The “World Music” segments include Celtic, Gaelic, Japanese, Chinese, Inuit, Native American, South American, African, Middle-eastern, Finnish, Russian, Indian, Australian Aborigine, Pakastani, Turkish, Medieval, Baroque, and other diverse music.

The “Dead Can Dance” music segment includes any of the hundreds of records music and vocal pieces from the group or Lisa Gerrard with others.

The “Select Film Soundtracks” music segment includes pieces you will usually never get to hear on any of the “classical” or “popular” radio stations, including: Braveheart, Last of the Mohicans, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Reloaded, Revolutions, Animatrix, Ultimate Matrix, Conan the Barbarian, Dragonheart, Excalibur, Brahm Stoker's Dracula, Gladiator, Baraka, etc.

The “Synthetic Zen” music segment includes pieces from Enigma, Enya, Roger Waters, myself, Kitaro, Michael Hedges, Paul Oakenfold, and others.

Information

This day in history

Zenthesis

Tech Talk with Hawke

Internet Weather report

Infinidigitum

The “This Day in History” subcategory is a quick listing of events on the day (or week) of the show as listed on The History Channel's website, and other history related websites, sometimes just a quick “bullet” list, and other times with a little more brief detail.

The “Zenthesis” subcategory is a short reading or quotation from such sources ass Aristotle, Descarte, Socrates, Sophocles, Plato, Jean Baudrillard, Mahatma Gandhi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Aquinas, The Tao (Dao), Lao Tzu, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Goethe, Kant, Kung-fu Tzu (Confucius), Quine, Han Fei Tzu (Legalism), Sun tzu (The Art of War), I Ching, Buddhism Without Beliefs, Robert Aitken, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sartre, Sellars, Nozick, the list is ever growing...

The “Internet Weather Report” segment is a quick listing of the current reports from the

SANS Institute Internet Storm report and Top 10 current Internet Attacks list.

The “Tech Talk with Hawke” segment covers technology of the day for both the technology geeks, and the “Average Joe” just trying to makes heads or tails of the new innovations of the 21st century. Recent example topics discussed include: How to deal with Spam/UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email); Wifi wireless networking; VPN (Virtual Private Networking); Hackers, Hacking, Innovators, Computer Criminals, and Script-Kiddies; Spyware, Adware, Malware; Viruses, Worms, & Trojans.

“Infinidigitum” (I'm still trying to come up with a more apropos name, I've also considered “The Electronic Frontier” “Report from the Cyber Rights War” and others. I'm wide open for suggestions): Technology news impacting your Civil Rights, Privacy, and Security. Keeping the public informed about technology, privacy, and security issues threatening civil rights and technology. Recent example topics I've discussed include: MGM vs. Grokster and the Supreme Court Rulings and the chilling effect on innovation; The Digital Broadcast Flag; Electronic Voting Machines.

Other names for the Electronic Civil rights section have included: The Virtual Frontier: News and commentary from the Electronic Frontier, The Digital World, The Cyber Universe, The Cyberverse, Privacy Battleground, and the Technology and Civil Rights War.

Sources for Infinidigitum, Tech Talk with Hawke, and Internet Weather Report include, but not limited to:

EFF.org (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Slashdot

Wired.com

BBC

CNN.com

MSNBC.com

FoxNews.com

Drudgereport.com

Wall Street Journal

New York Times

Washington Post

This day in History from Historychannel.com

SANS Internet Storm Center Weather report & Top 10 current attacks

Scifi.com

Merp.com

OtherHands.com

GuildCompanion.com

The list goes on extensively

Sample show schedule (this varies sometimes from show to show just for fun ;) ):

00:00 – 00:05 Show Introduction with editorial disclaimer

00:05 – 00:07 This day in history

00:07– 00:10 Reading and/or quote

00:10 – 00:30 World Music, Dead Can Dance, Synthetic Zen

00:30 – 00:34 PSA, STID, DJ Promos, Sponsors

00:34 – 00:35 Internet Weather Report

00:35 – 00:45 Tech Talk with Hawke

00:45 – 00:58 World Music, Dead Can Dance, Synthetic Zen

00:58 – 01:00 STID, PSA

01:00 – 01:30 World Music, Dead Can Dance, Synthetic Zen

01:30 – 01:35 PSA, STID, DJ Promos, Sponsors

01:35 – 01:45 Infinidigitum, Technology and Civil Rights

01:45 – 01:58 World Music, Dead Can Dance, Synthetic Zen

01:58 – 02:00 Show closing and farewell and show hand-off to next show

It might also be useful to know some of my background and qualifications related to the content of The Synthetic Zen show.

