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6/15/09 9:50 PM

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I bumped into Gus Sentementes downtown last Thursday. He snapped my photo on his iPhone and we chatted briefly before I had to run back over and do the grunt work for WBAL-AM's Rob Lang (link) at a Constellation Energy press conference.

Today, he blogged about it. The same day I got retweeted (link) by Brent "Lt. Data" Spiner as I chimed in with a god-awful pun. I suddenly had all these followers and no idea where they were coming from for a few minutes. The Internet is a funny place.

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6/12/09 11:06 PM

Today was the switch to digital television. It happened today at 12:30 and it happened without incident. No injuries were reported. America still exists. Unless you're in, say, Lousiana, where according to The NYT's (and Baltimore Student Media's and formerly The Towerlight's, in the interest of full disclosure) Brian Stelter, a WAFB call center in Baton Rouge was inundated (link) with folks who claimed they had no warning. Assuming that WAFB ran as many PSA's and on-air reminders and countdowns as Baltimore-area stations ran, if these people didn't notice anything about the DTV switch, they probably aren't watching enough TV to make it worth their time. They don't deserve to have nice things, simple as that. I'm just glad the switch is over and done with. No more whining. No more PSA's...

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6/6/09 11:50 PM

No, this blog has not yet faded into the wild blue yonder. I'm still here. Just busy with things like work, an internship and (natch) Towerlight stories. Yeehaw. First, props to Gus Sentementes, the Sun writer who just launched the BaltTech blog. Good stuff. And bonus points for putting Tyler Tech on the blogroll. Tried the Xbox Live beta of "1 vs. 100" tonight. The idea of a live announcer and real prizes fascinated me greatly. Then I realized the announcer was only there once every ten minutes or so to quip about Canadian players and the prizes were, like the cake that popped up in one question, a lie. Since this was only a beta, the arcade games and Microsoft points people were winning do not exist. Instead, I was playing for sweepstakes entries. Microsoft, you've gone...