Quoggling Sand

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: There was a time, and this may still be true, that a great many people in my line of work wanted nothing but to work for a FAANG company. Having been there and don…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: At long last, our Oasis in the Desert that is Las Vegas is hitting some real high temperatures. Bullhead City and of course Death Valley are still up at the top, b…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: I did not end up serving in the US Military, though I was certainly planning to, in the Air Force most likely, and I managed in my younger years to spend some time…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: You are listening to podcasts, so you are already familiar with spoken word audio programming, what about Audio Books?

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Working from Home, Hybrid Work, Return to Office, Digital Nomads, and maybe more options, what is this and what works? I know what works for me, but your mileage m…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Learning how to read at about age three made books and learning an easily-reachable tool in the personal development toolbox early on. In the pre-digital age, ther…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: The polls closed at 7pm on Tuesday for the Nevada Primaries, and within minutes winners were called, the Nevada Secretary of State website for posting results show…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Silicon Valley, the place where any idea seemed to have a chance, and where we made a reasonable go at a novel review scheme, which I think still has a chance this…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Nowadays they speak back to you, but back in the day speakers were just speakers playing the sounds we gave them; a little practical engineering project in college…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Once upon a time, recording video was actually challenging.

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, LEGO products of various kinds, and a Volkswagen Bug were all mile markers along the way toward computer engineering, wherein one knows …

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: If you are familiar with The Hunt for Red October, you know that a possible aspect change may indicate what they called a Crazy Ivan, a sudden change in direction …

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: It has been a few months now since I really got away from Social Media (the big corp platforms everybody knows about), though actually years for Facebook. How did …

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: As a fan of Magnum PI and Simon & Simon in the 80s, and one with a tinkering bent, it should go without saying that I obtained some lock picks and that I learned h…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: My very first role as an actual programmer, after my first year away at college, during which the Phoenix area had its hottest high temperature ever while I worked…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: No, not moving. But moving is certainly something I have done, and I absolutely do not care for it. Should I?

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Always fascinated with flight, where did it get me? Always back to the same place, even with hundreds of thousands of frequent flier miles, but some adventures Up …

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Just like the movie, though not quite so much, I put in a lot of travel time and distance whilst working for Intel Corporation, and I look forward to returning to …

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Just about four years ago we in the US began to experience the pandemic lock down and all that ensued during and after, though all of the chaos actually began some…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Some will remember, some were not there, but there was a time when our little modem would dial a phone number, negotiate a transfer protocol, and leave us online t…