CLICK THE "READ MORE" LINK to read the rest of this article and view the attached poll.

I have worked in many industries including: automotive, professional photography and fashion, theater, medical, educational/instructional, security, technology, information security, mining, construction, ranching, food services, and many others. I started working my first paying job at nine years old at a mining camp, as a general laborer, helping with surveying, chopping wood, washing dishes, and more. Over the years I had manual labor jobs including lumber jacking, mining, surface blasting, road construction, heavy machinery operator, heavy construction laborer, surveyor, delivery driver, convention & events organizer, labor crew foreman, ranch hand, horse trainee/trainer, and many others until I was about 17/18. Then I worked as an automotive technician speciliazing in automotive computer, electrical, emissions and performance systems. I have also over the years worked as a certified nurses aide, emergency room prep tech, emergency medical technician trainee, security guard (armed and unarmed), body guard, habilitation therapist, professional commercial photographer, lab technician, server (waiter), store clerk, cashier, apartments and office buildings maintenance worker (and later manager), the list goes on and on...

During this whole time I continue working in the technology industry since 1981 starting out programming inventory and accounting software when i was 11. I've worked building over 10,000 computers with my own hands, and surpervised the building of many others by others, I've installed hundreds if not thousands of networks, administrated desktops, servers, mid-range servers, and mainframes, working in just about every facet of the computer and information technology industries possible. I have had my some of my published and other works re-republished and adapted by some of the largest technology and government organizations in the US and internationally.

In later years, I was certified through a program sponsored by the NSA and FBI for Information Security. I have worked as a “grunt” and as top level executive and business owner, working my way from the bottom to the top in many industries and companies, so I have a broad range of experience in relating with other's challenges and injustices. Since retiring, I'm now working toward becoming a Recreational & Music therapist to work with children who have learning, emotional, disabilities and challenges.

The above give you and idea of the "Synthetic" part

Below is more the music and "zen" part"...

I have been playing music since 1979, starting with piano and keyboard, in the mid-80s i started playing (mostly Blues) harmonica and chromatic harmonica, then in 1989 picking up guitar and bass then teaching in the 90's. I started playing Native American wood flutes in 1999, and started learning the African Djembe drum in 2005. I started composing electronic (computer-generated) music in 1992.

I have been broadcasting an online show 2-3 times per week for an Internet Radio station called NEKKID Radio (www.nekkidradio.com) since February 2004. This has helped me in slowly fleshing out what kind of show I wanted to do, and help towards developing some broadcasting skills.

I have been involved in theater and video as an actor and musician on and off most of my life, and that has helped with developing a stronger stage and on-air “presence”.

I have a natural keen interest in trying to understand all aspects of a topic.

I have studied martial arts (Kung fu (4 styles) and Aikido) since 1974, and this has without a doubt been a key part of my interest and studying of East Asian history, culture, language, spiritualism, and philosophy.

Below are some of my favorite quotes that I try (and frequently fail, but try, try again) to live by:

"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." -Brook's Law

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi

"All truth passes through 3 stages. 1st it is ridiculed. 2nd it is violently opposed. 3rd it is accepted as being self evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer

"If a man does his best, what else is there?" -General George S. Patton, US Army

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

"Rather fail with honor than succeed with fraud." -Sophocles

"The only thing I know is that I know nothing" -Socrates

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato

"Flexibility masters hardness." -The Tao (aka. Dao)

"Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been associated with long delays." -Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

"May you live in interesting times." -Ancient Chinese Curse

"A monk asked Chao-chou, Has the dog Buddha nature or not? Chao-chou said, Mu. "-Wu-Men Kuan "The Gateless Barrier" (Zen koan)

"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger." -Kung Fu Tzu (aka Confucius)

"Those who know, do not say. Those who say, do not know." -Lao Tzu ("Father of Taoism")

"...I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday...that's no way to treat an expensive musical instrument!" --Meat Loaf

"Yes, of course. Who has time? Who has time? But then if we never TAKE time, how can we ever HAVE time? -The Merovingian (The Matrix Reloaded)

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -Thomas Jefferson

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." --Thomas Jefferson

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin (or was it Thomas Jefferson?)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination

encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." - Goethe

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Dr Z and the Synthetic Zen Show

http://www.thesyntheticzenshow.com

CS, SANS-GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I, SCSA, CNA

Computer Scientist - Systems Engineer, Software Developer, & Information Security Specialist.

(Retired).

Open-source/Open-thought advocate