Newsworthiness

“So, when you go to a council meeting, how do you know which part is the most important to go in your story?”

- unnamed new reporter,
to one of my ex-interns

“Oh, I am so blogging that!”

- Ike Pigott

Good directions

“It’s just easier to deal with the rest of the lost if you don’t remind them how lost they are. They just get angry at you.”

- Ike Pigott

Cleaning up

I had a couple of minor issues to square away.  Apparently, on my last upgrade I didn’t reactivate the “Linkage for Thinkage” list in the sidebar.  That’s just a select list of links that I thought were cool, thought-provoking, or otherwise noteworthy.

Since I can’t remember how long it has been missing in action, I’ve extended the list so you might not miss any of the choice cuts from the internet.

That is all…

Self realization

“I’m just a geek with dreams, and a receptive employer.”

- Ike Pigott

From the same chat with Mike Driehorst

Viva la Blackberry!

I’ve now been on with User Support for more than an hour on a Friday afternoon, to fix a Java dysfunction with my payroll application.

Net result: sitting in my office, while a helpful tech support person controls my machine remotely. We’ve got to be pushing speeds of 7 or 8 baud. Seriously. That’s the Speed of Sephamore.

Thanks to the fine folks at RIM and Opera, for making this post possible sans computer.

[Update: We've got it fixed.  It was a newer version of Java that did not like to play nicely with the others.  We voted it off the island.]

[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, computers, java[/tags]

Nerd Horizon

“The internet has become a jock’s worst nightmare: an infinite number of geeks chasing a piece of Long Tail.”

- Ike Pigott

From a chat with Mike Driehorst

Publishing

Pigott’s Law of Web Publishing: The instant gratification of blogging makes it easy to skirt reality or even outright lie – but if trees are going to die, let’s tattoo them with the truth.”

- Ike Pigott