... but, I would like to create podcasts for my clients who can invest the time in creating regular content.  And, I'd like to play with audio and maybe some video. Yesterday I went to the Apple Store downtown for their demo in podcast creation using Garageband. Damn. The software they showed allowed for easy editing of audio, video clips, and photographs.  The manipulation of the components was quick.  The audio editor had built-in sounds for broadcasting (royalty-free background music, studio audience noises, and special effects). Any non-professional editing programs I have seen for media creation on a PC have [...]

Protest song from Arianna's site: "I'm the Decider" (Work safe. Clever. Okay, vicious. But, mixed ad hominem message: egghead Bush laments not having a brain. Fun anyway. Thanks, Hollis.)

Check out profkampf's daily gift image.  It does it for me.

Rush Limbaugh flared up in the news this weekend. Despite the dead-news-time scheduling of the announcement of the plea bargain letting him off the doctor-shopping charge in Florida, the second-string weekend editors of the mass media managed find the story on the wires and to trot out file footage detailing the drug consumption crimes. The reportorial tone was that of mentioning a done deal: a footnote to last year’s news. Limbaugh’s light escape from the criminal justice system put me in the same conflicting muddle I felt when death penalty opponents were arguing for clemency for Tookie Williams. […]

Coming home from a business mixer about 8:30 last night, we took Market to Castro. We were inadvertently trailing a police car which had passed us with red lights and siren a mile before, quieted and slowed down, and started preening again as we followed him into the left turn lane. Castro was blocked off with police crime scene tape, emergency equipment littered the street, and clumps of people were scattered inside the roped off area.  We made a normally illegal hard left turn into17th Street, rolled down our windows as we detoured up Hartford, and heard someone on the [...]

Kids filled Ashland’s North Mountain Park to celebrate Earth Day this afternoon.  There were lots of children-accessible hands-on activities focused on the environment and eco-friendly ways of living.  […]

On April 19, 1906 this fire hydrant at 20th and Church was one of the few in the city with water. The people fighting the fires ran hose lines hundreds of feet from this corner to buildings threatened by the conflagration.  The fire line stood. The Mission was saved. Each year The City honors the 1906 firefighters by giving this hydrant a new coat of gold paint. redozdachs and I went out at 7 this morning to watch the ceremonies headlined by Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White (pictured below).

We got up to the sound of church bells and fire sirens sounding a 100th anniversary commemoration of the great fire and earthquake. The City uses all occasions as an excuse for a party. Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke of the city's ability to celebrate the tenacity of human spirit. Then the Major interviewed all of the 100-year-old earthquake survivors on live television. Great reality TV. My favorite was the woman who talked about being raised by prostitutes after the fire... her mother and father were busy reviving the family's bar business and the ladies "were always home" and able to look [...]