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All purpose guy you trust?
I couldn't help but notice that I used the word "guy" in my headline. It reminds me of going to a Women in Communications meeting in the late 70s where Jessica Savitch was speaking. I always admired her. She talked about credibility and objections to women as anchors. Putting on her formal voice and look she announced, something like, "The U.S. has taken steps to prevent retaliation in the hostage crisis..." Then paused and said "How would you react to that? Would you say 'I don't believe you?'" It got a big laugh because she was completely credible. Everybody's dead. I keep mentioning people who are dead. I'm feeling old. Savitch was killed in a car accident in 1983. Ever see Pi? Pi, the movie? The "hero" is an ubermathgeek who is onto something dangerous. I'm not that much of a math geek but I do like patterns and I read Godel Escher Bach every 2 or 3 years. I certainly am wired to seek patterns. I suppose everybody is, but they plague me sometimes. I see patterns in numbers, but more often in words because they are a bigger part of my life. I wish I could stop noticing. Like, what good does it do me or anybody else to spend any energy noticing that American Chopper and Anderson Cooper are on TV at the same time?
Anderson Cooper Sometimes I don't mind it taking up space and processing power and I'm glad I noticed. For instance, every third or fourth Christmas I'll see a headline in a newspaper for a story about a Salvation Army Bellringer.
Amy Bellinger It's a completely visual thing. Usually the words don't sound at all alike. Happy Holden Day
Executive Suite is a great business story. It's already played on TMC today, but rent it if you ever get a chance. No music in it and you don't really notice. Directed by Robert Wise. I set up a press conference once for Wise, and drove him back to the airport. Sweet old guy. I guess he's still alive. Hope so. Holden died a 20 years ago or more due to complications from a fall. He was drunk, too. Of course, if you've never seen Sunset Boulevard, that's something you need to do. You know, "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille?" iTunes again again again Now try to tell me there's no caching going on. My latest podcast is available, and has been since a few days after it was added to iTunes -- IF you are subscribed. A few days ago I described in a screencast what happens when you use iTunes search to discover my game. You get a month-old podcast, which is a huge problem for my podcast because it's a game. You get a month-old episode as the latest one in that scenario, when my cast shows up as a "top podcast" for the search term. I realized this morning that when it drops out of a top podcast spot, it's even worse. For example, right now, when you search on "literature" I'm merely listed among all podcasts with titles or descriptions containing the term. When you click on the row to hear a sample, episode 27 plays. It was recorded on June 11, and hasn't been included in my feed for weeks. (My feed only shows 25 items.) So, if that mp3 is not even in my feed anymore, how can you argue that iTunes is pulling directly from the podcaster's feeds? Maybe I should forget about it and ask my listeners to use another client. The percentage of players using iTunes does not seem to be rising anymore, it's stablized at around 21% for my podcast. I'm not sure how that compares to other podcasts. I think I've heard that some now are listened to mostly with iTunes. Maybe the music-related ones? Not sure. Trying something Trying feed2js with CSS. Hmm. When I paste the style info between the head tags in the blog template, it looks fine in the OPML window. But when I view HTML source of the blog's page, the left curly brace shows up as an ISO character number, #123. The right curly is fine, just a right Tried saving it in notepad, but then the blog page got an XML error in the browser. Text wasn't defined. Oh, maybe I had word wrap on. No. For now, if I wanted to do this, I suppose I could try to style everything within the HTML body, but then I wouldn't be able to use CSS classes (I don't think). Or, just do an external stylesheet. I know that works. |
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Is it funny or stupid or sensible to call in Chris Matthews to anchor the special hurricane coverage on MSNBC? I suppose I do trust him to give it to me straight, whatever "it" is; it doesn't necessarily have to happen in Washington.
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