It’s off! Colbert’s cast is gone from his formerly broken wrist. The eBay auction for the cast is at this link. And now that the cast is off, he’s going to take two weeks off.
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Author: DOuG pRATt
The Branson-Colbert Water Fight
Here it is. The now-infamous water fight that Sir Richard Branson started with Stephen Colbert. Spontaneous? All in good fun? You be the judge! I’ll let you find the complete interview video on Comedy Central.
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Pet Says The “F” Word
Here is a brief video interview with Petula Clark, who explains her presence at the 1969 John and Yoko Bed-In.
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Pratt Porch Project – Days 7, 8, 9
I’ll cheat and combine days. A couple of them were half-days with work that wouldn’t be obvious. Concrete footings for additional support were set, and now the beam and posts have been added, but I won’t bore you with that. The windows are in, and it’s looking a lot more like a room now.
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Back In A Flash
This announcement from Adobe about Flash has implications for this blog. Very good ones! Video quality will go way up, and I should be able to save videos directly to a Flash-ready format, instead of having to go through a two-step process of saving as an AVI and converting to FLV. You can count on me jumping on this right away!
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
One thing that makes some people cynical — not me, of course, but “some people” — is a failed CEO getting nearly $50 million to go away, on top of a $5m severance package. Case in point: Kevin Rollins at DELL Computer Corporation.