We call it Christmas…
You can call it anything you want but don’t ask me to call MY holiday something else because it bothers your sensibilities. I was cruising around Blog Net News / Hampton Roads and saw an article referencing this blog. Blogger’s Community Photo Challenge. The challenge is really simple: This Challenge is…..The Christmas Season! [...]
Christmas Season, Just my ramblings…
My wife doesn’t really understand. Nor do I for that matter. Why I despise this season so much. Katie loves the music, the “feel” in the air, the lights, gifts, and absolutely the reason behind Thanksgiving and more importantly, the reason behind Christmas, the birth of our Lord and Savior. Me? It’s hard for me to look th [...]
It’s that time of year again! Carnival of Christmas!
Kat at Chathouse Chat is hosting this year’s Carnival of Christmas! The Carnival is open to all bloggers who want to share their thoughts, memories, recipes, stories or… whatever about this time of year. It’s a very overt attempt to take our eyes off of the commercialism the the Christmas has become and focus it back on family, j [...]
Google Watchers?
A watchdog group watching the Google Empire to hold them accountable for “Being Evil” in spite of their 10 Guiding Principles. An aside: What exactly is a google: Actually, its a googol, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 [...]
Twitter turns down $500,000,000 offer…
Is this a good idea or bad? Should Twitter have sold off to Facebook? This story broke this morning from Kara Swisher at BoomTown. Her title is priceless: When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled Kara went on to discuss the pros and cons of the takeover. First offer vice wait for something better. I wonder about Twitter& [...]
In Memory of Rick Spaulding – 1956-2005
Early on a Wednesday morning on Novemeber 23rd, 2005 I received a telephone call from a friend. “Rick’s gone.” What? Rick Spaulding, a brother police officer had suffered a heart attack after being involved in a pursuit and subsequent arrest of a suspect. Rick had the suspect in the back of his police car and was transporting him [...]
Portsmouth Judge Rules in favor of FOIA Request again
On Firday, Circuit Court Judge Dean Sword ruled in favor of attorney Verbana Askew who was seeking $8400 dollars in fees, based on a billing rate of $350 per hour. Judge Sword said he was flabbergasted at that amount she was billing. Circuit Court Judge Dean Sword ruled that attorney Verbena Askew was entitled to legal fees from Portsmouth because [...]
Jeff Frederick responds…
Jason Kenney at Bearing Drift has an article up criticizing (rightfully) the RPV’s stance on new media. Jason was very critical (rightfully). He stated that the RPV specifically and the GOP generally has been slow to grasp on and hold on to new technology. Jeff Frederick, the current Republican Party of Virginia Chairman stopped by and respo [...]
Thank you Sarah Palin!
From Our Country Deserves Better PAC comes a great video. I think a lot of conservatives felt energized by Governor Palin. I know I did. [...]
Twice in one day… Virginian-Pilot layoffs…
Twice in one day I’ve heard about the pending layoffs and cut backs at the Virginian-Pilot, Hampton Road’s primary print media source. I had lunch today with a former employee. He mentioned the pending doom. Then this evening, I get an email from another former writer for The Pilot, John-Henry Doucette. He wrote a blog entry discussing [...]
