Out of the Newsroom

Like every blog owner/publisher, we’ve been struggling over the past few days with the company that I pay for web hosting. They have been moving to a new “server farm” and apparently haven’t played enough “farmville” before doing so. Or been on a real farm. Where you can’t just not work for a few days, [...]

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I’ve mentioned before that one of my all time favorite television shows from the “golden age” of the medium is “The Honeymooners”. Any student of the history of television ends up impressed at the visionary that Jackie Gleason was about the still-in-its-infancy business.  Gleason’s use of the kinescope is why we still have the ability [...]

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It’s been a big few weeks for everyone who just can’t stand anything that Apple does. And there are more than a few folks who just don’t like all those things with a small i in the name, like the iPod, iPad and most of all the iPhone. The newest iPhone has been ground zero [...]

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On a Saturday morning with major rain going on outside, it was a great time to do some reading, catch up on a few bits of this and that, and explore on the internet a bit.  (Don’t get me wrong, we needed the rain after a week of 90-plus degrees of heat each day.) I [...]

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The XM satellite radio in my car is usually tuned to the decade specific “70s on 7″ channel. It isn’t because the 1970s are the greatest musical decade ever or anything of that sort, but rather just the music I grew up with and played on the radio for much of those years. That channel [...]

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There are days when just bouncing around the web, caroming off one link to another, provides just the most amazing glimpses down the small side roads that branch off the eight-lanes of concrete ribbon feel that the internet often takes on. Sure, a search engine can Google you to the exact pinpoint location of the [...]

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