Archive for March, 2008
Hasta la vista, shiny new camcorder
Thursday, March 27th, 2008You could sense the excitement yesterday morning when an email went out from our fearless leader, Chip, informing us that Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator himself, would be visiting The Tribune for a meeting with our editorial board.
The email went out around an hour and a half before Arnie was scheduled to arrive. No time […]
Our shiny new camcorder
Monday, March 24th, 2008For a while now, our reporting staff have been producing videos to accompany stories when appropriate, but until last week, they’ve always had to do so with either woefully substandard or mind-bogglingly technical equipment. That’s all changed now, because Sally managed to get them a shiny new digital camcorder.
After a couple of false starts, […]
It’s all Eliot Spitzer’s fault
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008You may find the news about Eliot Spitzer intriguing, but not after the seventh time you’ve been told about it. Or even the second. I’d never even heard of him until yesterday, but that may be due to my own personal lack of interest in current events. Alternatively, it could be because I […]
I’m duly qualified
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008I returned from my “baby vacation” yesterday to find a suspicious yellow envelope on my desk. I say “suspicious” because typically, no one sends me mail that’s not of the “e” variety, so I consider any envelope left on my desk, yellow or otherwise, to be suspicious. Upon inspection, […]