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For those that listen to the weekly radio show, you know over the last few months I had made quite a few trips to California to visit my Mom and stepdad Micheal who was diagnosed with Cancer about a year ago. Back in May, the cancer spread to his spine leaving him unable to walk. My mom went with the doctors and put him in a rehab facility while he underwent radiation therapy to weed out and kill the cancer. Michael was a former soldier and served the country in Korea and Vietnam. The battle he was facing was unlike the ones he had ever seen before.

Michael wanted to come home and be in the house where he and my mom had led a happy and fun life for the past 18 years.

Mom made the arrangements, and brought Michael came home. He was happy to see the bird and turtle and just as happy to look out the window and see his garden that he had not been able to tend to but provided him some comfort. Michael was happy to see the neighbors who stopped by and checked on him and my mom. He was just happy to be home.

Last night at about 3:30am, peacefully in his sleep, he went home again.

Your wishes during the last year have meant alot to my mom, to Michael and our family. He will be laid to rest in the Veterans Cemetary in Riverside.

To all Veterans, thank you and to those with a loved one facing this battle, our thoughts are with you.

Andy

We talked with Wallace Wang today about his most recent book, My New Mac. 52 different task on working around the Mac are laid out in this easy to read Task Book. Listen in to why many technology users may have started to shift to the Mac and what drove the author to move in that direction.

It’s all up on the Website at http://www.techtalkradio.com/books/mynewmac.html

A blogger onsite at the opening caught a couple of shots of one of the huge displays surrounding the stadium at the Beijing Opening for the 2008 Olympics.

While the typical Microsoft Naysayers are blasting BSOD jokes over one of the screens displaying blue with white text at the opening of the Beijing Olympics, it is, in fact, not OS troubles, but hardware (this error screen shows up as a prevention, stopping potential system damage; caused in this case by some USER error or hardware/driver error and not Windows OS)

Regardless…I wonder how many people Balmer called on the carpet over this mishap?

We talked with GM and VP of Sales Ron Ferguson from Archos about the new Internet Media Tablet which combines the features of its popular media players with an Internet device with Wi-Fi and 3.5G connectivity. Archos is calling the product the Internet Media Tablet or IMT and has some really great features with a 5″ or 7″ Screen. For More information check out our website and our interview with Archos at http://www.techtalkradio.com/hardware/archosgen6.html

We talked this morning with Tom Hogarty, Product Manager from Adobe on the release of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 this week and what enhancements we will find in the product. http://www.techtalkradio.com/software/lightroom2.html
If you are a photographer, have a good deal of images on your computer and are looking for an easy way to batch adjust photos, Lightroom 2.0 is a great way to help in that task as well as organizing and sharing your Digital Images.