Posted: February 20, 2009 at 7:01 pm | Tags: Personal
I’m sitting in El Asteca restaurant in cheapeake waiting for a table and freezing my arse off every time the front door opens. I’m also posting to my blog from my phone while I wait. Now that may not seem like a big deal if you’re under 40- but this is star trek stuff to me. In a second I’ll snap a picture and post it to facebook. What the heck is going on here – we seem to be reaching out to one another in a strangely intimate way. Too much computer time?
Update:
This is the photo uploaded from my mobile phone to FaceBook
Posted: February 10, 2009 at 10:31 pm | Tags: ink, Monday
So if you read the last entry I owe you a follow up. I did go back to the office last night. The alarm did go off again. I did put the correct code in. It did not work.
When I called my boss at home for the second time on the same day I needed to write down the temporary pass code. While reaching for the ball point pen sitting on my nice new oak (well oak-ish) credenza in my darkened office, a thin blue stream of ink left a gooey filament all the way from the credenza to my new desk to the new leather bound executive pad there. But the Coup de grâce was the moment I walked into the now lit and populated office this morning. Our Office Manager gave me a wink and asked which number I used on the alarm pad. I told her. She tried it. It worked.
Damn.
Posted: February 9, 2009 at 10:29 am | Tags: Personal
O.K. – this is how to start a Monday… My office computer was giving me a lot of grief last week – displaying the dread “Blue Screen of Death” several times in a row. So Thursday night I went out and purchased a replacement box. After being out of town for the weekend I decided to come in bright and early to set up the new computer and not eat into office time on Monday… so around 6:00 AM I entered our new office and proceeded to enter my alarm code… except I did not push something or I pushed the wrong button. Then the Fire Alarm went off.
The Fire Chief was very nice. Now I know to keep my glasses on when entering the building and that the overhead lights take several seconds to come on… and double triple quadruple check which buttons to push in which order.
Then I turned on my flighty computer to find it had not reset text in an out of office message. I had been monitoring my email by blackberry Thursday afternoon and Friday while traveling – but with the flighty computer turned off I did not know the auto responder function was still on until…. 134 emails went out at 6:34am Letting everyone know I would be out of the office from December 19th 2008 through the 22nd. Before I could answer back a did receive a lot of emails which let me know it was already 2009.
The day got better after that. (Well so far anyway)
Posted: February 4, 2009 at 7:48 am | Tags: Broadcasting, Social Networking
I just can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve updated this blog! Now that I’ve been invited to speak on the topic of Social Networking I figure it’s time to return to being social on the network.
Last week an old friend and colleague of mine sent me a note – pretty much out of the blue. Back at the dawn of the internet I worked for the New York Times Company at their Norfolk Virginia Television Station WTKR. I was the first “Webmaster” for Newschannel Three and had a desk in the promotions office above the studios. I had also worked as a Producer for WNIS radio – writing and producing the morning news casts for the station presented by the television news anchors.
Straight across the newsroom was Danny Epperson, who was one of the main Producers for the local news effort. I remember having fun talking with Danny about what I was doing with HTML and how the nuts and bolts of the internet were actually connected. Keep in mind this was in the early 90’s and the internet was “new” – heck – this was BG! (Before Google)
Flash Forward about 15 years and now Danny is the Producer of “HearSay With Cathy Lewis” on WHRV-FM and “What Matters” on WHRO-TV. If you are out of this market you should know that Cathy is highly respected in Hampton Roads by her peers in Broadcasting and has been doing her very popular Public Affairs radio talk show and the TV version for many years.
Danny spotted me on FaceBook and invited me to be a guest on the HearSay program this March 3rd. I’ll be talking about Social Networking… so… I came to work early this morning so I could post this tidbit to my blog and well, now we’ve come full circle. OMG I just can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve updated this blog!
