June 2017
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Phil Collins Quickly Recovering
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For those unaware, Phil Collins (“Against All Odds (Take A Look at Me Now),” “Sussudio,” “Another Day in Paradise”) launched his “Not Dead Yet Tour” (named after his autobiography) on June 2nd in England. If you missed that, you may have also missed that on June 7th he fell in his hotel room after getting…
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Political Assassination Attempts
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Yesterday’s shooting of congressmen practicing baseball got me to thinking about attacks on politicians in the 1980s. For most of us, if there’s an attack on a politician in the 80s that leaps to mind, it’s likely the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan on March 30th, 1981. Reagan was shot in the left lung…
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Why Do We Need A Video Card?
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I told you yesterday that we need a video card to begin streaming BlackLight Radio again. A reasonable question would be, “why do you need a video card to stream radio?” YouTube does not provide us a way to stream only audio to them; if we’re going to stream to YouTube, we’re going to have…
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The Forty Dollar Question
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I mentioned yesterday that there was an option for BlackLight Radio to begin streaming again, though YouTube. Today, I thought I would detail what that would look like, and what we need. The reason we don’t stream audio anymore is because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the related laws that were later passed, require…
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We’re back! (Well, the website is.)
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For those of you who have been following us on Facebook, you already knew we were changing web hosts, but if you hadn’t heard, let me explain what has happened: For the past 15 years, we have been extremely blessed to have hosting provided by Jerry Rose and Aidan Internet Solutions. The service and hosting…