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I’m moderately indignant about a local neo-conning counter-culture account of something that serving Governor Christine Gregoire is accused of saying in an interview, and I’m on a fact-checking rampage.  The 2005-05-02 KING5.com Top Stories page does not support the claim at all—no surprise considering the scurrilous quality of the allegation—but I can’t get the video clip to play.  All I get is the toothpaste commercial, not an interview of the governor by Meg Coyle of NorthWest Cable News.  So if you get it to play the interview, would you leave me a comment that let’s me know if

• The interviewer was strange enough to ask Governor Gregoire whether she believed in democracy.
• Whether the Govern answered that question or anything else remotely connected with an expression of belief in democracy or not.

Meanwhile, being the geek geezer that I am, I set out to let the TV station know that I am having a problem with their web-site material.  Naturally, the only contact mechanism provided on the site seems to be a web-based form.  So I provide a nice little bug report with URLs and everything, and click the Submit button:

500 Servlet Exception

500 Servlet Exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.belo.customerservice.servlet.action.CommitTicketAction.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:484)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:274)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:525)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:165)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:103)
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletFilterChain.doFilter(ServletFilterChain.java:113)
at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:177)
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.service(ServletInvocation.java:221)
at com.caucho.server.hmux.HmuxRequest.handleRequest(HmuxRequest.java:392)
at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnection.java:331)
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.runTasks(ThreadPool.java:464)
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:408)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

Resin-3.0.8 (built Tue, 08 Jun 2004 02:25:40 PDT)

No that’s an abstraction leak you have to love.  I guess the support folk were too busily sitting around gloating how much Microsoft sucks that they didn’t think about failure modes and what happens when friendly folk (a.k.a geek geezers {or is it geezer geeks, I wonder}) want to let them know there’s a problem.  No, I’m not so friendly that I’m going to debug their server for them.  And if I did, how would I let them know? 

I looked for an e-mail address and came up empty handed.  This is what I call making the friendlies work too hard, and I’m done with it.  I really just want to know what the interview conversation was.  Sheesh.  Please let me know if you find out how to listen to the feed.

posted by orcmid at 5/3/2005 04:29:02 PM