First off — fun, as always.

Regarding comments: What I lack in frequency, I make up for in verbosity…

1. Yeah, I’ve been listening for a while, but I’m not always good on the whole “remembering what comments I wanted to make” thing. I decided to try taking voice notes on my phone right after I got done listening — we’ll see how it goes, but so far so good.

2. Personal preference item: I get the whole “it’s us having a conversation” dynamic that it helps enforce, but for the love of all things holey (like swiss cheese, for example), could you do me a favor and drop the right-speaker-Bob, left-speaker-Fondeux thing? I tend to do all my ‘cast listening on my phone, while doing things like grocery shopping. I usually only have one earbud in, so I can have some awareness of what’s going on around me. This week’s ‘cast was… difficult, in that regard.

3. As a side note, a joke here around the mcHomestead (stemming from me misunderstanding The Boy) is to refer to parmesan cheese as “Farmer John cheese” — which struck me as suddenly funny during the “Blame Fondeux” bit, with the reminder of the whole “John Melted Cheese” meaning. All Fondeux needs to do is start playing crappy farming games on Facebook, and we’ll have come full circle.

4. Turns out the DOJ isn’t really happy with Apple’s new EULA, either — seems that they feel they’re using their dominance in the mobile OS market to push their agenda in the desktop OS biz. Since there’s iPhone / iPad dev aspirations afoot, it might be something to keep an eye on before shelling out the Apple tax.

5. Don’t discount the Windows Phone Series 7 Phone 7 Series Windows 7 Series Phone Phones coming out later this year, either (no, *not* the Kin). While the OS name needs some work (and, admittedly, it’s better now that it’s really just “Windows Phone 7″), it’s looking like it’s going to actually be a good entry in the smartphone arena, and the dev tools are (a) free, and (b) pretty darn good. There’s every chance that one of these will replace my BlackBerry when it’s new phone time (1.25 years from now) (Thus Endeth the Microsoft Apologist portion of the comments).

6. There is no note number 6.

Yeah, I know it’s spelled “Fondoo”…