The Mac GeekCat Cup number 250 for Wednesday, March 17th.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, 2010. 10. Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geekab. I am Dave Hamilton coming to you from a hotel room just south of the center of

Austin, Texas on this on this beautiful spring day here in Texas.

And on the other end of the Skypeline,

assuming the Skypeline works on this hotel bandwidth

is.

It sounds good so far, and this is John F Run here

at Fairfield, Connecticut. You Connecticut you know Dave if I didn't

know better I'd say you're probably at this thing called a South by Southwest I am yep and it's

we're in we're in limbo here which is why I had this pocket of time to do this podcast so

the South by Southwest Festival is actually three different conferences or

shows that happen

uh... all kind of in a string and they slightly overlap each other.

There's the film conference which sort of is concentrated toward the beginning of the festival which started I think last

Thursday and then the but it but it sort of extends throughout the festival then

there's the interactive festival which I think starts started Friday and ended last night.

And then starting today or this afternoon and into this evening is the music festival, where

tons and tons of bands come to to Austin.

Thousands of bands come to Austin to play and and if you've listened to the show for a

couple you know more than a year you've heard me talk about this.

But I think last year I saw 28 bands in four days.

So that starts tonight.

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