Thursday, April 27, 2006

The state of broadband in West Virginia

Broadband internet connections have been around for a while. Cable TV operators have been offering fast connections since the late 1990s. When you say cable TV operators here in West Virginia, you mean Charter.

Charter first offered broadband in Huntington in 1998 or 1999 as I recall. Broadband followed me to Charleston in 2000. I got a broadband connection for the first time in 2000. At first I was a beta tester. It didn't work well at all at first. Now I'm not sure how I ever lived with without it.

The Charleston Gazette reports today that broadband availability up 40 percent in West Virginia in 2005 but the state still behind rest of nation. Even small towns like my home town of Richwood now has DSL access, but gaps remains.

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Electric Wind

Looks like the citizens of northern Greenbrier County aren't the only ones worried about proposed wind projects to produce electricity. Beech Ridge Energy has proposed to build 40-story turbines across Cold Knob, a tall, over 4,0000 ft. summit.

The Boston Globe reports Senator Kennedy is fighting a similar project on Cape Cod. The Cape isn't as tall, but just as windy.

Don Surber says Let Them Sit In The Dark And Freeze To Death and for once I agree with him.

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WB gets petty about "We are...Marshall" pictures

Last Friday and Saturday Rick Lee posted pictures from the last day of production of the "We are...Marshall" movie in Huntington. This morning I ran into Rick in Taylor Books, and he told me that Warner Brothers has requested he take them down.
Warner Brothers has requested that I take down the production stills from "We Are Marshall". For reasons I won't go into here, I have decided to comply with this request for the time being. I'm sorry if you didn't get to see them. Perhaps I can have some of the back up at a later time.

I find this outrageous. Why goes the Huntington Herald-Dispatch and other publications a pass to run basically the same photos?

This is poor public relations. Looks like I need to send Ernie Malik, publicist for the "We Are Marshall" movie, a copy of the Cluetrain Manifesto. At the very least he should be reading Doc Searls. Markets are conversations Ernie.

Thanks to the magic of Google cache, Rick's removed posts including pictures can be found here. Scroll down to see the pictures.

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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Green and White Game Pictures

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Saturday, April 22, 2006

I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain

The GAZZ Editor recounts a harrowing tale of trying to get tickets to see James Taylor at the Clay Center.

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A Spy in the House of Thunder

Don Surber has dubbed it the The Nathan Hale Mary Pass. WVU denies spying on the Herd.

We can thank the Charleston Daily Mail for breaking the story of a WVU student in the stands taking notes on the Herd's practice. Now I bleed green and white, but looking at how the two teams match up this year, I don't think the WVU football program has much to worry about. But there was the basketball upset, so I guess they might.

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Hot Dogs and Slaw

WV Hot Dog Blog examines the Slaw Belt Theory and makes a visit to Gold Dome Bar & Grill. I've always wanted to try the Gold Dome. I've heard good things about it over the years. The truth is I'm craving Stewarts most of the time. I haven't had a Stewarts hot dog since last fall. Might be time for a trip to Huntington.

You can blame Bob Coffield for the doggers tag.


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Marshall Movie Wraps in Huntington

Friday marked the last day of filming for "We are... Marshall" in Huntington. The crew will be on hand for the Green and White Game today for crowd shots.

Rick Lee has pictures from the last day of filming on campus.

Wabi-Sabi has pictures from his appearance in the movie.

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Friday, April 21, 2006

Ramp Time

Yes it is Ramp Time in Richwood. I plan to make a trip to the annual Feast of the Rampson in the morning, if I feel better.

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Thursday, April 20, 2006

WV Food P0rn

There is a new GAZZ blog. This time it's about food: There's a Blog in My Soup. I can't find an RSS feed for it, so it isn't in the blogroll yet.

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Monday, April 17, 2006

Yet Another West Virginia Blogger

I found this one while looking at pages that had recently linked to this blog. The name of the blog is Scarlet Tanager.

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No Credit Card Needed

DowntownWV reports a Taylor Books webcam might be coming soon.

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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Marshall on film

The Huntington Herald-Dispatch has put all their Marshall movie links on one page.

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Friday, April 14, 2006

Peeps Pie: You can tell it's almost Easter


My lovely fiance found this recipe for Peeps Pie.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

HD Marshall Movie Blog Feed

The RSS, or I should say Atom, feed for the HD's Morshall Movie Blog is http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/mumovie/atom.xml. I've also added it to the blogroll.

