July 18, 2008
I'm rooting for Rawls.
I don't know Cy Rawls personally, but it seems that we do know a lot of the same folks. And like most everyone who has ever been to a rock show in the Triangle, I'm hoping he's going to be okay.
Mr. Rawls is at Duke this week being treated for a brain tumor. The same folks who worked on that Senator from up North are helping out Cy Rawls.
Anyway, if you want to know everything that's happening, including fundraising efforts, please check out cyrawls.blogspot.com.
I just wanted to say that I hope he's going to pull through and spread the word even further.
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July 17, 2008
ZOMFG!!!!!!!
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July 16, 2008
WKNC dj "discovers" local music
Steve Salevan provides a home for local music on the airwaves
Ross Grady (of WXDU) gets a one-line mention. WXYC's decades-long devotion to local music is skipped entirely.
Ross Grady? His local music show started at WKNC. Back when they were nothing but metal.
Whatever. At least they finally woke up and smelt the music scene. They get a cookie.
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wunderground.com DNS problems today
anyone who relies on wunderground.com for weather data (and that is, seemingly, everybody) is scratching their heads today, wondering what the hell happened to the site. One minute pages come up blank; the next they kind of load, but with images broken. Google blog search (thanks D for that pointer) shows people who can and cannot get to the mobile version, the RSS feeds, etc.
i was able to get through to their home page long enough to submit a problem ticket, and they responded within minutes:
-----Original Message----- From: Weather Underground, Inc [mailto:kayako@wunderground.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:35 AM To: Lisa Linn Subject: [#OWX-]: What's happening to weather underground? Hello, Weather Underground is currently experiencing a problem with name resolution (DNS) to the site. Roughly half of site visitors are taken to a "Site Under Construction" or an error page when they try wunderground.com. We are working feverishly to solve this problem. In the meantime, you can visit www.weatherunderground.com which still works. Sincerely, Weather Underground Staff Thank you for your support! Weather Underground, Inc http://www.wunderground.com/ Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: OWX- Category: General
So, if you were wondering, that's the story. Well, part of the story. I'm sure the cause of the DNS problems will eventually be revealed but at least the site hasn't been yoinked with no warning.
ETA:
a co-worker dug this out of the blog search:
This was posted at 8:06 pm last night: Straight from John Celenza at WeatherUnderground:
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Man I wish we had updates on time.
Basically the folks who control our domain registration made a MAJOR
mistake today and broke DNS resolution of our site by pointing DNS
lookups to the wrong name service.We'll be up definitely after the 45 hour timeout period when root name
servers will again attempt to lookup and store Wunderground.com.
However, we are working with our registrar to find a MUCH faster
solution.
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July 14, 2008
lisa and moses discuss battle rabbit
l: a rabbit feast. i bet you could go for that. YEAH.
m: tell them not to put any onion in it because that will make me more anemic.
m: actually, they don't even have to cook it.
m: actually, it doesn't even really have to be dead.
l: just kind of stunned? so it's easy?
m: yeah. like that.
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July 13, 2008
Let's discuss the Zombie Apocalypse.
Post-apocalypse without the militias: The Outquisition (via b2)
"...if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed... Helping rural landowners apply climate foresight and farm biodiversity... Hacking together DIY windmills and ad hoc smart grids, communication systems, water treatment systems.."
I find this unbelievably patronizing. There are folks in rural areas already creating DIY windmills and the like. They're the ones who are going to save your hipster ass when the Zombie Apocalypse comes. Not the other way around, dumbasses.
Don't believe me? I'll loan you the copy of "Home Power" magazine where my uncle is profiled. He's off the grid because there are no utilities where he lives, and he's hacked together a combination of bought and salvaged components to power his house. Trust me-- he "knows tools and innovation".
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July 12, 2008
I'll see your OMG! and raise you a ZOMG!
OMG! Gawker Q&A with Joss Whedon!
Oh, and either Marti Noxon has changed her name to Marni Nixon or Gawker needs a fact checker/more skillful transcriber. See, her name is easy to remember if you're a real Buffy fan, because you HATE HER.
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