Yup, this weekend is the beginning of the roof replacement project.  My friend Scott and I took to the scaffold and began tearing off the water damaged decorative roof trim and soffit/eave. I jumped on the roof hoping to gain some leverage with the repairs and learned the pitch was a bit more than...
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I suppose there is a lot to be said regarding today’s announcement at the Yakima Herald-Republic… but I am going to defer to a fellow YH-R staffer Pat Muir on the most recent journalism layoff announcement. “From four to six employees have been or will be laid off from the 38,077-circulation Herald-Republic, depending on...
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OK, that title is a bit of a mouthful, but when facing a trip into the mountains to shoot video and still photos on snowmobiles — detail is necessary to describe the rig. When trying to describe the arrangement of bags over the phone with friends afterward, the best term I could come up...
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So, if you haven’t heard, the business of producing news is becoming a business of survival.  With the down economy and changes swirling around the industry of ‘free press’ — many of us in journalism are suffering like never before. – We really can’t do much beyond pushing forward every day; doing our best...
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Testing the excerpt
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So our blip.tv tests went pretty darn well.  Not only do they work with just about anything we throw at it, whether it is our Ruby based CMS or our blogs running off of WordPress… it just works.  The AP’s new host has caused us so many headaches, and hours for me working with...
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