I’m going to state this clearly right at the outset: the Red Sox lost me last September with their heartless, uninspired play. This season I’ve watched more Orioles baseball than Red Sox, and the little Red Sox I did watch sickened me. Since last year all we heard was that it would be impossible for the team to unload Beckett, Crawford, etc. due to their tainted image (in Crawford’s case, total lack of performance as well) and bloated salaries. Not…
My years at Namemedia ended last month and I’m no longer forced to commute to Waltham from Central MA anymore. While I miss everyone I worked with at Namemedia, I certainly do not miss the commute. Our workdays are long enough. When you start adding an additional 1.5 hours each way, minimum, to your commute, it gets downright awful. Then, add on top the fact that at least once a week you can expect a 2 hour or longer commute,…
I found myself with a sudden need for new laptop last week. Not something I was really looking forward too, as I had a perfectly fine Dell MP4500 in my grasp up until last Friday afternoon. Initially I thought I might make do with the HP G7 – exactly the same machine I picked up for my mother last month. 17.3″ screen, AMD A6 processor, 4 meg of ram and a nice price tag at $429.00 on special at BestBuy….
We are all a little less today, for the loss of a great newsman, Mike Wallace, formerly of 60 Minutes. He was a slave to the story; where it lead and who it lead to be damned. But this isn’t a memorial for a man I didn’t know. It’s a memorial for a profession and ethos that is gone. I’d honestly love to hear what he’d have to say about today’s world of media bias. There it is, media bias….
This year, we pretty much only shot video, using my Evo 4g with an 8 mp onboard camera. It’s really the first time I’ve edited one of my videos down for release, and I can see a few obvious problems, such as the horizontal vs. vertical issue which has got to be as rookie as you get. Still, I think it came together well enough to share. So without further ado, the 2012 New England Boat Show in 4 minutes……
Over the past decade, we’ve heard a lot of prognostications on newspaper’s place in the digital world, or perhaps their lack of said place. Inevitably someone comes up with the statement “local newspapers do one thing well: covering local news you can’t get anywhere else.” Over the past year or so, I can think of numerous occasions where I saw something, such as a car accident that tied up Route 146 for hours, which I’d have expected to find under the heading…
Over the time, we expect that technology will improve. The general notion is that gadgets become cheaper, with richer feature sets, and finely tuned reliability as they mature. We see this throughout tech, in computers, smartphones, tablets, etc. Everywhere, except printers. Let’s face it, home printing technology has become harder to use, less reliable and has generally been on a downward spiral since the invention of the ink jet printer. Back in the 80’s, I could run thousands of sheets…
Simple Tips for the Cyanogen Mod of the EVO 4G The problem: My Evo 4g Android phone ran out of space constantly due to the limited “on phone” memory (428 mb total). Most of this space was eaten up by apps my mobile carrier, Sprint, had added to the phone which couldn’t be moved to my SD card. Things like “Sprint NFL”, “Sprint NASCAR” and “Sprint TV” as well as a host of apps like Blockbuster, which I’d never, ever…
<This article was written in early September, and I can’t remember why I didn’t publish it then. Must have had more to say, but I can’t remember it now…> A look through my archives here will show you that I used to cover a lot of the downward slide of the newspaper industry. It’s been a long time since I even bothered to write about Journalism and the not-so-slow downward spiral. This morning a few things sparked my interest. I…
In the 11th minute, of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month… Thanks to all now serving and those who have served.