Posted in General on May 10th, 2007
WHICH NEWSPAPER WILL BE THE FIRST TO DIE? Bob McChesney and I address this question in today’s Los Angeles Times. You’ll never guess which one is my pick . . . .
Link to Instapundit
Considering my last post I had to include this debate about the future of journalism that appears on the LA Times Opinion [...]
Posted in General on May 7th, 2007
In response to an article written in the Opinion Journal I wrote:
In the 1980’s I stopped subscribing to the local newspaper because I only read the Sunday paper for the comics and the sports page. Many of the articles in the newspaper that I would be interested in came from sources other than the local [...]
Posted in General on May 6th, 2007
I took this picture of my son today in a restaurant. He was waiting for us to finish our meal. He wanted to go. I took the picture because of the look on his face and the fact that he did not move when I raised the camera. I was surprised he let me take [...]
Posted in General on Apr 17th, 2007
Thirty-three people were killed and 15 others were wounded at Virginia Tech university on Monday in the deadliest campus shooting rampage in U.S. history.
Source: 33 killed in Virginia massacre - Yahoo! News
I graduated from Virginia Tech so this story hit me hard. Ambler Johnston was a girl’s dormitory when I went to school. Lots [...]
Posted in General on Mar 29th, 2007
About a week ago my Sony camera went on the blink. Up until that point I was very happy with the camera. When I looked through the view finder I got garish yellowish-green monochrome image. When the image started to smear across the screen I decided that it needed to be fixed or trashed. After [...]
Posted in General on Jan 2nd, 2007
In essence, science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid-and merits universal acceptance-only if it can be independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method means it is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or [...]
Posted in General on Dec 20th, 2006
The blog mob: “Written by fools to be read by imbeciles.”
Link to The Blog Mob
This is a piece I decided to read because Chris Muir made fun of it in his cartoon. In this painful discourse on how journalists write better than bloggers, his piece had a grammatical error. A period was missing from the [...]
Posted in General on Nov 3rd, 2006
We found this while cruising though Bloglines last night. If you are writing anything at all, odds are you’ll improve your skills by spending some time at the Poynter Institute. So without delay, here is a list of a whopping 50 articles that we should all read (yes, I said we because my writing tends [...]
Posted in General on Oct 14th, 2006
Over the last two days I have made a few site modifications that may cause people some problems.
I moved/restructured the site so that it will fully use the alazycowboy domain. My previous setup worked but it was a little dorky. To get everything to work I had to access some features by including legacyfarmltd.com in [...]
Posted in General on Aug 9th, 2006
The Battles Hymn of the Blogger
If your blogging becomes a chore,Something you dread to do.Be slow to blame the blogBecause maybe it’s just you.
This doesn’t happen to everyoneBut maybe you’re battling Blogger’s BlockStop trying to strike gold with each postor you’ll find yourself losing to the clock.
Maybe you fear nobody’s reading your stuff,They’re there - [...]
On this day, the Virginia Tech community reflects on the vibrant lives of the 32 students and faculty who were tragically taken from us a year ago. Through light, art, and music we pay tribute to each and every person we lost. We gather to honor our friends, colleagues, and family members. We will never forget.