Saturday, March 13, 2010
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Scary
My darling wife Deb has been looking for a job for 18 MONTHS, and no luck.
Now, with the economy suffering, well... unemployment running out and ... if you can spare a prayer or three, please send them our way. Thanks.
Now, with the economy suffering, well... unemployment running out and ... if you can spare a prayer or three, please send them our way. Thanks.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Why don't I blog more?
I guess it's becuase I write for a living, so... no excuse, just the facts.
I have lots to say, but twice a week, get to say it on teevee and consider my Face for Radio very lucky to have that!
How can I bug my KTVZ comrades to start blogs we can incorporate into the Website if I don't even post to mine every week or two? Hypocritical I suppose.
I have lots to say, but twice a week, get to say it on teevee and consider my Face for Radio very lucky to have that!
How can I bug my KTVZ comrades to start blogs we can incorporate into the Website if I don't even post to mine every week or two? Hypocritical I suppose.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Testing 1-2-3...
A wee bit cumbersome (why you can't just upload a photo directly through Blogger rather than through Picasa but.. anyway, here's one for posterity, as they want me to wark dark suitcoat from now on (but thankfully they let me skip the tie and makeup;-)
Oh for goodness sake, you can add pix easier now - they sure didn't explain that the route I went from profiles, but... here!
Whoops! I want that pic down HERE... I mean there! Oh well, that's what HTML cut/paste is for;-)
There's me on right, brother Rick in middle and brother Pete on left, back in March. Hard to believe he was gone two months later. Still hurts my heart to think about it..
Back in the saddle again...
Many months ago, after Blogger upgraded itself, I got stuck in a user name/password vortex that made getting back into this blog impossible without divine intervention.
Or the passage of a few months. Now, the system seems to have been ready for someone like me, and voila, a password reset and I'm back (see title line;-)
With all my irons (I've run out of fire), who knows how often I'll update here, but at least I now have this orphaned blog back in my control!;-)
So suggest stuff to write about - not TV-related but well, anyway, now that I'm on air twice a week (gulp) - I don't need this avenue, but what the heck, one can never have too many ways to say howdy and vent or whatever. (And it's a lot cleaner than MySpace and less depressing/limiting to a seemingly man-of-few-friends than Facebook.)
Or the passage of a few months. Now, the system seems to have been ready for someone like me, and voila, a password reset and I'm back (see title line;-)
With all my irons (I've run out of fire), who knows how often I'll update here, but at least I now have this orphaned blog back in my control!;-)
So suggest stuff to write about - not TV-related but well, anyway, now that I'm on air twice a week (gulp) - I don't need this avenue, but what the heck, one can never have too many ways to say howdy and vent or whatever. (And it's a lot cleaner than MySpace and less depressing/limiting to a seemingly man-of-few-friends than Facebook.)
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Why are manual publishers so spineless?
I just installed WillMaker Plus 2006 on my PC (hey, ya turn 50, you think of such things), and before I even looked at the manual - hey, it's nice to even get a manual on paper these days - I knew that if I turned it sideways - the way one puts a manual on a bookshelf - it would say... nothing.
And it does. I mean, it doesn't.
When in the name of Random House did makers of software/hardware/devices (cell phones for example) decide that even if a book is thick enough to have a spine, there should be no words on it to help people find the blasted thing later? Talk about lack of user-friendliness!
And there's another thing - why do folks like HP, who are in the same boat in terms of the Empty Spine Syndrome, also decide not to put everything in one manual, but instead to have two, three or four? Let's see, there's the Getting Started Guide, the PC Troubleshooting and System Recovery Guide, the Warranty and Support Guide, the PC Basics Guide, the Upgrading and Servicing Guide, the MONITOR Warranty and Support Guide....
Get the picture? Just try to figure out which has what. Of course, most of them are so thin, they are, well, spineless. And it may save them a dime or two, not to have to reprint everything when updating one of them, but ... c'mon folks, where's the usability in so many different guides to sort, stash, thumb through and, of course, lose the one you're looking for? (I will give them credit for putting them all in a zippered plastic bag, but... still...)
