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The Problems Inherent in Doing a News Post

Posted by Kirk M on 01 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Life at home

I started the day off with a "latest news" type post and in the making of this post (by bantering around the news sites and listing the most interesting stuff I could find for your reading pleasure) a friend of ours stopped by wanting to use me and my Internet connection to book tickets from here to there for yet another trip he insists he can’t afford. Don’t ask…you’d have to meet him for yourself. This little effort took 3 hours with him ending up on my phone talking to in person because the flights were being booked faster than we could work Travelocity’s website.

It never fails to amaze me that booking flights 3 and 1/2 weeks ahead of time doesn’t provide enough lead time apparently.

This is how the post started out…

Just a short haul through the news here.

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  • Microsoft is attempting to buy Yahoo again to a tune of 45 billion dollars. Will Steve Ballmer ever give up? Considering the bind that Yahoo is in they might just take him up on his offer this time. So what would it be? YaLive? LiveHoo? MSN-Ya’, MicroHoo? Here’s a sampling of blogger reactions on CNN to look over in case you’re interested. Personally I don’t think it would do a thing but save Yahoo’s rear end. Otherwise…same old, same old.
  • And the 700MHZ block minimum bid being met. Wireless is due to get a whole lot better that is if the old US of A’s economy manages to survive to 2009 intact.
  • Someone’s rolling around under the Mediterranean Sea with an oversize pair of wire clippers and they clipped yet a third major underwater communications cable to the Middle East. Now tell me that this isn’t being done on purpose.
  • President Bush finally admits that the current US economy is headed down the toilet. Well, howdy-do to you too Mr. B, now tell us something that we already didn’t know.

Now the thing about a blogger writing up a "what’s news" post like the one above is that you need to get it published as soon as possible simply because the life of the stories you are posting about is approximately 3.1417 minutes at the outside, so the above semi-post was well past history by the time 3:00PM rolled around.

Be that as it may and in the light that this post really doesn’t mean anything anymore, I just thought you might want to see that I actually attempted to get something out today. And the next time our friend wants to come over and book tickets for a flight that doesn’t exist, I’ll charge him by the half hour.

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