for the eco-tech boom // http://gigaom.com/2007/05/16/5-reasons-for-the-eco-tech-boom/

Taco time question of the week:
Are you paying the green tax? and why?

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Episode 40 Show Notes

Where Joe is enunciating his words. Ed and joe talk about how to sell on eBay, part 3 of a 3 part episode -- according to Ed, the last part.

Joe has lots of his wife's stuff that he wants to sell instead of just throwing out to the curb. How to do this easy? Ed tells joe how to do it hard. Joe presses for the easy does it button. Ed comes through. Listen as they banter back and forth but get the job done.

• gauge the market. research current listings to find out what worked, what didn't work, what the going price will be. look for running and completed auctions. check
• hit the sell button and make a listing. category, title, description, gallery picture, lots of pictures.
• title is first thing that people see. use gallery pic, mfg model number, etc.
• what's a good description is...
• what's a good color...
• xtras cost money, 5 and 10 you to death.
• what's a good picture?
• specify shipping costs, use ebay free calculator widget, the calc is not always accurate.
• ed says use a visit counter
• be clear where you're will to ship to, e.g. continental US.
• usps fixed priced box are great
• joe advocates for our listener's understanding.
• any time you make a change to your listing, it's visible
• make / no make buy questions publicly visible.
• decide starting, reserve, buy it now price.
• you never want do end up selling anything with a frown on your face.
• choose to start your auction if you want it to end on a certain, high buying day like saturday.
• start the auction *****
• revisit page, monitor auction, answer bidder questions quickly and accurately and correctly
• don't shil bid
• send a congrat to winner, invoice, and tell them when you going to ship when you get the money.
• give a tracking #
• follow-up with eBay dispute dept if you need to

Quotes from this episode:

• why is plates in america called china?
• yoric, he was a good man.
• it's not macacca china.
• it's not the 'n' word, that's another thing.
• describe, describe, describe.
• this china survive multiple basement floodings, sealed well during mold infestation.
• you can sell a potato chip with a picture of elvis in it.
• back to the here and now.
• that sounds girly
• i hate joe's rhetorical questions.
• should i be putting pictures up in my body?
• nothing in the picture's for sale except for this excellent piece of bone china.
• i'm just sayin
• so how's GUAM joe?
• because it's easy
• can i hit the go button now?
• i will know when they write me a check how well i've done. seems simple to me.
• what's attribution?
• EJ
• i don't know, i don't know, i don't know...
• you never want do end up selling anything with a frown on your face.
• you wait and you watch
• the smart people do
• don't be a loser
• no it says what a i say
• go get your dad, i need his visa to pay for this...
• it's a super secret number
• i've always been live
• there's always diet coke around the corner
• dad, what's format mean?
• let's make fun of julie instead !

Links from the show:

• http://ebay.com
• link to ebay charge schedules
• link to ebay scams avoidance tips

Taco time question of the week:

the forgotten question: Can you restrict your bidders to those with a minimum rating?
what are your selling techniques that really help you?

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Episode 39 Show Notes
Where we're talking about how to be a buy on eBay and not be scammed.

• Create a "strong" password
• use paypal or a special online type visa
• buy from reputable people with good ratings
• beware of confidence scams
• ask for pictures of identifying tags of actual item with model / serial # --> go to manufacturer's site for more info
• be okay to move on to next seller if you get any friction with questions, or something "feels" not right
• beware of sellers wanting to "side step" eBay by going outside on the side --> eBay provides infrastructure of buy /sell safety, e.g. escrow service for transaction
• never send money with western union use bank wire transfer

Quotes from this episode:

• i don't want to buy an item that's cheap, I want to buy an item that doesn't cost much.
• staples easy button
• you want to buy one of those things?
• your imagination sucks
• you know what a sporting event is joe?
• escrow, not escort service...
• say goodbye to dodge

Links from the show:

• Pic of Ed at the beach in LA
  
• eBay Spoof Email Tutorial
  

Taco time question of the week:

• what are some other buyer scams you should be aware of?

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Episode 38 Show Notes
Where we start the conversation to tell JOE how to sell a crap load of stuff in his basement on eBay.

Quotes from this episode:
If there's no buyer there's no seller either.
There's 2 sides to every schwartz.

Links from the show:
http://www.ebay.com

Taco time question of the week:
If you're a seller, what tricks and techniques are you using?

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