Jun
12
2009
This is truly an AMAZING story!
Irena Sendler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous acts during WWII. Knowing that there were thousands of children in the Nazi Death Camps, she got a job as a plumber for the camps and smuggled over 2500 infants and children out to safety. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Note: She lost to Al Gore.
Read a blog post about the story here HERE
Here is a link to IrenaSendler.org
Jun
11
2009
This is getting scary..
“Administration: Rein in pay in US private sector” Since when is it DC’s job to control how pay for the private sector is determined? Our country is on a slippery slop and there doesn’t see to be anything to stop the downward spiral.
Read article HERE
Jun
8
2009
Last week in NYC, Mark Trammell of Revision3 was able to get a few moments with Drummer for Wallpaper, Arjun Singh.
You are not going to believe how hard hitting this interview is! Good stuff!
Cut Interview from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.
Jun
1
2009
Had a quick but awesome trip to LA this week for the MTV Movie awards where TriCaster was busy streaming exclusive interviews from the Press Bunker.
I posted a bunch of pics on Twitter but thought it would be nice to share them here.
Philip Nelson on the MTV Movie Awards Red Carpet
Technical Director, Victor Borachuk takes control of TriCaster
Mr. Roskin stalks iJustine in the MTV Movie Awards press area
Chris Isaac takes the stage MTV Movie Awards
Ben Still show off his MTV Movie Award.
The cast of Twilight was the most popular of the night.
I had the chance to meet legendary blogger, iJustine. She is a very nice person!
May
26
2009
The TriCaster has become such a mainstay of the live streaming world—it’s used by a veritable media and entertainment who’s who, including Fox Sports, Fox News, MTV, and the BBC—that it’s sometimes easy to take for granted. So I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting to be bowled over by the XD300, but from the online demo, it looks like, if not a game-changer, than certainly the system that will keep NewTek in the game for a long time to come.
Read the article HERE
May
25
2009
Half Price Books in San Antonio was having a Memorial Day 20% sale today and it was my duty to check out their stock and expand my EVER GROWING book collection. Picked up two books for my 2009 “Read a Fiction per Month Challenge” but the find of the night was a book published by Readers Digest in 1981 called “Back to the Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills”.
I’m an “info nerd”.. I love to know how things work, how things are made and how they did it in the “olden days” and this book is a exhaustive reference of how to do just about anything that doesn’t require electricity.
Here is a chapter list
1. Land: Buying It – Building It.
2. Energy From Wood, Water, Wind, and Sun
3. Raising Your Own Vegetables, Fruit, And Livestock
4. Enjoying Your Harvest The Year Round
5. Skills and Crafts for House And Homestead
6. Recreation at Home And in the Wild
Preserving food, cutting your own lumber, raising livestock, making cheese, shaping rocks for a stone wall, cooking on an open flame and MUCH more are in this amazing book.
Can’t wait to try my hand at Cheese Making.. 🙂
Note: The book is now in it’s 3rd edition and is available from Amazon.com
May
24
2009
A good friend of mine, Theresa Hong did a great tribute to her father who is a veteran disabled in service to our country.
Read story HERE
May
24
2009
Thanks to UrbanSurvival.com for sharing this great video on how to use an aluminum can to “Shim” a MasterLock combination lock. Enjoy!!!
May
24
2009
When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald’s recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There’s nothing unusual about that, except that Richards is homeless, too, and the 99-cent cheeseburger was an outsized chunk of the $9.50 he’d earned that day from panhandling.
The generosity of poor people isn’t so much rare as rarely noticed, however. In fact, America’s poor donate more, in percentage terms, than higher-income groups do, surveys of charitable giving show. What’s more, their generosity declines less in hard times than the generosity of richer givers does.
Read the article HERE
May
22
2009
Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.tv gets a behind the scenes look at how Tech Lengend, Leo Laporte produces INSANE amounts of programming each day with his Trusty TriCaster!