Last week Maegan’s school planted pinwheels for international “Pinwheels for Peace” day. Since this was Maegan’s school I was assigned to cover it for the school system’s tv news. And since I was there covering the event anyway, why not grab a quick sound bite from my own daughter…
700 Billion dollars divided by 140 million taxpayers equals $5,000 per taxpayer. *(There are 300 million Americans but only 140 million taxpayers.)
Earlier this year I blogged about a free photo stitching application called Hugin, that combines multiple photos in to cool panoramas. It did a pretty good job but was not at all easy to use. Today I tried a brand new free photo stitcher called ICE that was just released by Microsoft last week as [...]
Maegan woke us up at 4:10 a.m. this morning, telling us about a loud banging noise outside. Without looking we told Maegan that it must just be thunder. She said it didn’t sound like Thunder, and then we started to hear it too. Bang, bang, bang. Over and over again, a short low rumble that [...]
It’s been a busy week. On top of my normal work week, I put in an extra 4 hours working a Board meeting on Tuesday and I stayed late on Friday too, closing up the station. We take turns on Board meetings and it just happened to be my turn, and Friday was just one [...]
Today we were taping a school board meeting. That’s not uncommon, but due to the length of the meeting I sat in and switched for an hour. The only reason I mention this is because it was the first time I switched a live or live-to-tape event since my PSTV days way back in college. [...]
Today was full of Google tech news – exciting stuff for technophiles, but the rest of you can just stop reading now. First, Google announced and released a new web browser to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. It’s been rumored for years but today’s news was basically a surprise. I’ve already downloaded [...]