That Howie is such a kidder

By adamg on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 8:58am

As Dan Kennedy notes, Howie Carr's column on Jim Marzilli today is your basic called-in faux-outrage piece about a pol in trouble. But read down to the last two sentences - man, Howie loves working at 'RKO.

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I've read worse Carr columns

By anon
Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:58am

When I tried to click the link to the column, I got this

Error: Host 'falcon.bostonherald.com' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' (Err No: 1129) :: SQL:

which doesn't quite have the aux-outrage you led me to believe it would have, but it makes about as much sense as your average Carr column.

Looks like the Herald needs to buy more hamsters

By adamg
Fri, 06/06/2008 - 10:00am

You actually get that if you just go to www.bostonherald.com - those poor critters must've worn themselves out generating electricity for their servers.

Actually, and sadly, that error message is way too familiar to me. At work, we were getting similar messages as our community platform got more and more popular. Basically, the poor database would overload and just hang. The answer? Build a database cluster and buy better servers. Well, that, and optimize the code to reduce the number of database connections.

Hyphen not wanted

By Ron Newman
Fri, 06/06/2008 - 10:06am

If I go to www.boston-herald.com , with the hyphen, I don't get that. I get a page that bascially says "I bought this domain but I haven't a clue what I want to do with it now."

Domain squatting is such an ugly business

By adamg
Fri, 06/06/2008 - 10:08am

Because there's not much he could do with it unless he wants to get sued by the Herald. And they'd win.

And I've taken out the hyphen. ...

Fresh hamsters

By adamg
Fri, 06/06/2008 - 10:09am

Site is back up.

Outsourcing?

By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 06/06/2008 - 10:29am

Perhaps there was a shift change in Mumbai.

I seriously wonder if there is a computer somewhere in India with a mad-lib-like template and a library of data updated after each call in show. Low pay, high skill technicians upload the latest topic-specific blather, hit the enter key, and VIOLA! A new Howie Carr column emerges for export to the next Herald installment.

For those who can't get to

By Dave
Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:50am

For those who can't get to the article, it ends with:

"Or he could ask the eternal question all disgraced, talentless pols eventually pose:

Is WRKO hiring?"

I read someplace that he sometimes wears a 96.9 button on his shirt while doing his radio show on WRKO.