#057 -- The Apple iPhone -- Is the iPhone the cell phone reinvented? Or is it mobile computing as it ought to be? How does this relate to Google's philosophy that the network is the platform? Is this the smartphone that Bluejack has been longing for, or just another expensive toy tempting people in the wrong direction?

#056 -- Sony Reader -- In which the etch-a-sketch comes of age... and becomes the first cool new display technology in years. Sony, however, is not content with being the first mainstream company to make this new technology available to Americans, it's also starting yet another standards war by intoducing one more proprietary ebook format into an already crowded field. Is the result totally lame? The future of reading? Is this the gotta-have tech of the 2006 Christmas season? What will it take to win the reader wars?

<b>#055</b> -- Season 2 / Google Office -- Overclocked returns with season 2. Bluejack re-introduces himself, and the concept of Overclocking the human being. Concludes with a brief introduction of Google's evolving online office suite. Music by Gomez and Hallucinogen.

#052 -- Network Neutrality -- Beginning with an interesting update on space-based weapons, this show represents Overclocked's return to active production. The main topic -- Network Neutrality -- covers proposed changes to the architecture of the internet to give major telcos more control over the content that is delivered to your machine, and in particular to make more money off content producers (such as podcasters, to name one small example).

#051 -- Getting Back to Cool -- Hey, this is a miscellaneous little show! Quick commentary on the slip of Microsoft's Windows Vista; a quick look at the Babelcast podcast/vodcast (http://www.flexatone.net/podcast.html) which is a sort of a cool multimedia update on the old http://www.jodi.org concept. Then we launch into conversations with listeners. Thanks for your emails, and keep 'em coming! Music is Khan (Cube 40), Doof (Home on the Strange), Hedningarna (Grodan Widergrenen), Tricky (Stay).

#048 -- Tech -- The Destination of Technology. Where is technology going? Are humans going to be uploaded into a virtual reality? Will technology become so ubiquitous that it is in fact part of the human body? What is the role and function of technology in our lives now, and where is that going? Music by the Art of Noise (Beat Box), Hedningarna (Hoeglorfen), Fatboy Slim (In Heaven), Aegis (Phaselift), Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (In Like the Rose).

#047 -- Tech -- Apple to Buy Palm? Bluejack considers the merits of the case, discusses the disadvantages of corporate acquisition, evaluates the buyability of Palm, and considers the destination of the digital assistant market. With music from Front 242 (Masterhit), Afro Celt Sound System (Hypnotica), the Sugarcubes (Cold Sweat), and the Pogues (Tombstone).

#043 -- Tech -- The advent of the E-book. For years the E-book has been a killer app that's just around the corner. But until now, nobody has ever made an ebook that even comes close to a product that will please readers. Will 2006, at last, be the year of the EBook? A discussion of the technology and the trends that will drive the first successful EBook. Background music by DJ Cheb-i-Sabbah (Raju Vedalu), Laurie Anderson (Speak My Language), Juno Reactor (Silver), Gillian Welch (Ruination Day, Pt 2).

#036 -- Tech -- Studies in imperfection including the never ending failure of personal digital assistants to actually live up to inherent promise of the device, and the abject failure of email to be as simple and effective as it should be. Music by DJ Cheb-i-Sabbah, Hallucinogen, Jethro Tull, and Mozart.

#030 -- Tech -- Before wandering off into a lala land of incoherent software engineering minutiae that will be of very little interest to anyone who doesn't already know the difference between C and C++, Bluejack discusses Microsoft's payoff to Real Networks in a bid to put together an Anti-Apple coalition to take down iTunes. Background music by DJ Shadow (Organ Donor), Timbuk3 (Disn***land), Fatboy Slim (Ya Mama), Sunday All Over the World (Kneeling at the Shrine), Michael Nyman (Drowning by Numbers).

#026 -- Tech -- Much is being made over problems at Microsoft. Disaffected employees, a brain drain to Google, a large, slow-moving bureaucracy. This all may be true, but is this really a bad thing? Microsoft is a somewhat different company than tech observers seem to think it is. It plays by different rules, and it plays for different stakes. Rumors of its demise may be exaggerated.

#022 - Tech - Getting the podshow back on track: more positive in spirit than the Katrina stuff, and looking forward to new work. I'm working with the libsyn guys on performance and scalability now, so a few quick notes on that.

#019 - Tech - With the launch of Google Talk, we see both an incredible show of chutzpah with the search engine giant taking on perhaps the most oversaturated software market on the net, and another component of GoogleOS delivered under the radar of the major OS players.

#016 - New Audio Equipment - This is an experiment in audio production only. There's virtually no content at all, other than Bluejack's trials and travails trying to figure out how audio cables work. Hopefully this will be the last experimental meta show in the series. It can only get better from here!

#014 - Tech - This program is a pile of scrap metal, some junk, maybe some gems! NASA shuttle landing; Debian v. Ubuntu v. Fedora v. ?; Bicycle brake pads & cone wrenches; The evils of PHP; Podcasts reviewed; Kind words from listeners; New equipment on order!

Show #013: Robots! Creepy Japanese Doll Androids! Baizhixing, the Weird Robot Doll (more here)! Furby is Back! Roach Robots!

#008: IBM announces that it will terminate sales and support of OS/2 over the next year and a half. What? OS/2 was still alive? What can we learn from the life and death of OS/2: Was Microsoft opportunistic or Macchiavellian? Do computer companies understand the difference between hardware and software?

#005: Podcasting and self-publishing have a lot in common, both good and bad. But one problem affecting both forms is the difficulty in finding good stuff. Could there be a common solution?