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For many years I have proudly helped with maintaining HazzardNet.com, in my humble opinion one of the best Dukes of Hazzard websites out there. As such, given the amount of time and work I’ve contributed to the site, I tend to view other websites dedicated to American pop culture with a critically biased eye. 

One such site is the official estate sanctioned website of Glenn Miller, (yes, another Miller related topic!). Overall it’s a nice site, with several photos, biographical information, tidbits, trivia and links to merchandise (mostly CD’s). Kinda like HNet, only without the sass. Khee!

For several months earlier this year the site came up as being “Under Renovation”. Great! I thought, must be a big update right? Maybe a new fresh look to the site, some new long lost images or something, maybe an announcement of some release of material long collecting dust in a vault somewhere? Nope. I noticed a few weeks ago the site is back up and looks the same as it did before, with the same last news posting dating back to 2004.

But more recently I was browsing through a section of the site where you can download desktop wallpapers and screensavers for your computer and such. The designs are eh…okay, but not really something that put me in the mood to want to download them and use them on my desktop. The colorings match that of the site (minty green) and there’s just a few different versions to chose from. I had looked at these once before but didn’t really pay too much attention to them at the time because, like I said, they just didn’t strike me.

This time, however, I noticed something. One of the desktop wallpapers is not even a picture of Glenn. The gentleman pictured, looks kinda like Glenn, is holding a trombone but despite the name next to him, it is NOT Glenn Miller….

Hell no, that’s Tommy Dorsey! HUH?! Okay, maybe they kinda sorta look similar. After all, here’s Miller…

So I suppose anybody could make a mistake but…as the Official website of GM, this is a major faux paux. Especially considering Miller worked for Tommy Dorsey (and his brother Jimmy Dorsey) at one point before starting his own band. I imagine Miller would not have been impressed with this “oops.” 

This would be like us at HNet, even though we’re not an official site, using a picture of David Soul instead of John Schneider.

The mistake could maybe be understandable but nonetheless unacceptable. Obviously, we at HNet hold ourselves to a higher standard.

Plus we know damn well enough the difference between David Soul and John Schneider! LOL.

But shame on the people maintaining the GM site for not knowing the difference between Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. I’d contact them to express my displeasure but their feedback, contact and business inquiry pages all come up blank. Well. That’s helpful. Ironically this is the only thing about the site that seems to have changed with this “renovation.” Thus, I’m forced to complain here in my blog.

And, since I was sooooo impressed with the desktop wallpapers to begin with, I created a couple of my own….

Now that’s more like it! =)