The last time Webzine took place, a virtually unknown documentary filmmaker named Michael Moore presented the keynote. Five years later, Webzine is back with a renewed energy. On tonight’s show, we’ll talk with Eddie Codel, one of Webzine’s organizers about the event and why everyone should be in San Francisco on September 24 and 25.

Jacob Appelbaum went to Iraq for several months and blogged about his experiences. He documented the trip with a combination of video, text and photos to tell his story and offer advice to people interested in visiting the country. Following the Hurricane Katrina disaster, he made his way to Houston, Texas to speak with evacuees and went on to New Orleans where he’s helping with the recovery process and documenting the stories of locals who remain. Tonight, we’ll be talking with Jake on the show to get his perspective of the hurricane aftermath.

As always, we’ll be taking your calls live via 888.PIRILLO and Google Talk.

The following are the show notes for the September 15th, 2005 edition of the Chris Pirillo Show.

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Carlos Echenique

Carlos from PlanetAMD64.com wasn’t able to attend the Microsoft Personal Developers Conference but he’s been closely following all developments. There is a New UI for Office 12, the Windows Presentation Foundation was announced to replace DirectX in Vista, details on project Atlas. The Customer Technology Preview was announce for Windows Vista. This will be happening months before Beta 2 and will have monthly updates. This is an unprecedented level of access from Microsoft.

Eddie Codel

The last time Webzine took place, a virtually unknown documentary filmmaker named Michael Moore presented the keynote. Five years later, Webzine is back with a renewed energy. Eddie Codel is one of Webzine’s organizers and discussed why everyone should be in San Francisco on September 24 and 25.

Jacob Appelbaum

Jacob Appelbaum went to Iraq and blogged about his experiences. He documented the trip with a combination of video, text and photos to tell his story and offer advice to people interested in visiting the country. Following the Hurricane Katrina disaster, he made his way to Houston, Texas to speak with evacuees and went on to New Orleans where he’s helping with the recovery process and documenting the stories of locals who remain.

Tonight’s Calls

• Jake called in to create some controversy. He believes that if Google releases a web browser, then IE’s market share would drop at least by 50%. He feels that Internet Explorer has too many security problems and has failed to follow standards. Chris doesn’t disagree but has a feeling Google will use Firefox if they do release one and doesn’t think that Firefox is a viable replacement because of “UI issues.”
• Mike (mab631) wanted to know which feature Chris is looking forward to most in Windows Vista. Chris believes the UI standards and vector graphics will be the best feature as it will provide a clean, consistent, and elegant interface.
• Tedd called in from Pascagoula, Miss. He survived hurricane Katrina and only had minor flooding damage to his apartment. Tedd wanted to know how to get water out of his computer. Chris suggested vacuuming it out and allowing it to dry completely before plugging it in and using it. Distilled water can be used to flush out the sediment but again its very important to allow it to completely dry.
• David wanted to discuss Handheld computers. He heard Chris mention before that he hated the Palm devices and wanted to know why. Chris feels the Palm OS is very dated and hasn’t kept up with the times. More specifically David was wondering if PocketPC had FTP clients and is able to be more network aware. Chris suggested he check out RukSun Software for all kinds of networking clients. As far as which PPC to get, take a serious look at HP’s models. Chris suggested that this is probably not the best time to purchase a PPC because the Windows Mobile version 5 will soon be released and it introduces many improvements.
• David also asked whats the deal with BitTorrent and how does it compare with LimeWire. Chris explained that with bittorrent the client downloads bits of the files from multiple people at once time so things come down to faster. Chris recommends the Azureus Bittorrent client.
• David also wanted to know about anti-virus software and Symantec. Chris cannot stress enough to stay away from every product with Symantec in the name. Chris recommended Etrust. Many in the chatroom suggest NOD32.
• Jason from GeekStreak called in to tell us about the revolution controllers but then his mom hijacked the phone to pester Chris into setting a date for the Wedding with Ponzi. Right after this call Jason’s mom called David Letterman to bug him to marry the mother of his child already.

Sites Mentioned Tonight

• Webzine
• PlanetAMD64
• Jacob Appelbaum
• Geek Nostalgia
• Small Business Accounting 2006
• WyldRyde IRC Network
• WyldRyde Java Chat Script
• Maxthon IE Plugin
• Acid2 Test
• Opera
• Microsoft Max (Don’t install on a production machine!)
• MSN Screensaver
• PDC videos @ Channel9
• Bill Gates and Napoleon Dynamite video at iFilm.com or at Longhornblogs.com
• BoingBoing
• Ruksun
• Azureus