Revenge of the Awards Show

The NASCAR Awards show was actually not as lame as I expected.  It was still good for some laughs though.

If you joined us for the Live Blog tonight, I thank you and apologize to you.  We had technical difficulties (almost felt like a live radio show) at about the 10:45 pm mark and eventually had to shut the Live Blog down.  It was fun while it lasted and the folks at Cover It Live were great to work with.  I'm pretty sure that the problem was on my end and we are looking forward to live blogging again soon.

Again, thanks to everybody.

UPDATE: Cover It Live got to the bottom of our problem and it was, not surprisingly, caused on our end. These guys are fantastic to work with - especially for someone as digitally challenged as me. Their software is so easy to use that I just got a little lazy naming an image file. Here's Keith from CIL's explanation to me:

The problem was the title of one of the images you stored in your media library had a “ in the title.  The software normally catches those kinds of unacceptable characters and doesn’t let you save them.  Except on that one darn line I guess we missed our quality assurance test.  The “ believe it or not, made the software freak out and stop talking to the database (that’s why with banks they don’t let you use funny characters in your username).

 

Anyway, it’s fixed.  First time that’s ever happened.  Sorry it was on your shift.  Appreciate your support to us with your readers.  We’re putting in the fix in the morning so it doesn’t happen to anyone else.

Stay tuned.  I just wish that I could come up with a name for our live blogs - maybe OPR 3000.  Nah.

Comments

[John]

It was fun while it lasted. Thanks for doing it.

[RevJim]

Good job while it lasted. As I said, I loved Mystey Science Theatre 3000, and the commentary was a lot like that.
Jeff Gordon is letting his personality show. What's this world coming to? At least it will take some pressure off of Tony Stewart.
The plugs were all great, staying in step with all the NASCAR race broadcasts, I see.
I had to watch the show on tape delay, as we don't get ESPN Classic here, but, I swear I synched reading the live blog replay with the real time on the show, even though I was tempted to read ahead. It was more fun pretending I was live.
Keep up the great work.

[RevJim]

Oh, I forgot one thing. The voiceover? That was that Garmin navigation thingy.

[Charlie]

John, Jim - thanks for the comments. It was fun for me as well. I am disappointed because I had alot of content left - including links to many NASCAR blogs - still to use. It was pretty busy running the thing but it did make the show go by fast.

So, the Garmin Navigation girl huh? That didn't register with me. They might have been a little too subtle for their own good. Hard to imagine anything with NASCAR being subtle though.

[Steve]

Maybe I won't get a Garmin GPS if thats the voice I'd have to listen to. The live commentary did, indeed, make the show more interesting and move along faster. Once the tech problem popped up, the show started to suck like usual. Our only entertainment here was betting on the over/under on how many times baby Gordon was mentioned during the Gordo segment. The over/under was 6. The overs won.

Great job Charlie, on a good idea.