I don't usually post things on this site in more than one place, but the effort it took to be able to post this video makes me want to get the most mileage I can out of it.

I have been trying to post it on YouTube for the better part of two years, and it was finally this week that I got it into a length and a format that would work. Even then, I had to try three times to upload it before I stopped getting error messages.

It's sort of an ego thing. Folks who know me know that I wrote a newspaper column for five years from 1996-2001, and that they were the years I enjoyed most in my 29-year career in the newspaper business. In the fourth year of my tenure, a local television station in the Inland Empire did a profile on me for their news show "Evening Edition."

After it aired, they gave me a DVD of the entire half-hour show on Riverside-based KVCR.

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZkiyK3Vkj0