Friday, December 28, 2007

good things

We're on the brink of a new year. Life is good:
  • Snow. Two feet of it.
  • Climbing 5.11s.
  • Running outside in the winter.
  • Mom's spare ribs recipe.
  • Buckeye candies.
  • Some new clothes that fit me.
  • New fonts on my computer: Neutra and Warnock.
  • I can make a text scrolly button now, in Actionscript.
  • Plans for a road trip.
  • Plans for a finished basement.
  • The love of a good man.
  • A roof over my head.
  • Food on the table.
  • A most excellent and healthy family.
  • Fabulous friends.
  • A job.
  • A good book. Or four.
  • New music to listen to.
I am thankful.

Labels: , , , , ,

posted by arah @ 2:54 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

Friday, December 7, 2007

won't and can't learn

The ABC network appears to have launched a new website template for its local news affiliates, and as usual, for TV news sites, I remain un-wowed, because the managements' priorities are too clear and have nothing to do with the site visitors. Here are two examples:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/

Once again I'm sent running to news sites produced by newspapers. It's taken a surprisingly long time for some of them to get a handle on an acceptable volume and quality of imagery. But aside from that, it makes complete sense that newspapers were better practiced at dealing with large volumes of, and variations in, content. One of my favorites is still Savannah Now, because it's clean and fun.

Labels: ,

posted by arah @ 9:54 AM 0 Comments Links to this post