11:18 – Working on some scripts this morning, and I found all the old notes scripts from 2 years ago archived on CD. I also found most of the old sites I did at System Source on CD as well, except for the one I was looking for, The Jewish Times. It’s really good to see that I’ve not lost a lot of the reasoning and learning I did a few years back- I was able to identify problems I made two years ago and fix them, as well as look at some of the problems and begin to think about new ways to solve them. I’m really excited to get working on this.

Still no word from the Globe poster guy. That bums me out- I want a bunch of those.

I replaced cnn.com today on my links page with abcnews.com‘s news page; after a long relationship with cnn.com going back to about 1997, I can’t use their site anymore. it’s just too much hassle to find any news worth looking at. So I’m going to give the Mouse a try, and see if their newsfeed is any better. I might give the AP site a whirl after that, but other than those sites I don’t know who else has a decent online newsfeed.

As for other news sites, I can’t get over how much news.com and zdnews.com are the same. One REAL bad thing about this economic tailspin we’re in right now is that all the content portals have curtailed their reporting to the bare minimum- I fear in a few years that the only thing to read will be direct pulls off the AP newsfeed. Which is about all the current newspapers ever print anymore.

Baltimore-the City That Reads. Too bad the city newspaper, once home of H.L. Mencken, is now designed and written for a 7th-grade education level. No shit. Somewhere it was just published that this city is proud owner of the highest rate of syphilis in the country. Isn’t that nice.