The NecroKonicon I’ve never met Jon Konrath. But I know his canvas, which is partially my hometown. This, certainly, must be a pinnacle of his life’s work.
Jon’s done something slightly similar previously in his archaeology of UCS project, but that was focused on computers rather than college hijinx.
As someone who has scanned entire runs of zines about cough syrup and posted them, I must say I have an understanding of this.
Local hero Anita Rowland faces some hard news on the health front (this is actually the second bad bit of health news to float by this week; the other, however does not concern a blogger and so I’m shushed on the topic).
Good luck, Anita and family. And good luck to my anonymous friend.
MeNoWriFoNaNoWriMo: B2 proposes an alternative to NaNoWriMo, to which I say, what the heck, I do it anyway, right?
Plus, I’ve always found it a soothing way to employ WiFi.
Let’s choke this chicken, Brother B2! I’m ready to follow you to the land of glory! But is B3 aboard? Perhaps he’ll only be able to participate pseudononymously, perhaps as “Possible Pseudononymous Participant” or as I like to think of it, “PoPsuPa,” or, more likely, P3.
To which I can only say I hope Bill picks up the obvious setup I’ve just given him and runs with it.
Mmm, perhaps the lack of food is affecting my judgement.
I had cause to Google on some of Jason’s lyrics and found some stuff I’d not seen before, maybe it’s new to you as well:
Laying Down by the Tracks, by Sergio Pastor – reflection and narrative on Halloween 2001, one which I found moving and which I think is a more careful and personally emotive piece of writing about that show than my own.
Jason Webley is a track selection review of songs from the show that Pastor describes by an East Coaster who hopefully made it to the NYC shows that Jason put on this summer.
Seattle Weekly‘s preview for that same Halloween, 2001 show.
A Seattle Times piece previewing the November 2002 show (I had spotty luck with the Times, with the link sometimes working and sometimes not. Also, they’ve just added an NYT-style reg-req).
Lukewarm review of Counterpoint at Delusions of Adequacy.
Jay Allen notes a couple of bugs and an overzealous regexp in the default distro of MT-Blacklist.
I hope Mr. Allen takes the time over the next week to set up a board to centralize user-experience, bug reports, and the like.
The install here went smoothy, albeit I had to install Storable.pm (‘sudo CPAN’ and then ‘install storable,’ for those undergoing the same head scratching I was for a moment or two, wondering why ‘install Storable.pm’ was failing).
I was concerned on being able to get in to the blacklist admin UI apparently without logging in, but was mistaken – Blacklist uses your MT login info.
I believe I will still install the captcha-style mod as well, but I haven’t taken the time to disentangle the issues with getting GD to install.
CNET News.com: VeriSign to revive redirect service
VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many .com and .net domains, company representatives said Wednesday.
AND (no coverage on this yet that I’ve seen) I got a notification email from VeriSign announcing the sale of Network Solutions, the registrar part of VeriSign we love to hate, to “a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity.”
(Here’s a Google News search on “verisign to sell network solutions”)
The note describes the buyer as “a provider of equity for middle market corporate acquisitions,” and links to a press release.
So, I guess the venture boys called in their chips?
It seems odd that the sale would be taking place at the same time as the announcement of the intention to reinstate that redirect service. Could it be that the venture money was seeking the redirect service and when the ruckus started, wouldn’t budge?
Hm, maybe not. The San Jose Business Journal notes that Verisign split the old NetSol registrar biz off from the registry proper, and that the registrar is being sold while the registry remains with VeriSign. The registry is the part with the genuine control over the behavior of the TLDs, and therefore the 404-redirect doohickey as well.