Download My Love

Someone suggested that with his new look, Marty should join a boy band. As some of you remember, we created a boy band for the old Call for Help (I'm calling it Call for Help Classic). We aired their video once and managment informed us it was never to air again. Maybe if you listen to the MP3 of the song you'll understand why! Speaking of one shot appearances, Monday's show aired only once. In a weird combination of errors, neither the master nor the backup tape of the show was mode. So we had nothing to re-air. We decided that the Pentium IV 1.7 Ghz benchmarks were important enough that we repeated the segment last night. Bottom line: with current software the 1.7 is no faster than the 1.4 Ghz P4 and the current AMD Athlon 1.3 smokes 'em both. That may change when P4 optimized software comes out, but we don't recommend a P4 at this time. Especially since it requires the dead-end RAMBUS memory. When P4s work with standard DDR-RAM and P4 optimized software starts appearing, then it might be a good choice. But that's at least six months off.

Take My Daughter... please

It's Take Your Daughter To Work day and Abby and her best friend, Bianca, have joined me today. You'll see glimpses of them on both TechLive and The Screen Savers. Maybe more if I can sneak them in. Incidentally, we've cut way back on the financial news during my 90 minutes on TechLive. I'm really liking it much better. Much more time for tech info. What do you think?

TechTV press

Interesting article about TechTV on TelecomClick today. The "cable insider" sounds like he's a little bitter, to me, but it's otherwise fairly accurate. Well except for the part about Paul Allen sending e-mail to the show hosts daily. He's never sent even one e-mail to me. But, Paul, if you're reading this, it's leo@leoville.com.

Pardeee!

The TechTV third anniversary party was last night at a nightclub in San Francisco. Actually it was just a couple of blocks north of PacBell Park so parking was a little tough. I found a spot relatively nearby, though, which was good because I didn't stay too long. I've been working for the company longer than anyone else there - seven years in July. The next most senior employees are folks hired for our old MSNBC show, The Site (including Kate who was in IT at The Site). That's only a handful of people who have been around more than five years. Now there are over 500 employees, most of them hired in the past year. I hardly knew anyone. It was very weird! The music was too loud and it was hard to talk and I'm an old fuddy-duddy so I left after an hour or so. I wasn't exactly in the mood to talk with any management types, anyway. I might have said something I'd regret. (When have I ever done that? ;-) Now if there had been dancing that might have been a different story. In any event, I have no gossip. Anything truly tawdry happened long after I drove off into the night. In years past these parties got quite wild - and I admit to having some hand in that. I guess we're all getting a little more staid as we get to be a real corporation. Or maybe everyone's just too tired! I have a feeling we'll have a little more fun in Austin, though. Nearly the entire Screen Savers crew is coming. And we have Saturday evening off. Heee yaw!