Killing grammar to death

Actual Reuters headline, as posted to MSNBC:

LOS ANGELES - Rock producer Phil Spector will go on trial in January on charges of killing a B-movie actress to death at his home, nearly four years after the fatal shooting took place, a judge said Friday.

I imagine it'll be fixed before most of you read this.

Box.net gets better

Box.net, a slick, free online storage and sharing site, has unofficially added Webdav support. That means you can put online folders right on your desktop, as if they were local files. In other words, downloading and uploading become a simple matter of dragging and dropping.

Box.net gives you a gigabyte for free and 5 gigabytes for $5 a month.

Now the question: why am I still paying $3 per month to MyDocsOnline for 50 megs?

Blogging as work

I just got word from my boss that reporters here may have to start blogging officially for the newspaper. Ugh.

The problem with newspaper blogs -- aside from being totally pointless in a media setting -- is that most aren't really blogs at all. Free of opinion, heavily edited and devoid of all spunk, most end up reading like half-baked news briefs. Let's hope IBD is willing to take some risks and do something really interesting with these.

Why I woke up at 7:30 on a Sunday

Why I woke up at 7:30 on a Sunday

Apparently, there was an important soccer game going on.