Friday, May 09, 2003

HATS OFF

At the end of last year, I switched jobs. Sadly, the magazine I used to edit is now no more.

I was actually quite proud of TechNews, mainly because of the way we attempted to cover abstruse technologies in an entertaining, engaging way -- and you haven't gotten abstruse until you start talking about folder pin-post bushings on printing presses. Nor have you gotten truly retentive as an editor until you determine that the hyphen in the above sentence goes between "pin" and "post." We tried to make this stuff fun, and had fun in the process.

A moment of silence, please, for the only publication that allowed its editor to reminisce at length about his fading glory days of watching ink trucks and making fun of local TV newscasts.

Come to think of it, maybe there's a reason it went under.