Excitement. Excitement. Letzter Tag im Büro. Konferenz und Urlaub klingen zwar zunächst super toll - ein etwas negativer Beigeschmack bleibt aber: ich muss hier das geilste Webseitenprojekt zurücklassen, an dem ich bisher hier werkeln durfte und auch gern fertigstellen würde :(
Nun…
okay, am Wochenende gehts also zur ZendCon nach San Jose, California. Als Neuling auf der Konferenz bin ich mal sehr gespannt, ob diese hält was sie verspricht: 4 Tage intensive Sessions rund um PHP und Sicherheit, Wartbarkeit von Code, Geschwindigkeit, etc. etc. (die Liste der geplanten Sessions liest sich auf jeden Fall sehr vielversprechend). Mal sehen ob ich dazu komme ein bißchen von dort zu berichten und ein paar Sessions zusammenzufassen oder obs nur für 140 Zeichen gezwitscher reicht. Ein paar interessante Einführungen zur ZendCon ach dem Motto “so, you decided to attend ZendCon…” gibts im Netz, die werd ich mir mal noch zu Gemüte führen.
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Freitag, 16. Oktober 2009Another voice silenced
Donnerstag, 5. März 2009“Is the CBS run by morons?” you might ask… Well in fact, in late february they fired everybody at 97.1 Free FM and replaced the station with a computer playing the same top 20 chart hits over and over. Not even worth to mention the new stations name here.
97.1 Free FM was one of the few talk radio stations in southern California available on terrestrial radio. Funny, entertaining and provocative and even with an educational claim as well. Adam Corolla and the professor Tom Leykis (as he calls himself), just to name the two most famous guys they had. The second one has been doing successful talk radio for over 12 years.
I really don’t get it - the show has actually been really really popular with listeners. People were calling from all over the US - even from states where they didn’t air the show, people were following the live-stream of the show…
So who’s going to make fun of all the celebrities now? And who’s going to teach like the Professor Tom Leykis did?
There have been rumors about his contract (or he told that on air?), which guarantees him some $400.000 in the next years, even though the station was shut down and he won’t work another day. So maybe that is the reason why CBS had to quit his contract today rather than tomorrow.
So for now I stay a long time listener that never got to call in, so I’ll just be missing the show, hopefully he’s back on air soon.
May the responsible persons at CBS corporation listen to their new top 40 station until their ears bleed… :D
(which is like 10 minutes).
Kraftwerk live
Mittwoch, 26. November 2008‘Man machine’ by Kraftwerk live at Coachella/Palm Springs. This is one of the better videos of their set at YouTube.