Loading ...How about that quickie storm this morning eh?
I shot that video on my way to work this morning for use in our newscast this morning. And then I went home for lunch and was gobsmacked at the crystal clear blue skies and definite lack of storm. I don’t get a chance to peep out the [...]
Managing editor and awesome cartoonist Bill Dunn has updated his blog with his latest editorial cartoons. Check them out! And Independent copy editor, Corbin Crable is getting the hang of this blogging thang and has updated his Cinemuck blog with his review of Oscar-nominated film “Juno” as well as a little commentary about actor Heath [...]
This week has been a bit of a battle in trying to ensure the website is loaded each night. The machine we use to do this keep corrupting the database and crashing. Since the copy desk takes care of loading the site, they don’t know how to fix that sort of thing and so it [...]
It’s been a slow news day, at least locally. Fortunately, we have nothing like the Britney Spears trainwreck escapades to keep the place jumping. Instead we have local news for you know, the locals. Our farm community is probably more interested in predictions for the ag market this year than whether Ms. Spears showed up [...]
How about that Surprise!Snow out there this morning? Last I checked, my weather updates said 20% chance of the white stuff. Turned out to be a 20% chance, 80% big fat lie.
But I didn’t come here to whinge about the snow that fell *just* after the last few batches had melted enough to make the [...]
The problem has been solved. It was a hung process on the server causing all this angst. Thanks for everyone’s patience while we fixed it. Today’s stories have been loaded now and hopefully we won’t have this issue tonight
I got a call in the middle of the night and it was the copy desk telling me they were having problems loading the website. They tell me where they are having problems and at first it sounded like an easy fix. So I walked them through what should be done and… it didn’t work.
I [...]
Here it is, a new year and new changes will be happening to us in the coming year as we transition to our new company. I just want to give fair warning that there could be some bumps in the road as we learn new tools and rebuild our website using those tools.
One of the [...]