The Professor (temporarily) Broke the Blog

Just a quick word of explanation for any folks out there who noticed blog posts disappearing and then reappearing during the past hour or so.

I did it.

I inadvertently warped the blog’s brain by trying to move the blog’s clock to Pacific Time from its native “Coordinated Universal Time.” CUT was timestamping blog posts 8 hours later than reality. In my attempt to fix that, I broke the blog. Posts refused to publish because they were suddenly on a different date than the blog.

But enough with the technical talk. The blog is fixed (I put the time stamp back to CUT), and we had to republish a few posts to get them back in the right order.

Now on with the show!

Taking a minute to say thanks

I would like to take this minute or two to say a huge thank you to all the professors here at UNLV that made this possible for the students. From setting up a debate blog to helping us get some press passes, all the professors’ hard work has not gone unnoticed. On behalf of all the students involved in covering the debate, thank you.

An especially enthusiastic thank you to Charlotte-Anne Lucas, who introduced us to and has helped us perfect the art of blogging. Happy birthday Charlotte-Anne!

Another special thank you to Randy Corke, president and CMO of such an awesome and innovative program called Utterz.

Real-time quotes

Someone named Maria Piazzola sent me the transcript of what has been
said so far.

“We’re going to give Senator Edwards a chance to respond. I want
Senator Biden to weigh in.

BIDEN: Oh no, no, no, no.

(LAUGHTER)

BLITZER: Senator Biden, I want you to weigh in.

(LAUGHTER)

BIDEN: Don’t do it, no! Don’t make me speak!

BLITZER: I want you to. Go ahead.

(APPLAUSE)”

…sent right to my E-Mail. If only it was that easy all the time to
get a good quote.