Av's Schedule: Gadget and Calendar Update
I've updated both the
Google Calendar and
Homepage Gadget to include the
2007-2008 regular season schedule. The calendar also includes
preseason games, but not as web events.
Just like last year, once the season begins all games will be updated with final scores and links to the official game summary on ColoradoAvalanche.com. In some cases, when I'm alert, paying attention and have reliable wifi access, scores may even be updated live throughout the game.
Unlike last year, I'm really hoping to use these tools through at least SOME of the post season. Help me out here, boys...Go Av's!
Labels: Colorado Avalanche, Google Calendar
The 2007-2008 schedule has been announced, including 6 preseason games beginning September 19 against Los Angeles! I'll have the Google Gadget and calendar updated by the weekend. More to follow.
Labels: Colorado Avalanche, Google Calendar, NHL
Our trip to California is long behind us and I still haven't shared the
photos yet. That's just me being lazy, really.
It was a great trip, one of those life-long-memories sort of trips, and yet I still don't know how to begin to describe it here without writing a novella. Nobody wants that. So browse the pictures and if anyone wants to hear more, just find me and I'll be happy to tell you all about it!
Labels: Cheyenne, Personal, Vacation
Call it what it is...we're saying goodbye
Without any of the fanfare that preceded it's debut, Studio 60 will return May 24th to burn off the remaining episodes and give fans a chance to say goodbye. Closure isn't guaranteed and satisfaction isn't even a realistic hope. The show is returning to a timeslot that doesn't belong to any show that doesn't have the initials "ER," well after the end of May sweeps, two weeks after the fall schedule will be announced.
No one is expecting a second season, lead actors are popping up in other projects, and both Sorkin and the network have been silent - but not in that "I have a secret!" sort of way. It's all very "I just have nothing to say."
So of course I'll watch it. I'll tune in and hold it's hand and comfort it through it's final throes as it slips into oblivion. I'll enjoy every last moment offered. I'll buy the inevitable DVD. I'll read the blogs and message boards until they fizzle out down the road. And I'll miss it. It was great television and a rare treat. I guess I'll just have to switch my attention to my other favorite show to debut this past season, "Knights of Prosperity."
It's what?! Son of a ...
What's with the new look?
The short answer is I was ready for a change. Spring was in the air and blah blah blah...
The real truth behind what motivated me to revamp the site is that I was embarrassed. My code was sloppy, and much of the previous look was borrowed from a template I found online. I had a lot of css hacks throughout the old look, and cringed at the thought of another intelligent designer checking out my source code.
This new look is all me, completely my design and code. And for the most part, is finally fully standards compliant. Content in the html, design in the stylesheets. The way it's supposed to be. The way I design at work and implore to anyone who listens. The way I always say it should be done, but was too lazy to implement here. Until now.
Feel free to check it out, kick the tires, look behind the curtain all you like, then let me know what you think.
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Studio 60 terminal, but not dead...Yet.
I'm no Hollywood insider or entertainment industry reporter, but you can't keep me out of Google Reader, and five of my two dozen blog subscriptions are either blogs or Google search alerts scanning for news of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. NBC has really kept fans of the show hanging on this one. Is it cancelled? Is it coming back? What about unaired episodes? Some of us have paid for a full season subscription through iTunes. ONE of us (guilty!) paid for that full season just days before "4a.m. Miracle" (the final broadcast episode to date) aired. Ouch.
For those who, like me, are hanging in there for our own 4a.m. Miracle, here's what Google Reader delivered to me today:
“Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”: The future of Aaron Sorkin’s high-profile series has been unclear since it was pulled from NBC’s lineup a week early for the premiere of the Paul Haggis crime drama, “The Black Donnellys.” According to a spokesperson for Warner Brothers, which produces “Studio 60,” the 18th episode is currently being filmed and 22 episodes will be shot. NBC hasn’t said if or when the final six original episodes will air. Not a good sign.
The series’ low February ratings, when Sorkin highlighted the romantic comedy elements, appear to have made the chances of it getting a second season unlikely. Before those episodes aired, Sorkin told critics in California that the show was getting the kind of upscale viewers that NBC covets and that it also was among the most TIVOed shows on television. However, it is very expensive to produce and needed better overall ratings to stay on the schedule.
Its recent replacement, “The Black Donnellys,” hasn’t been a ratings success nationally, but ratings in Buffalo for the first two episodes were about 40 percent higher than what “Studio 60” was getting.
Viewers irritated by a different March Madness (Alan Pergament)
Buffalo News: Entertainment. 03/13/2007
Have mercy on the faithful, NBC. This feels like a third date that went very well, now you won't return my calls. It was too soon to call it a commitment, but I at least deserve a little closure. Announce something. Deliver the unaired episodes, even if only online. Better yet, if you have lost faith in S60 as a prime-time network contender, hand it off to Bravo or USA. Read the boards...your own boards....bring it back and you've got a lock on a larger audience than Psych can deliver.
Labels: entertainment, studio 60, tv
