5/15/2008 by Ron & Anna Winship
Funny how things happen in life….sometimes they happen by accident and sometimes they happen by chance and sometimes on purpose. In any event, the new format for our OC Juice is pretty interesting….NOT good yet…but interesting. The story is that we love better technology. Not just new…but better!
Henry Samueli and his buddy Henry Nicolas are Orange County heroes. They give cash to the right organizations and charities. They are considered the richest people around. Today Samueli is under an SEC Federal lawsuit….all about fraudulent stock option transactions. Paying off his closest buddies with billions. Backdating the Options so as maximize the profits …isn’t exactly Hoyle….but that rarely bothers those that consider themselves above the law.
But who are we to be assumptive and accusatory. If he did wrong…he needs to fix it…doesn’t he? What is thing about Broadcom? Samueli stepped down as CEO because of the pending SEC lawsuit. Will he do time in one of America’s great prisons?
Oh, who is to know. His pal Nicolas has been busy trying to do “dogooder work” and giving $10 million dollars to Santa Ana after school programs. Yep, Nicolas is the same guy that had the Playboy cave with prostitutes from the Eastern Block and drugs from around the world. Hey, but just another rich guy with personality problems….hardly anything for the “not so rich” to worry their pretty heads about!
All in all, the fun here in “The OC” is getting pretty funky. Supervisor John Moorlach….tried an end run on the Sheriff interviews with the Board of Supervisors. He wanted June 3rd …as the date to interview all the candidates! Well, he had a minor uprising and his fellows on the board bolted with an array of reasons for not having these interviews (which were to be broadcast) on an Election Day!
OK…back to new stuff and blogging and how we do stuff. It kind of goes like this..if it is easier…if it is better….and if it keeps it’s integrity….then we will be for it. Since all of what we have written since this changeover happened has suddenly evaporated from the new blog format….we will not be logging in on that format. We will continue to write on this format and if our words get out…then
great. If not…no biggie!
I did a terrible job. The site looks awful. I’m so, so sorry. May I still have dessert Mommy and Daddy?
SMS
*Sarah,
No, no, no….it just takes a longer learning
curve. No one likes change..because they have
to learn something new. After you make 12 mistakes posting a blog entry and then come back
the next day and it’s gone…it gets a little
frustrating…to say the least.
You did a great job…..but you probably now should send us all to a WordPress training class.
A team get-together maybe? There are fewer of us now so it shouldn’t be so hard. If you guys can come to Anaheim I have city-wide wifi. 🙂 Who’s buying??
SMS
While you kids squabble, let me add my 2 cents here… I think the “new” Orange Juice site is going to work. It’s going to take some time, but it’s more readable now. The text jumps off the page. I’m sure it’s an adjustment for posters who, like me over on my site, tend to get way, way too wordy. The new format may help them master brevity – good luck with that! However, I must say that viewing the new site is a little like sitting with my head inside a jack-o-lantern – a whole lot of orange and a little white. Keep up the good work.
Pot Stirrer:
Why thank you. Now all I have to do is find a way to import our old database that actually works and I’ll be golden!
SMS
SMS
I’ll think the OC blog should consider any color other than Orange.
It just seems to be to much.
Geez! I just checked your poll! So far, 70% of those responding think the new site is Fair to Poor! Yikes! That will teach you not to ask! What do they know, anyhow? As far as “Jose” is concerned… the Orange Juice Blog should be, ta ta!, ORANGE! Hang in, there…
That’s OK. In the test poll there were 31 votes. 20 of them were for ‘WTF? Yuck’ or ‘I Hate You Sarah Michelle’ (a takeoff on the Sarah Marshall movie).
So yeah, the site sucks.
SMS
No one likes change
I just realized you wrote this. Are you kidding? I for one, love change. How can you speak for everyone? In fact, after 5 years on the same platform, you have to admit, it was time.
SMS
C’mon, given the “I hate you Sarah Michele” option who could resist voting that? How else do you show support for an idea than by voting that way? So I supported the creativity of having an “I hate you Sarah Michele” option by voting for it. For the record I do not hate Sarah Michele.
I just vote that way.
grace –
I guess you got the point then. Bravo! It’s OK, I think it’s Fiala anyway. He likes to change his IP a lot.
SMS
Well, this is my first foray into the new site, and frankly your poll hasn’t the proper way to rate it in my mind. So I’ll have to voice my own opinion in a more words than a simple click.
Sorry, I know you have worked hard on it and spent countless hours, but it sucks. Not a little, like the old Hoover or Kenmore canister, but more like a real, genuine, industrial, Kirby. It may load faster, (well duh, there’s less to load) but you have to read the rest on the flip, frankly like ALL THE REST of the blogs, and I for one, hate it. (Change?)
Yes there’s too much Orange, and not enough meaty goodness.
It may actually do some good for you left of center writers, it may keep me from spending more time around here, and commenting less. Since the OJ has gone left of center, there are only a few, IMHO worth reading anyway and less worth commenting on.
BTW I am neither R nor D for those newbie’s who don’t really know me, I can’t stand the “party lines” from either side. Most are simply BS, fostering a leveraged position for themselves and screwing taxpayers in the process.