I’m posting this from Las Vegas as I am down here for as week of non-techie fun. Very limited WiFi, but managing. I am down here for the largest of three boys high school summer basketball tournaments “The Reebok Big Time” with 304 other teams. My son is a member of a select team out of Seattle called the Ballard Blaze. I am not just watching, but an the assistant coach of the team. Yes, I do have a basketball background. I played for 13 years, from boys club youth ball up through semi-pro basketball and have played on traveling teams through Europe. I have also played against Olympic teams and national teams.

What is amazing is that even basketball has gone high-tech with laptops everywhere and high-end websites. It is amazing how much information can be found online about players and teams these days. I am the Internet connected member of this team. I track our schedule as we play two games of Friday and one on Saturday. Then the real loser out tournament begins.

With a total across three tournaments 850 teams and 8,500 high school backetball players here in 117 degree temperatures. The heat wave is breaking records and is very difficult to deal with, but we are all managing to do it. The best high school basketball players in the country. Really big dudes, some even make my 6′9″ look small. The best player here is 7′0″ and 245 pounds. One very big guy and he would not care much that I had more websites than him. I will post here how we are doing as the days roll by. So come back and check this blog.

Enough of my sin city report. See the hot news from TechPodcasts.com below.

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