Stop the Spaminess!

Look people, even if you type the comment by hand, if your site looks like a spam site, I will not approve your comment. And yes, I check your site before I approve you. Leave me alone!

All Hail the HD

So this past Saturday, my family and I rejoined the ranks of the non-antenna using tv watchers. It has been around 4 years since I had something other than OTA, so I was really looking forward to getting more than the 15 stations we had.

Last year I made the jump into HD, and since then I have been loving watching all the HD I could get my hands on. Thankfully all the local stations in my area broadcast their prime time line up in HD, so we had a pretty decent selection of shows to watch.

The long road to HD

When I began to be frustrated with my viewing choices, I started looking around for options where pay HD content was concerned. My choices were a tad slim to say the least. Since making the move to HD I have steadily become a hater of all things SD. I don't want to watch stuff in SD anymore, if I did I would have bought a Digital SD set, not an HD one.

Much to my dismay, all the providers in my area only offered HD as an add on to a traditional SD package. Since I would never voluntarily watch those stations, it seemed like to high a premium for a couple of HD stations. I was out of luck as they say. Thankfully my luck was about to change.

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My favorite part

Of this video is that Robin is Rachel. Priceless. Via Garret Murray who is now sporting the tumblog.

Rough edges

Thanks to all the people who have emailed me outlining the rough edges left on the site. Most of the them I knew about, but a couple had escaped my notice.

Yes, yet another design

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, BAM! I hit you with a new design.

I really dug the previous design, but it never felt... refined. There was just something missing. So I started thinking about what designs of mine that I have liked the most over the years, and each one I came up with had a couple of things in common.

First of all, they were narrow widths. I am a big fan of using more screen real estate, but there is just something I dig about a narrow design. Maybe it is the ease with which you can read the posts. Who knows. I just love em.

Second, they all had at least the illusion of a single column. I think that the previous design suffered from "too much crap" syndrome. There was just so much going on, that it was hard to find exactly what I wanted you to read. With this new design, I am going back to my older mantra: Content is King.

Well that is it for now, i am tired and need to get some sleep. Things aren't 100% yet, so bear with me and the rough edges. Oh and do let me know what you think, hate or love.