Unpredictable. Unfocused. Just like life.

I sat down to watch a little television last night - Two and a Half Men then How I Met Your Mother between 8:00 and 9:00 pm on the local CBS affiliate, WIVB in Buffalo, NY. Unfortunately there was an audio problem. The sound would be on for a second, the off for three seconds. The problem was only occurring on that channel.

As a bit of research, and because nothing else was on, I left the station on to see how long the problem continued. It went on for the entire hour, commercials and all.

So not only was this a pointless hour for viewers, who would likely have switched to another channel.It also meant that advertisers who had paid for spots during those shows got no value for their money.

What amazed me is that during the full hour, either nobody at the station noticed the problem, or they couldn't be bothered to fix it. Shouldn't somebody be watching these things?