Archive for January, 2005

CBS fires four over fake Bush National Guard memos

The independent investigation at CBS about the fake National Guard memo story has come out, and the impact has been immediate–four people either fired or asked to resign. The amazing thing is Dan Rather, who reported the story and defended it so ardently, is staying at CBS. He’s of course resigning as […]

Using Blogger for editorial purposes

So at work we’ve slapped together a blog using Blogger, that will be used as part of an experiment in blogging. No idea whether it’s going to amount to anything but it is somewhat remarkable how easy it was to create this custom-looking blog. Publishing on the Web has come a long way.

Why Wal-mart won’t dominate the digital photo print space

I went to make an 8×10 of one of my Paris photos for Mom, but instead of my usual trip to Walgreen’s I decided to try Wal-Mart. The kiosk is basically the same–looks to be the same basic software. Except that at Wal-Mart it does one thing nicer than Walgreen’s–it automatically submits the final list […]

Caesar’s closed

Wow, the rising Ohio river has forced the closure of Caesar’s Indiana casino. Bummer, I have some credits on my casino card and was planning to go there this weekend for the buffet. This messes up my weekend plans.

Still don’t have a state senator

Looks like my district here in Louisville still doesn’t have a state senator up in Frankfort–she was not seated by the legislature. The vote winner apparently doesn’t qualify because she doesn’t meet residency requirements (you must live six years in Kentucky before running, she has only lived two of the last six here the rest […]

Photos from Paris

I posted a bunch of my photos from Paris onto Flickr.com:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rexworld/sets/73270/