How About This: January 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Future of Television News

The Wall Steet Journal's website posted this video on January 23, 2009, looking at the future role of television news.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Campus Office Internet Connection Much Slower Now

Here in Egan Hall, the speed of the Internet connection in my office is significantly slower than before the University switched to another internet service provider during the Christmas break. I sure wish I'd saved the earlier test results. Here's a test a ran a couple of minutes ago:

The download speed is about what I've been getting since the semester started - and it's slightly slower than my typical DSL download speed at home. The upload speed here at the office is much faster than my home connection, but today's result is about 1/3 of the upload speed I've gotten in a dozen tests during the past week.

My office connection used to be really, really fast. I hope this is just a temporary problem.

Update: Here's the speedtest for my connection at home "later that same day..."

Sunday, January 18, 2009

President Gerald Ford's Talk to the Nation After Taking the Oath of Office

In my lifetime there have been two out-of-the-ordinary times when a person took the oath of office and became President of the United States. One of those times occurred because of Watergate and the resignation of Richard M. Nixon in 1994. Here is how Gerald Ford began his talk with the nation immediately after taking the oath of office.

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As MSNBC has made sure we know, they're the source of this clip. It's part of their coverage of this year's Presidential Inauguration events when Barak Obama will become the 44th President of the United States two days from now. As recently announced, we can visit MSNBC and not only read stories and watch and listen to video and audio clips, we can also read transcripts of many videos and jump to different parts of the talks by clicking on that part of the transcript. And as I've done here, we can select clips to embed on other websites.