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FestivALL and New GAZZ Blogs RSS Feeds

Rebecca Burch points out the Official FestivALL Site. There is also a new blog over at the GAZZ blogs devoted to FestivALL.

The RSS feeds for the DowntownWV blog is http://thegazz.com/blogs/downtownwv/atom.xml, and the RSS feed for the FestivALL blog is http://thegazz.com/blogs/festivallcharleston/atom.xml.

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Yesterday's and Today's Marshall Movie Links

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

New WV Blog

There are some changes over at the GAZZ blogs. One is the addition of DowntownWV.

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Monday, April 10, 2006

Today's Marshall Movie Links

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Sunday, April 09, 2006

The Daily Rant has moved

WV blogger Michael at The Daily Rant has moved and spilt his blogs in two. He now has a personal and a tech blog. I have updated my blogroll.

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Today's Marshall Movie Links

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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Even More Marshall Movie Links

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New WV Blogger

Dale Morton started blogging at CAB4. He reports Rick Lee and Bob Coffield help set him up. Dale's blog is here. I've added him to the blogroll.

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CAB4 Pictures

Rick Lee has posted his pictures of CAB4.

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Friday, April 07, 2006

Adult Swim

WV and GAZZ bloggers Rudy Panucci and Melanie Larch have a nice round-up of what's new at Adult Swim, including news that the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie is in the can. According to published reports, Rudy made it to the CAB meeting today. Sorry I didn't get to meet you Rudy.

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One last shot to be in the Marshall Movie

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The first of the CAB 4 reports rolls in

Scott Mitchell provides an attendance report for CAB 4. Sorry I couldn't make it. Coffield had my proxy. Did anyone take any pictures?

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Thursday, April 06, 2006

Bill Lynch is back

Bill Lynch, formerly know as Grossly Underpaid over at the GAZZ blogs is back. Bill's blog Don't print this is are real gem, and he is a real gem of a writer. Thanks to the sometimes irascible, always red Raging Red for the tip. I've already added him to the blogroll.

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Today's Marshall Movie Links

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New WV Blogger - Carpe you some diem, dammit!

Rebecca Burch, a local art teacher and talented artist, has started an art blog. I've already added her to the blogroll.

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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Yellow Art Comes Down, Again

The Thirty Artists Think Yellow installation piece came down around 1 p.m. today. This time it was planned. Artist Amy Williams was in attendance.

Rick Lee checked out the art still showing inside Taylor Books Annex Gallery yesterday and has some great pictures.

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H-D blogs

The Huntington Hearld-Dispatch has blogs. I stumbled across them while reading the latest Marshall Movie news. There is a Marshall Movie blog.

Like the GAZZ blogs they are powered by Blogger. I haven't gone digging for the RSS feeds, but I will report back after I do. They should really publish them somewhere.

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Sept. 25, 1971 - Xavier 13, Marshall 15

There is much buzz but little real coverage of the filming of "We Are Marshall" movie. One of this things that throws up a red flag to me is the announcement of the use of at least two composite characters. I really hope they don't take too much artistic license with this true story.

Wabi-Sabi reports the city of Huntington has officially gone Hollywood.

And don't forget to check out whereinhuntingtonismatthewmcconaughey.com.

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WV Blogger Meet-up

The Holywriter wants to do a WV Blogger Meet-up in Parkersburg on May 20.

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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Huntington Hot Dogs

WV Hot Dog Blog finally gets to my one of my favorite hot dog places, Frostop. It's been more than a few years since I've had a hot from there. It sounds like the product is going downhill.

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It's Rick Lee's blog-versary

Tomorrow is Rick Lee's one year blog anniversary. CAB4 is this Friday at his studio. Guess we can turn this CAB into a blog-versary party. Congrads to Rick.

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Fixed

The Blogger bug that broke MarsEdit is fixed. I have a lot of catching up to do.

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Sunday, April 02, 2006

We Are Marshall

We missed the block party to kick off the filming of the Marshall movie. It sure looked like it was a lot of fun.

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Problem with MarsEdit and Blogger

After many happy weeks with MarsEdit, Google has made changes to to their Atom API that breaks MarsEdit and Blogger.

They say they are working on a fix, but it's really slowing down all the post I've saved for this weekend.

There is no time to blog during the week anymore. It's just too busy.

No Technorati Tags on this blog until Google gets this fixed.

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Saturday, April 01, 2006

April Fools

I'm sick of April Fool jokes already. None of them are really that funny, but geeks love them for some reason. I did make an April Fools post last year, but this year I'm passing.

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