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November 16, 2001 Aggravations in Need of A Remedy

Ugh, not a great day for me as a TechTV fan. First, I discovered last night that the TechTV website has removed support for its older Real Media Files from its Media Module, the website component that pops up whenever you click on a video link. The result of which is that the links to the older TSS video clips on my links page will no longer work. I have to be content with my memories of my favorite, "Kate's RAM poetry." My apologies to those of you who had to deal with a bunch of dead links on my links page. I miraculously managed to find a work-around to a similar problem before, but I don't think lightning will strike twice.

But in more depressing news, TechTV announced today that they are laying off 130 of their employees, which is about 25% of the staff (TechTV PR statement on C|Net). It's my understanding that this mostly affects the TechLive portion of TechTV, which will be discontinued or cut back drastically. But it also appears that TSS is affected as well. It appears that Scott Herriot has been let go as well. He will be very much missed. It took me a while to tune in to his weird sense of humor, but for some time I have been looking forward to his antics on each show. The House Call segments on TSS will certainly not be the same.

It's time for an escape. I'm gonna go load some Babes In Toyland mp3 tracks and play some classic arcade games at Norbert's Emulators. I found this site recently through Fark.com. The games will work better if you go to www.java.sun.com and install their Java runtime application rather than using the one embedded in MSIE.

Posted by Christy on November 16, 2001 10:19 PM

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