I’ve been messing around with various methods of creating videos for YouTube for about a year and a half now. I’ve had varying success, but I recently started taking recorded DVDs and putting clips on YouTube. And the process has been clumsy, until now.
Here’s my situation. I bought a video capture card three years ago, [...]

Hey, it’s March 28! You know what that means right? It was back in 1996, after about about six months of messing around with web pages on this cool new thing called the worldwide web, that I decided it was time to register my own domain name.
I remember sitting at the desk in my house [...]

On Monday of this week, Senator Hillary Clinton gave a speech in which she suggested creating an economic stimulus package of $30 billion to stave off home foreclosures. She offered further details about her plan, and finished by saying, “some may claim that the plan I’ve outlined today is a ‘bailout.’ They’ll argue that it’s [...]

I like President Bush. I voted for President Bush. But there are times when I watch him talk and my gut is telling me, “don’t believe him.”
President Bush had the potential to become one of our greatest presidents. But he failed in his ability to simply be honest. I’ve had this feeling about him a [...]

If you read my blog regularly, you know that I’m a self-proclaimed news junkie. As such, I don’t like listening to music on the way to work in the morning. I much prefer to listen to a good news program.
Well, I’ve been at my current job at St. Norbert College for four years now, and [...]

Last year, Governor Jim Doyle (D - Wisconsin) launched a statewide anti-smoking initiative. It’s in the news this week because a state Assembly committee voted Tuesday 6-3 to send a proposed statewide smoking ban to the full Assembly. Groups like the Tavern League of Wisconsin are against the ban. And there are of course groups [...]

The big news around these parts today is that Brett Favre announced his retirement from the Green Bay Packers. The story broke on the internet at 8:30am, with further stories and confirmations throughout the day. By noon, it was old news, and the only new stuff appearing on the internet were stories from various sportscasters’ [...]

According to the National Women’s History Project, March is National Womens History Month. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History claims responsibility for originating Black History Month, celebrated in the United States each February.
Why do we do this to ourselves? We Americans don’t get it. Let’s go back a few years. [...]

It’s been a month since I last wrote, but I’ve been thinking a lot. Quite a lot. And I realize that this blogger has been doing a lot of complaining and ranting lately. I don’t know why. I suppose it’s political season and I’m seeing and hearing a lot that I don’t like. But tonight, [...]