KHAAANNNN!

Posted by Bob Weber on Jan 14th, 2009 in Alert | 0 comments

Actor Ricardo Montalban, known for his roles as Mr. Roarke of Fantasy Island and Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan has died in his Los Angeles home. He was 88 years old.

Podiobooks – Potty-o-books

Posted by Bob Weber on Mar 12th, 2008 in Alert | 2 comments

I’m currently listening to one of my favorite podcasts. I won’t mention it, or link to it, since this isn’t a very nice post, but I think this needs to be said. Hopefully no one will be offended.

It appears that some authors are serializing their writing using the podcast format. They have adopted the term Podiobook, at least as far back as April 2005.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that anyone said this term out loud. When being discussed the term sounds much more like Potty-o-books than podiobooks, of course, carrying a whole different connotation than intended.

I’m writing this just as a heads up to all you authors out there. If you want this medium to be accepted universally, you might think of changing what you call it. The average American is going to think twice about getting involved with something that sounds like potty.

Happy Leap Day

Posted by Bob Weber on Feb 29th, 2008 in Alert | 0 comments

Here’s hoping everyone had a nice leap day.

Want to apologize for the lack of content this week. I’ve been busy trying to get all caught up on work. Planning a trip to Moab next weekend, and I want to have as much done as possible.

Look for more next week, and soon new Pics from Moab.

Happy 2008

Posted by Bob Weber on Jan 1st, 2008 in Alert, Humor | 0 comments

“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”
–Mark Twain

Happy New Year everybody!

Rockies Computers Fold Like a Lawn Chair

Posted by Bob Weber on Oct 22nd, 2007 in Alert, Humor | 0 comments

Our local Colorado Baseball team, the Colorado Rockies, had a bit of a SNAFU this morning with sales of their World Series tickets.

The decision was made by the team to only make the tickets available online. Unfortunately, after 8.5 Million hits, and some serious webserver meltdown, ticket sales were suspended.

The worst part, the Rockies are getting the heat for this when I’m sure they paid a princely sum of money to Paciolan to provide the online ticket sales.