Month: September 2004

Not to name names, but I think this blog should be updated more often. :p

Internet has long been touted as a medium where many different senses will collide — including visual, aural and sometimes tactile. While I’ve often used the visual medium to express myself, I’ve decided to take advantage of the Audioblogger service to express myself using sound. Here’s my first post:

It’s a brief, and inconsequential, account of my activities tonight. As things develop, I want to post audio messages that take full advantage of the medium. Tonight’s post serves merely as a test of the things to come.

If you have any ideas, please drop me a line at ryan -at- rtomedia.com. Thanks.

Well, not for a while yet anyway. However, Apple Computer announced the new G5 iMacs in Paris yesterday, and they look pretty snazzy. The new computers are up to 2.2 inches thick and pack the new G5 processor.

It’s true that this is Apple’s consumer CPU so it’s missing a lot of the horsepower the professional machines have (on the system bus, expandability, etc.), but I think the simple, elegant design is a winner. Other PC makers have tried this type of form function before (including Apple’s 20th Anniversary Mac), but it’s always looked like a monitor with CPU guts attached. The new iMac brings monitor and CPU together in a very svelte manner.

I was thinking about buying an eMac (essentially a grown-up CRT iMac) as my next computer, but seeing this new machine makes me want to aim higher.

After many hours, I’ve finally finished one of my long-term projects. I’ve been working to clip all of my articles out of old editions of the newspaper. There were a lot to go through, but it’s done.

From slowly whittling down massive stacks of paper to just getting through the last few editions, I pulled it off earlier this morning. The entire second series of The Office was there to pull me through.

It was interesting pulling through all those newspapers. As I delved deeper, I saw old events, headlines and bylines from years past that brought many old memories back of happenings and friends who have since left the paper.

The stories ranged from the mundane or typical, like meetings, and localizations to the facinating and bizarre, like the story Steve did about the guy who drank antifreeze. I found sections that I paginated, but completely forgot about doing. The same with photos.

Many of the more memorable stories were there in my clips. It was fun seeing where the stories began and where some of them ended.

So all of my work for the past three-and-a-half years has been reduced to a single box that I’ll probably carry around for the rest of my life. It’s funny, but I thought there would be more but I’m probably being foolish.

In the end, I’d like to think I did good work. I hope to do even better the next time.