Episode #0

This is the zeroth episode of Pointless Rants (of course it’s zero-indexed, it’s a technology podcast).

In this episode of Pointless Rants we did the following:

• Introduced ourselves – where we’re from, who we are.
• Tom talked about Linux distributions coordinating their distribution schedules so that people will take Linux more seriously.
• Tom introduced us to the amazing, searchable repository of http://koders.com
• Trevor confessed about how he cheats at Facebook games using GreaseMonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748)
• Steve droned on about functional programming languages and got distracted by chat messages. (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html) (http://www.lisp.org)
  
• We all discussed our different philosophies on laptop selection.
• Trevor introduced us to some of the new features of Windows 7 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/)
• Tom informed us that it usually isn’t a good idea to pretend to be 10 years old.
• Tom and Steve griped about the many shortcomings of Hotmail (http://v3.izymail.com/Default.aspx)

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