Thoughts & Experiences from the Mile High City
I knew something like this would happen when Veronica Belmont announced that she was leaving Mahalo Daily. She had been helping out as a co-host on Tekzilla a couple times. It is nice to see and I look forward to more from Tekzilla and Revision 3.
Watch the episode.
This show was good. But I think that it will get a lot better with Veronica co-hosting and being at Revision 3. It will be interesting to see how Mahalo Daily evolves.
The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners have been announced. I don’t agree with who won, but the Idaho Statesman being named a finalist for their coverage of Larry Craig? Give me a break.
This was neither breaking news or good coverage of the the story. It was sensationalized with some elements of truth built in. The Idaho Statesman has always been out to get Larry Craig. What I find funny is that they did not break the story.
Rumors have always flown around about Larry Craig, but there hasn’t been that much of proof. This story provided an insight and the Idaho Statesman went for the jugular.
Now this mediocre newspaper is claiming victory by being named a finalist for a Pulitzer.
I was fortunate to spend nearly a week in Cambridge, Maryland. For those of you who don’t know where it is located, it is located on the eastern shore of Maryland, on the southern shore of the Choptank River, about 2 hours from Washington, D.C. It is definitely a fun area and I hope to have more time to go back and explore.
Cambridge is a wonderful eastern town located amongst rolling fields of small family farms that is trying to find a way to grow its economy. It has a great history and was once a bustling hub of agriculture (Tobacco), and fishing (Oysters).
The drive out was beautiful on Sunday, March 30. I landed in Washington, D.C. about 5 P.M. and headed east through the twilight past Annapolis and over the Chesapeake on the Bay Bridge. I stopped for a quick dinner at the Harris Crab House (see my separate review) and then continued through the darkness to Cambridge. Continue reading “My week in Cambridge. Maryland not England.”
Famed actor Charlton Heston has died at the age of 84.
He has starred in numerous movies and is probably best known for his roles in Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments.
Lately, Heston has been known more for his work with the National Rifle Association as its President.
He died at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife at his side.
Well people are starting to realize and see that blogging and trying to get the views and clicks is causing a lot of problems for people.
In a story in the New York Times, In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Until They Drop, the stress is getting to people who blog and try to get ahead. It has even taken the life of two bloggers.
I just need to say no job is worth that much. You need to have a balance so there is a break for people so that they can relax and have fun. Sitting at a computer 24/7 is not healthy and will cause you to leave this earth a lot earlier than you should.
As an employer, they bear some of the responsibility in this. They should be working to take care of the people that are making them loads of money. If they don’t, they are greedy little bastards and their blogs should not be read.
That is why I don’t read Gizmodo. The stupid stunt they pulled during CES was just wrong. That is just plain wrong. But they are some of the worst offenders by paying writers based upon how many views their posts get.
Some sanity needs to come into this, otherwise people will burn out, the blog owners will lose good writers, and then they will lose revenue.
Amber MacCarthur, one of our favorite web celebrities from up north, is taking on the telecommunications establishment in Canada for their packet shifting and throttling of the Internet.
Bell and Rodgers are restricting bandwidth whenever and wherever they want and it is finally making our Canadian friends upset.
Take a look at this video that Amber just released.
Let’s help bring net neutrality to Canada.
Well I finally completed my upgrade to WordPress 2.5 and I am liking it quite a bit. I had planned on doing this while I was gone, but just did not have the time.
I am finding that I like this new version quite a bit and it is refreshing over the previous version. I had found that it had become quite tired.
I am looking forward to more updates and other interesting things from the folks who develop WordPress.
Well Frontier Airlines has done it to me again. The flight back toDenver from Washington, DC, does not have TV again.
It may seem minor, but this is one of the reasons why I fly Frontier. If
they can’t have a plane that works with a service the advertise, “All
Airbus’ have Direct TV,” then they shouldn’t be in the air.
I am extremely disappointed in Frontier!
Well it was a good day for two of the professional sports teams in Colorado, the Colorado Avalanche and the Colorado Rockies.
The Colorado Avalanche came back from a 2-0 deficit to score four straight goals to defeat the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 to clinch a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Peter Forsberg scored his first goal of the season and they looked pretty good through the second half of the game.
The Colorado Rockies had a re-do and beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1. The original opener was rained out after the St. Louis Cardinals had opened up a 5-1 lead. Thank goodness for the rain.
Let’s hope the good news continues for these two teams as the spring continues on and into the fall for the Rockies.
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