The Hutch

Category: Site News

  • Podcasts a’comin’!

    I’m taking some Lynda.com training to become more proficient with my editing software. I’ll have at least one podcast done by the end of this weekend. Here’s something hilarious for you until then:

  • I’ve upgraded our WordPress

    Hopefully, this will help contributors to our site to post videos. All you have to do is paste in the URL of the video and WordPress embeds it. https://videopress.com/v/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.11

  • Monitor Duty is alive and well

    Sorry to disappear, everyone. We got a new puppy in October, so we’ve been crazily preoccupied with training and classes, and sometimes days would go by where I’d not even turn on my computer! The new puppy is named Chewbacca, by the way. Chewie for short, which is appropriate. In addition to that, my wife…

  • Podcast coming!

    I’m leaving to pick up my wife while this huge MP3 is being produced.  When I get back, this will go live. Finally!

  • Okay, everyone. Fine!

    I’m on Facebook, too. So now I’m on Twitter and MySpace and ComicSpace and Facebook and LinkedIn, and none of them are going to be maintained well enough because I’m trying to keep this blog going and I’m not even doing THAT very well!

  • Could it be?

    All this struggling with the poor quality of my podcast recordings… could it really be that my Microsoft LifeChat LX-2000 microphone headset just really sucks? Tonight, I plugged in a headset that my team uses at work, and it sounds nice. Well, dang. I feel like a doofus. Podcast, coming up! And the next one…

  • How to post YouTube videos in a WordPress blog

    Update: Some say that only Admins can post…which makes no sense at all.  I’m checking into that. I was going to make this a private page just for my fellow Monitor Duty authors, but then I realized that there may be many non-MonitorDuty users who could be having the same problem and this might come…

  • In other news of a technical nature…

    I finally figured out why few of the Monitor Duty authors were posting.  They’ve almost all been locked out ever since I installed Sabre in order to fight the spam registrations.  I fixed that tonight.  Any and all registered users have now been okayed to author posts or comment. My apologies to any and all…

  • Hulk smash technical problems! Rar!

    Even before the release of our first podcast, I ran into technical problems with my microphone.  I simply could not get my front microphone plug to work.  That’s why I had to end that installment with a clip from the old Batman show.  Parts 2 and 3 have languished while I’ve tried to resolve this…

  • The Birthday haul (a/k/a “Game reviews to come”)

    I had a lovely little birthday party with my wife, Melinda, and niece, Jenny.  They bought a glittery banner and I realized I’ve never had a banner for my birthday party before.  They also restarted a long-abandoned tradition of lighting a candle on the cake for every year I’ve been alive, and there’s a reason…