Back in the Day...

Once upon a time, a long time ago (1995ish), I was the webmaster for ITV News in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Back then, one of our challenges was to try and attract viewers to this new medium - the Internet. One way we found that worked, was to translate our news scripts to html, and include images from the stories. We also experimented with sound, but many people at that time didn't have bandwidth or systems able to play the files. Stumbling throught the Internet Archive - the Wayback Machine - I came across the first web news story we ever did, a fairly visual piece on the 1995 Millwoods Shopping Mall fire. A bit dated when compared to today's CNN/Reuters stories, or the Blogosphere, but it was cutting edge for its time.
Source: Millwoods Shopping Mall Fire, ITV (Internet Archive) Technorati Tags: Television, News, Edmonton, Alberta, Internet, Archive, ITV, Canada

Phun with Photos...

This is a cool little experiment that Flickr is running - a flash 'thingie' that grabs and displays random photos in a small window. Since I'm on the cusp of acquiring a new camera phone, I expect this and other flickr blog thingies will make appearances here. Source: Flickr's Daily Zeitgeist Technorati Tags: Photography, blog, blogging, photoblog, utility, tool, fun, random

Free Gmail Invites

Looks like Google has freed up some more Gmail invites - so here ye be - 6 spanky new gmail invtes to the first 6 5 0 folk (1 per person, please) to email a request to: bradblog@gmail.com ** UPDATE ** Sorry, all invites are now taken. Source: Gmail.com Technorati Tags: Gmail, email, google, mail, free, invite

A test of Hello working with Blogger

This photo is a shot of Edmonton's City Hall and the Court House, in the foreground. The shot was uploaded using Hello -> Interesting, it seemed to drop my footer info from the post template.

Dirty Pool..

It seems that Quicken users are losing some online functionality. BoingBoing reports:

Quicken disables the software you paid for to force paid upgrades Norvy sez, "I bought Quicken 2002 when it was the current version. I received a letter in the mail this week telling me that Intuit will be disabling the online bill pay feature for my version because it's too old!

Me is pissed. It seems that they're also retiring the QIF file format with another one, which means that if my bank converts, I'll have to buy the latest version of the software to remain compatible. Source: BoingBoing Technorati Tags: Quicken, Financial, Software, Disabled, Broken