Tom does a sound scene tour of another truck stop, plays his review of the movie Duel, and talks about the future direction of the podcast likely centering around the social implications of technology. I also play three new podcast promos posted at PodcastPromos.Com. The links for today's show are:

The new PodcastPromos AutoFeed Podcast link is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/PodcastpromosAutofeed

http://www.cherryos.com -- A new $50 program that allows you to run Mac OS X on your PC!

http://www.blackviper.com -- a site that goes into a lot of detail about what Windows Services are and which ones you can safely turn off in order to maximize your computer's performance

I find out the hard way that you cannot put "http://" into alt= tag when posting a podcast RSS

Be sure to put "http://" when posting a website link or it will come up wrong in FireFox browser

www.truckflix.com -- a great trucking-related website

Here's a link to the latest tattoo I got on March 4, 2005:

http://www.truckerphoto.com/morepages/pic18.jpg

I'm using the Plantronics DSP-500 USB microphone/headset and I'm loving it! Here's a link for more information about it. For the price, it's an absolutely excellent value and also will work directly with Mixcast Live in conjunction with your existing sound card.

http://darkerprojects.com/section31.html -- Excellent fan-generated Star Trek audio plays downloadable in MP3 format

http://www.hiddenfrontier.com -- Fan-generated Star Trek: Hidden Frontier video episodes -- literally dozens of episodes to download, a total of around 2.5 gigabytes of files so far, I've downloaded them all !!!!!

Adam Raimer wants to help you create promos for your podcast -- you can find him as username adam6900. You can email Adam directly at madtownaces@yahoo.com

www.geeknewscentral.com -- I announce a Podcasting alliance with Geek News Central

www.downloadradio.org -- Bittorrent downloads of podcasts, including Trucker Tom's!!!

http://mixcastlive.com -- Get the podcasting software everyone is talking about!

www.podcastrigs.com -- Paul Figgiani's great podcast gear review site and his own tremendous podcast

Learn Step-By-Step How To Create Your Own Podcast An excellent, step-by-step guide on how to create your own podcast

Click Here For The Website Hostin Offer -- 2 gigabytes of storage and 60 gigs of bandwidth per month for about $70 for the first year -- an excellent offer that's hard to beat!!!

www.downloadradio.org -- My podcast is available via Bittorrent at Downloadradio.Org, a big thanks to the fine efforts of Peter Yorke.

DaveRamsey.Com Social Security reform calculator http://www.daveramsey.com/etc/social_security/ -- calculate how much you would have with only 4% going into the government's "C" fund. This is what the calculator calculated for me:

By investing 4% of the 12.4% you already pay into social security in privatized account, you should have approximately $69,254.04 available to you at retirement in addition to a smaller traditional social security benefit.Privatizing Your Retirement Breakdowm

Your max privatized account contribution per year is 4% of your annual income - $133.33 per month for a total annual contribution of $1,600.00.

Invested over 16 years from age 49 to age 65.

Your monthly draw after retirement will be approximately $461.12. This draw accounts for an inflation rate of 3%.

This plan should leave your privatized retirement nest egg, $69,254.04, untouched to pass along as inheritance for your family.

http://tomsmoviereviews.blogspot.com my video movie reviews

http://www.truckerphoto.com/
my main website

http://truckertom.blogspot.com/ "Tom's Take" political blog

tom@truckerphoto.com and tomwiles@mailblocks.com Tom's email addresses

Finally, send your pod-safe non-RIAA music download recommendation links to tom@truckerphoto.com.

Be safe!

TOM

  ¶ 4:10 AM