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20:41 – The last Rubenerd Show for 2005, isn't it… what's the word I'm thinking for… a word like sentimental but less soppy. In any event, talking about my new year's goals and why I have no resolutions (thank you Phil Gerbyshak), a review of the biggest year of my short life to date (what with starting uni, moving out of home and all) and what I hope to achieve in 2006. A time capsule episode so to speak, be interesting to listen to the same time next year. Have a fantastic new year!

Recorded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

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11:50 – The Rubenerd Show Christmas special, coming to you from my parents house in Selangor Malaysia, hence the lack of audio sound effects and music! Talking briefly about being back with family, waking up early in the morning and child enthusiasm, my mum having surgery (again!), Christmas time-zones and how America would just be waking up even though Christmas is over here, PG Wodehouse, Hugh Laurie and Google. Appearances in the background by Elke Schade, the official Rubenerd Show sister…

Recorded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

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09:00 – A shorter episode today because my flight to Singapore leaves in a few hours! Briefly talking about the trip, the Rubenerd Show Christmas 'unplugged' episodes coming up from Singapore and Malaysia, an adventure at Subway and an Aussie-sung Christmas song. See you on Sunday.

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

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20:00 – The last episode recorded in the Rubenerd Adelaide Studio until next year! Talking about improved show sound quality, my upcoming trip to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur for the Christmas holidays, recording the show from overseas (the 'unplugged' episodes starting episode 63), atheists celebrating Christmas, unreliable internet connections, adventures with GarageBand, Audacity and Gmail, and the execution of Van Tuong Nguyen and whilst I don't support capital punishment, he had to be.

Something To Think About Segment: The 2006 Holden Barina… a knockoff or a coincidence?

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Just saw the new 2006 Holden Barina.

… and the 2004 Hyundai Getz…

Hmm…

Just finished watching 9 to 5 the movie, brilliant movie!

From the IMDB: "Three female employees of a "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" find a way to turn the tables on him."

Aside from being side splitting (you could fill an entire comedy one-liners book with it!) it really is a rare glimpse into how sexist the workplace was even 20 years ago. I think these days guys tend to act fairly cynically towards feminists and their 'causes' but seeing how they were treated in this movie really makes you think. If they hadn't done what they did do its quite feasible that they would be treated like crap even today… some would argue they still are.

This is why ads like the LYNXjet commercials showing on television are really pissing me off. Are we going backwards in time here? Is it possible another 20 years will pass and we'll be back to the satirical world shown in the movie? I hope for the sake of our condition we're not.

I've now got a profile and account on Technorati!

Technorati is a site about blogs/weblogs/podcasts and the people behind them. What I think is pretty wicked is that you can type in a search term or phrase (such as… 'rubenerd') and it will search all the weblogs in its directory every few minutes for the term, and post the results in an easy-to-digest summary page, and in an RSS feed you can subscribe to. Brilliant.

Of course, if you've been into blogging for ages, you'd know about this already… but still.

http://technorati.com/profile/rubenerd

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20:00 – Early morning episode of show today, recorded while watching the Sunrise breakfast show. Taking about the latest news from the day, , weird songs, how I am a centre-leftie, iPodder changing it's name to Juice and why I still prefer it to the iTunes podcast feature, why I can't buy supermarket generic toilet paper (argh!), dead koalas on freeways, comparing Yahoo and Google for technical searches, reviewing CSS 2.0 Pocket Reference from O'Reilly Media and some further financial planning for the show.

Something To Think About Segment: How former Australian MP Malcom Fraser views the Liberal party today and how they're the most 'unliberal' party in Australia!

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

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20:00 – Talking today about making it all the way to number 60, and a Rubenerd announcement! Also discussing the different sense of humour in Australia, the UK, the US and Singapore, DSL woes and DSL modems that like to reset themselves every 20 minutes or less, blogs I like to read (John C. Dvorak, Lawrence Lessig and JD Lasica's Darknet), more financial problems with hosting, Microsoft's crappy new television ad campaign and how they keep rehashing and releasing the same crap, and an Ourmedia update.

Something To Think About Segment: Stealing street lamps!

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

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