News Sentinel preparing to launch new look

The conversion is part of a bigger transition being made by the E.W. Scripps Co., which owns the News Sentinel and 13 other newspapers. Scripps is converting all of its papers to Saxotech, and they will be produced at the same time in a "cloud" computing environment.

That means that, unlike in the past, we won't be working on computer servers here in our own building. Instead, our keystrokes will travel through the Internet to a big server farm in northern California, where all the Scripps papers will be on the same database.

Also, the organization of the paper won't change. Sections and features will be specifically where they are today. Sam Venable's column will run on Page A4. Sports will be the C section. The comics will be inside the features sections, and they will have the same rotating titles and subject matter as in the past.

The cloud is secure

Let's hope your server in the cloud is secure. So many aren't. Just think - Scripps gets hacked, and all papers go down. At times distributed computing is stronger eventually.

Silly boy, they are balanced out by Ina and friends. Geez, that sounded a lot like Dionne Warwick's Psychic Friends Network didn't it? On the same bubble most of the time as then.