Today the last episode of In the Trenches was released. The show will be missed, but as I mentioned in the audio I gave them to use, it’ll be very interesting to see what sorts of things Kevin and George will be getting into now!

Douglas Welch started the project, and has asked all the fellow Friends in Tech to pitch in and help out with the Wish Book Holiday Podcast. Here’s what Douglas has in mind:

* Visit The Wish Book site
* Find a toy or other object that you remember from your childhood
* Tell us a story about the toy or object
* In the end, the stories don’t have to be based on the catalogs. Tell us your favorite personal holiday story is fine, too

Try to include the following information in your recording:

* Your Name and Home Town Location i.e. Douglas E. Welch from New London, Ohio
* The catalog and page where you found you item (So that others can see a picture of it)
* Your story

Your story can be whatever you wish — a real-time discussion with siblings, “hey do you remember that? Didn’t you leave that out in the rain?” to amore structured “I remember this…” type of story. Let yourself go! Tell us what made this item so special to you.
If I receive enough submissions for The Wish Book, I will create a daily podcast running from Thanksgiving Day through until Christmas or New Years.

Check out the website for all the info if you’re interested in participating. I’m going to be looking through the catalogs this week to try and get a good story recorded and sent over to Douglas, I hope you’ll consider it too!

Just a head’s up. Kevin Devin has created a Friend in Tech group on Facebook, for fans of any of the various FiT member shows, or blogs. If you’re interested in hanging with some other techies or getting to know the other fans and members who have Facebook accounts, go check it out!

Even if you don’t have a Facebook account, you should check out Kevin’s FiT-o-lantern on Flickr. That boy is, well, umm, dedicated. That’s it, dedicated!

The Friends in Tech Halloween special I told you about earlier this week, is now live on the FiT site. Go take a listen!

I wasn’t around when the guys were putting this together last week, so I can’t take any credit at all this time around, but I have heard it and it is geeky fun!

Coming out of the Shadows this October 24th…Fiends in Tech present our 3rd Annual Halloween Special:

“It’s the Great Server Chuck and Kreg”

Convinced that the Great Server will be making its yearly appearance, Kreg refuses to go Trick-or-Treating with the rest of the FiT gang and instead pulls an all-nighter waiting for the Great Server to “…rise up out of the server farm and brings technology to all the good geeks around the world.”

Don’t Miss it!

…and while you are waiting, be sure to revisit our earlier Specials
- The Server Room of Horrors 2006
- The Server Room of Horrors 2005

Friends in Tech, the group of podcasters and bloggers that I belong to, and blog for, when I’m not as crazy busy as I have been lately, has added a new member, Steve Riekeberg of the Geek Cred Podcast.

I can’t say that I’m all that familiar with the podcast, but I’m going to download a couple of episodes and take a listen while I’m out of town this week.

BTW, yes, I am in SFO now. Had a relatively nice trip out today, and got here in time to catch the Blue Angels flying around, and take a nice walk to the Bay for some photos. Training class starts in the morning, but I think I should still manage to find some time in the evenings for photos, and I have all day Friday, and most of Saturday, to myself. So, I’m looking forward to seeing some of the city we didn’t get to see when we were here last Spring as well as getting prepared for my Summation Trainer Certification. I should be learning a lot over the next few days!

Go share your backup plans, experiences, and recommendations on the Friends in Tech blog.

I just posted a note to the FiT blog about a new “mashup” we created of all the Friends in Tech members various photography related feeds. I used a great service called xFruits to aggregate all the feeds into one single source feed. I really like the service, you should definitely check it out.

And if you’re interested in checking out a bunch of tech guy’s photography, subscribe to the feed as well.

I’m somewhat blown away by the kind things Tim Fehlman had to say about Friends in Tech. We were featured on the Daily Cup of Tech site as the Tech Blog of the Week today, and all humility aside, it’s great to be associated with such a great group of techs, and people.

Thanks Tim!

Kevin Devin has a nice screencast over at Friends in Tech showing off a little tool he found from Eric Appel called SmartSetr that lets you create dynamic sets on Flickr by tag or date, etc. I’ll definitely be taking a look at that one soon.

Another tool that I might take a look at if I get some free time to play is something called LeafLetter that I saw reference over at Cleverhack today. This is a tool to create web “leaflets” that can be embedded on your blog or social network sites.