Just felt the need to post some photos of our cute little guy. He’s having a ball with the push-cart thingy our friend Jan gave him.
The Horror
In a stunning blow to Red Sox Nation, the evil empire scooped up Johnny D. last night. 
Say it ain’t so, somebody? The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy sums it up this way:
So now your Boston Red Sox have no center fielder, no shortstop, and no first baseman to go along with no Theo Epstein and no clue. It’s fair to say this is becoming a winter of discontent in Red Sox Nation.
Ah, there is trouble in Beantown, and no savoir in sight. How could the front office have let Johnny Damon go? I can only hope the Braves pickup of BoSox refugee Edgar Renteria gives my other fave team some help in 2006 with Furcal heading to the Dodgers.
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360 Time
To complement our spiffy new HDTV, I managed to find an Xbox360 on eBay for not-too-high a premium. JoeBobATLThe Fedex guy came a day earlier than the tracking said it would (who knew that was even possible), and I was like a kid on the first night of Hannukkah as the delivery dude came up the front steps. In a word, the image this thing produces on the SXRD is stunning. I had picked up Project Gotham Racing, Madden 2006 and Kameo – and every one of them is just mind bogglingly beautiful. PGR is especially slick – driving the streets of NYC and seeing the skyline come hurtling toward you, driving past the casinos of Las Vegas by your headlights – all the while seeing true-to-life reflections and dirt on your windscreen. I’ve also partially hooked this up to our Dell PC running Media Center Edition 2005. I did have to update it to this year’s patch, but once I did, the two machines saw each other easily. Now I can get photos, video and music from my desktop on the Sony in the living room. Spiffy! Embedded here in this post is my XboxLive ‘GamerCard’ that shows my current reputation, score and ‘zone’, whatever that is. It will also show any games I’ve gone online with.
Digital Edge Awards
The Newspaper Association of America’s New Media Federation (one of the top two online
journalism ogranizations focused on the newspaper business) has announced their 2006 awards nominees – and two of my old companies – The Savannah Morning News and The Augusta Chronicle received the ol’ hat tip in the Best Overall News Site (50k-99k circulation).
Also receiving kudos for innovative storytelling in the 50k-100k category is a multimedia project photographed by Josh Meltzer for the Roanoke News, where Josh and my good friend Natalee Waters are photojournalists. Augusta also gets a nomination for their ‘Spotted‘ site – a slick take on user-generated photo-blogging their parent company, Morris Communications, has syndicated to several of their newspapers.
Also nominated is the Chronicle’s Masters web site. I launched this back in 1996 in a joint effort with Sports Illustrated magazine. In 1997, we took the “Digital Edge Award”, recognizing the most innovative web site in the newspaper industry, besting papers of all sizes including the New York Times which took the number two spot that year. Morris has a great history of breaking new boundaries in the online news business, and it looks like this continues today. Great to see my old cohorts keeping up the good work!
technorati tags: savannah, augusta, newspaper, morris communication, naa, digital edge awards