ESPN 360 Infuriates
I have a vested interested in the outcome of the $50K HORSE event at the World Series of Poker. I have three guys from my Full Tilt Poker fantasy picks at the final table, and if they finish high or one of them wins the bracelet, I have a good shot at finishing in the [...]
Tags: espn360, fulltiltpoker, wsopMore Heroes Con Wrapups
More Heroes Con wrapups come in. I’m glad I got to meet and hang out with Derek Coward. I was a little surprised that the show was not as explicitly social as many such gatherings. Had I known that you could get in with only a wrist band like a record show, I’d [...]
Tags: aleclongstreth, comicbooknoise, comics, derekcoward, dustinharbin, heroescon, lizbaillie, longboxdigitalcomics, rantzhoseleyNo Mr Bond, I Expect You To wp_die()!
After my argument with Alex King the other day where he defended his use of a “wp_die()” call from his Wordpress plugin as being a completely appropriate thing for a plugin author to do, I got curious. I have 27 plugins on this blog, 12 active and 15 inactive. I deleted the two I had [...]
Tags: popularitycontestPositive Wordpress Plugin News
Last January, I tried an experiment over at Grand Strand Bloggers with the Digest Post plugin. I have a Yahoo Pipe that gathers together all of the RSS feeds for all of the blogs in the GSB blogroll. This plugin is supposed to take a feed and in automated fashion make a summary post of [...]
Tags: digest-post, wordpressPopularity Contest: Wordpress Plugin Hall of Shame
Yesterday I had my first ever bad experience with a Wordpress plugin auto-upgrade and it was really really bad. I did the auto-upgrade of the Popularity Contest plugin, first upgrade in a very long time. These upgrades have become so routine that I don’t much think twice about executing them any more. I clicked the [...]
Tags: popularitycontest, wordpressHeroes Con Wrapup
Here are some Heroes Con wrapups by people I hung out with: one from Andre and one from Derek. I’ve attended before but the last time was in 1991, so it’s almost like a brand new con to me. A few quick observations from my side:
In a lot of ways, it seemed less like a [...]
Tags: aleclongstreth, heroescon, littlehousecomics, lizbaillieLearning from Kindlegate and Amazonfail
I ran across this article at Podcasting News which reference this original article about trying to get multiple copies of purchased eBooks on multiple Kindle readers. This is being dubbed “Kindlegate” apparently. At first I was confused as to how this was a DRM issue because it sounded like an access to download issue, until [...]
Tags: amazonfail, kindle, kindlegateAt Heroes Convention
I’m here in Charlotte a few blocks from the convention center. I’m looking forward to attending Heroes Convention tomorrow. They just had a piece on the con on the 11 PM local news that makes me even more anxious to get there. I brought my full want list of comics I’m looking for, a few [...]
Tags: andrepope, derekcoward, heroescon, kregsteppe, realitybreakpodcastMy Lunch Hour – 6/18/2009
My Lunch Hour – 6/18/2009
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There is something truly truly wonderful about living and working in a place where going to the beach is such a simple operation that I can do it for 20 minutes at lunch time and that’s reasonable. This is a view of [...]
Tags: myrtlebeachContinuing Coverage of the Death of Journalism
I find the current state of the news industry a fascinating thing to watch. In that way, it’s much like a 12 car pile-up or a dumpster fire.
Here are a few items on the subject that I have found highly interesting.
Dan Conover wrote a piece called The Newspaper Suicide Pact a few weeks ago, and [...]
Tags: brucesterling, churchofthesavvy, danconover, davewiner, jayrosen, rebootingthenews, xarkElected Officials in my Family
My brother and his family are vacationing in town for a few days. We went out to dinner at Cheeseburger in Paradise and had a big old time. While we were there, my 6 year old niece had a silly spell. She was referring to Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants as “the mayor of Doofusville.” After [...]
Lloyd Kaufman on the Treatment
The other day I listened to the podcast version of Elvis Mitchell’s show The Treatment . It featured a great interview with a guy I met last year, Lloyd Kaufman. During this interview I thought he made an enormous amount of sense about the movie business and how it works and should work. [...]
Tags: elvismitchell, kcrw, lloydkaufman, podcasting, thetreatmentJaunty Jackalope Ruined My Life
OK, maybe that title is dramatic. It did ruin the last two work weeks for me, though. Over Memorial Day weekend, I upgraded my work laptop from Kubuntu Hardy Heron to Jaunty Jackalope. That was a maneuver I instantly regretted when I got to work on Tuesday and my second monitor would not work no [...]
Tags: hardyheron, jauntyjackalope, kubuntu, ubuntuThe Kindle Criticism I Reject Out Of Hand
Shortly I’m going to post my review of the Kindle. I had held off because I wanted to have actually read some books to completion on it. I’ve done all the major functions at this point. I’ve read books I’ve purchased from Amazon – both from the web page and directly from the device. I’ve [...]
Tags: kindleA Heroes Con Publicity Offer to All
I’m going to attend Heroes Con in Charlotte in 2 weeks. I’m willing to make this offer to any podcaster or anyone with stuff to promote. Send me your flyers, stickers, postcards or whatever promotional material you have. I’ll take it to the convention and put it on the freebies table there. If there are [...]
Tags: dragoncon, heroescon, kregsteppe, podcasting, realitybreakpodcast, xconmyrtlebeachNew Reality Break Episode is Live
After a long drought, a new episode of Reality Break Podcast has been posted, this one with science fiction author and memoirist William Shunn. He was game enough to do this interview long before the series was going again and this conversation has sat in the can for a very long time. As he returns [...]
Tags: podcasting, realitybreakpodcast, williamshunn
