Air America Radio goes live tomorrow at noon, according to their website – and they’ll be streaming audio, so I’ll be able to listen at work… but tomorrow I’m home, so I’ll give it a try and see if it’s awful, good, or awful good. That is, if this crazy experiment to bring liberal/left of center views to talk radio takes off, eh? It’s certainly gotten plenty of press. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll go on being one of 3 people in America that listens occasionally to “Le Show.” Although when we were in Utah, it was pledge week…
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With limited ability to stay current with some of the blogs I read, I had to content myself with scanning headlines in Bloglines a time or two. But not all of the blogs I read have RSS feeds, and my connection was so slow using dialup at Mom’s house on the laptop that I just had to bide my time and wonder what people were doing. For example, Ben Saunders is still on the ice. A couple of new entries at “Learning Moveable Type” – thanks, Elise! Clack is gloating over AOL’s new anti-spam tactic – raffle off the spammer’s…
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Alistair Cooke’s death was sad news for us this morning; we were lucky enough to hear quite a few installments of his excellent BBC NEWS | Programmes | Letter From America radio series, owing to the fact that our local :NPR affiliate, WBEZ, broadcasts BBC World Services on Saturday mornings. I’ll miss that warm, erudite voice very much. Dammit.
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So we’re home again. It’s been a hella fine weekend, but it’s nice to be back in our own house, and a few hours from now, we’ll sleep in our own bed. The thought fills me with contentment. Of course, the fact that I don’t have to go to work until Monday is probably part of this feeling. After learning the harsh lesson of our outbound trip, we made tracks to the airport early and had no problems at all. It truly was “Easy Check-In.” Won’t check in less than 90 minutes prior to departure again, ever. Nope. Joy of…