After much aggravation (and some yelling at my hosting company) the site is finally working again. I had to revert to a backup that was a few days old, so some comments and user registrations were lost. Sorry.
I’m leaving this morning to attend the NAB show in Las Vegas, but I’ll be writing more soon.

Have a great trip Mike – glad to see the site’s back!
Regards,
Nik
Have fun, and keep up you blog it is very interesting to read
Hey Mike. I LOVE the old TV test pattern
In case any video editors out there want to use it, I Googled up some higher res ones:
This one is large and cleaned up — although it has some anachronistic grayscale instead of the original chucks of grey,
http://www.akdart.com/rca-i.gif
Then, there’s this one:
http://farm.tucows.com/2005/02/please_stand_by.jpg
Yes, isn’t it great. All I need now is clips of the star-spangled banner that they played before sign-off and the High Flight poem sign-off.