Our holiday tradition is to play this song on the air during the show right before Christmas.
It is, by far, the WORST rendition of the song you will ever hear. That being said, you will come to love it as we do and you’ll never hear this song again without laughing to yourself in shameful glee….

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phliKtid, co-host and engineer for Technology Bytes, takes a turn manning the phones to take listener pledges during the 2007 fall fundraiser for KPFT on Halloween night…

Remembering his volunteer training phliKtid is calm, courteous and professional

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After taking the pledge he thanks the listener for their generous support

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Break time!

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Here’s what the TechBytes crew might look like as guests on The Simpsons:

 

 TechBytes 7-18-2007 [120:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (64)

See more pictures in our flickr group and our gallery.

Random photo of phliKtid in the studio

I have spoken before in my personal blog on the topic of hot-linking images.

As a photographer and as a person who hosts and posts a lot of images, I get people directly linking to my server all the time on Myspace, Friendster, Facebook and so on. There’s my image, plain as day. No credit for my work, no thank you Jay Lee for this awesome picture!, no nuthin! And to make matters worse, they’re pulling it directly from my server.

The John McCain team discovered that this is a huge no-no and they discovered it in a way that we here at Technology Bytes can truly appreciate.

Apparently John McCain has his own Myspace page which utilizes a template created by Mike Davidson over at Newsvine.com.

The McCain team ripped the template without crediting Davidson and, to add insult to injury, hot-linked to one of his images.

Davidson retaliated.

By simply changing the picture on his own server, Davidson was able to give Senator McCain and new political outlook.

You can read Davidson’s own account on his blog, but be warned. As of this morning the story was “slashdotted” so his site is responding a little slowly.

*Screen capture of McCain’s Myspace hack created by Mike Davidson

Geek humor meets political commentary