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Memo to california:

WTF is wrong with you?

(UPDATE: Look how you treated your sometime pal – he’s heartbroken!)

You mother and I have decided if you’re not going to follow our rules, you can’t live in our house any longer. You go right ahead, see what it’s like to live on the streets, experimenting with anabolic steroids an’ shit – but don’t come back whimpering to me if your kidneys shut down, your sewers stop up, and you suffer a convulsive, massive, complete failure of governance – you’re the state that had universal college education, the sixth largest economy in the world, and now you’ve completely failed the crucial test of Platonic theory regarding democracies.

Of course, your granpa Plato was no democrat!. But I’m quite sure Arnie’s no philosopher king. And do you know what Plato says when democracies take home charismatic opportunists?

He says it’s game over, California. After Arnold, you’ll never elect a serious, committed political leader again, is what he says. But do you know why I’m really upset?

It’s because you set the agenda for my entire country. It means, if history is a guide, the end of democracy in the United States will happen during my lifetime.

Uh, say, Canada, can I have a word with you? Are you busy? My daughter, California…. mumble… mumble…

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Some Girls

nuvo.net / Some Girls rock harder than others, headlines Dale Lawrence at great length in a recent ish of the Indy alternative rag Nuvo.

Some Girls is a one-off project that brings Blake Babies Juliana Hatfield and Freda Love together with Indy bassist Heidi Gluck; Freda is also an old high-school chum of mine.

Although they only offer one tune on their website, i have heard a great deal of the album by listening to Bloomington alt-public station WFHB in iTunes recently, and boy, I really like it.

I’m excited to see the band on Thursday at the Crocodile (despite the Croc’s inability to provide an October gig calendar, prompting eye-rolls from your humble correspondent).

Got that? Thursday night. The Crocodile. Some Girls. Don’t make me repeat myself.

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No Safari timeout

No Safari timeout (posted in April) points to a widget to slap Safari around and cure the stringent 60-second timeout that is inbuilt in the thing.

This comes up because, as increasing numbers of folks are realizing, the default architecture of MT is begining to display an inherent performance limitation as blogs age and the program has to cope with numbers of entries and files in the thousands.

No extra credit will be given for guessing the priority solving this will be assigned chez SixApart.

UPDATE: Okay, so maybe it’ll get discussed. But don’t tell the money boys, kids! It’ll give an existing consumer base one less reason to climb aboard the upgrade if you fix the bug!