Posted by The Independent on January 10th, 2008 in General News, Website
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 [...]
Posted by The Independent on January 7th, 2008 in General News, Website
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 [...]
Posted by The Independent on December 10th, 2007 in Newsroom, Website
There’s been a lot of news around here lately. Some good, some break-your-heart horrible. It’s hard to know how to talk about a newsroom’s reaction and plans for covering events like the shootings in Omaha without sounding like I don’t care about what happened in Omaha. But as a newspaper, we must make plans for [...]
Posted by The Independent on December 5th, 2007 in Website
Well we had a meltdown with the website Monday night. I won’t bore with the details but the gist of it is the software we use to publish the site was throwing major errors and databases were corrupted and one midnight phone call later I told the copy desk to leave it and I’d see [...]