Oh, I know, its all on the PC, or on the CD/DVD, or online, so no worries! Poppycock and balderdash. If you're GONNA make paper manuals, which I do like, PLEASE make them useful and usable. And amongst all the useless shortcuts, desktop or start-menu-wise, why not create one to THE place online where all these manuals reside, in constantly updated fashion?
Dream on, I suppose. It's like asking why I need the French, Spanish and German version of every consumer manual I get. Not.
Still, if blogging is good for anything, it's good for venting.
So there!;-)
And it does. I mean, it doesn't.
When in the name of Random House did makers of software/hardware/devices (cell phones for example) decide that even if a book is thick enough to have a spine, there should be no words on it to help people find the blasted thing later? Talk about lack of user-friendliness!
And there's another thing - why do folks like HP, who are in the same boat in terms of the Empty Spine Syndrome, also decide not to put everything in one manual, but instead to have two, three or four? Let's see, there's the Getting Started Guide, the PC Troubleshooting and System Recovery Guide, the Warranty and Support Guide, the PC Basics Guide, the Upgrading and Servicing Guide, the MONITOR Warranty and Support Guide....
Get the picture? Just try to figure out which has what. Of course, most of them are so thin, they are, well, spineless. And it may save them a dime or two, not to have to reprint everything when updating one of them, but ... c'mon folks, where's the usability in so many different guides to sort, stash, thumb through and, of course, lose the one you're looking for? (I will give them credit for putting them all in a zippered plastic bag, but... still...)
Oh, I know, its all on the PC, or on the CD/DVD, or online, so no worries! Poppycock and balderdash. If you're GONNA make paper manuals, which I do like, PLEASE make them useful and usable. And amongst all the useless shortcuts, desktop or start-menu-wise, why not create one to THE place online where all these manuals reside, in constantly updated fashion?
Dream on, I suppose. It's like asking why I need the French, Spanish and German version of every consumer manual I get. Not.
Still, if blogging is good for anything, it's good for venting.
So there!;-)
Friday, April 21, 2006
Serendipity calls: New Paul Simon, Chicago AND Toto?!?
Well, as I pour my heart and soul into my work, for TV and online, once in a while a burst of joy in other areas, the best kind - unexpected.
For example, I had no idea that Toto was still at it, and has a brand new album out, called "Falling in Between." Their "Seventh One" album from '88, I had on CASETTE (remember those?) and almost wore out, that band of "studio musicians" has always been a favorite.
And Paul Simon has a new one, too, called "Surprise" - and it will be, no cuts were available at Amazon, which kindly informed me by e-mail of the album's existence.
And noodling around Amazon, found Chicago XXX is out. I grew up with that band, and while not every song is hit material, I'm a loyal, true-blue fan, for the history and all they've meant to so many over the years.
So they're all on the way, and I'll share one thought: These musicians, still at the height of their creativity, tell this newly 50-year-old journalist to keep on rockin' at the news;-)
Nothing makes me smile as much as good music from old friends -- well, except maybe beating everyone else in town to a good story;-)
For example, I had no idea that Toto was still at it, and has a brand new album out, called "Falling in Between." Their "Seventh One" album from '88, I had on CASETTE (remember those?) and almost wore out, that band of "studio musicians" has always been a favorite.
And Paul Simon has a new one, too, called "Surprise" - and it will be, no cuts were available at Amazon, which kindly informed me by e-mail of the album's existence.
And noodling around Amazon, found Chicago XXX is out. I grew up with that band, and while not every song is hit material, I'm a loyal, true-blue fan, for the history and all they've meant to so many over the years.
So they're all on the way, and I'll share one thought: These musicians, still at the height of their creativity, tell this newly 50-year-old journalist to keep on rockin' at the news;-)
Nothing makes me smile as much as good music from old friends -- well, except maybe beating everyone else in town to a good story;-)
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