Technology Bytes on KPFT 90.1FM

You are having trouble partitioning that new hard drive, and Google’s ten thousand results are not quite helping out. You’re stumped. If only there were a bunch of nerd-​geeks one could call for help — an oracle of technology and eternal wisdom that could sift through those ten thousand results and give you some sort of an honest and real answer.
This bunch of geeks exists, and they are at your beck and call. Oh, the humanity!
Trolling about the radio dial back in 1996, I happened across something very odd and very cool: some call-​in show about
computers with people calling in with questions about everything from how to save a Word document to being helped with installing a CD-​ROM drive. Back then, the program was known by the cryptic name Radio X, but now it’s called Technology Bytes, and after eleven-​and-​a-​half years on the air, it’s still going strong.
Hosted by its founder, Jay Lee, along with original co-​host Peter Hughes, the show now sports among its regular co-​hosts Dwight Silverman (who writes a tech column for the Houston Chronicle), Groovehouse, Barrett Canon, and phliKtid. Technology Bytes can be heard on KFPT 90.1 FM radio on Wednesdays from 8:00pm
to 10:00pm fifty-​two weeks a year. And yes, you really can phone in (and actually have a good chance of getting through so long as you get in the queue in the first half of the show) and get your questions addressed with a strong dose of irreverent humor. Over the years I’ve listened, I’ve phoned in several times.
These guys are all volunteers, and this is for them a labor of love: getting more people onto technology and the positive benefits it can give society, but it’s more than just that. It’s a program filled with self-​deprecating personality and wit.