Archive for 2003

Just read about this on Slashdot:

According to Reuters, the FCC today decided to greatly curtail the laws that force incumbent phone companies to share their lines with their competition at cost.

This worries me because I really like my Earthlink DSL!  Getting it installed was a huge pain in the ass though.  If what I went through with Covad is the norm, then they’re getting what they deserve.  It was one of the worst customer-service experiences I’ve ever had with any company I can think of.

Just so’s you know, if you don’t leave at least some kind of fake name when you post a comment, I’m taking it upon myself to give you a name.  I’ll make it up and it might not be very flattering!  So that’s your incentive to come up with something more interesting (or real) on your own.

I’ve been trying to work on new songs practically every day, but can’t finish anything.  I REALLY need to get my freakin’ songbook back; I’m afraid I’ll never get anything done without it.  I accidentally left it with a friend of mine back around 9-11 and he hasn’t sent it back to me.  Of course I told him how important it is to me, and that I can’t really function as a songwriter without it.  He keeps saying he’ll send it but he never does.  Well, I’m seeing him this weekend for sure, and you can bet I won’t leave without that thing.  It serves me right, too.  This is karma payback for all the friends that I myself have blown off in various ways over the years.  I would love to blame my friend for all my musical constipation but I know that’s just a cop-out.  What’s really to blame, I dunno.  Missing my songbook sure isn’t HELPING though.

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…is now posted. Last week’s Mystery Song was "Let Me Play With It" by a wonderful kooky old band called Hartman’s Heartbreakers.  I can’t decide whether they’re jazz or western swing, or if I’m lookin’ at the birth of rockabilly…!?

There’s a prayer service on TV right now, for the victims of last night’s disaster.  It’s really hard to watch.  I hate to point fingers at a time like this, but why the hell, in this day and age, are people still being allowed into firetrap situations like this?!?  Stupid, pointless, useless loss of life that could have been saved by just a few inspectors’ visits.  I guess so, anyway.  Maybe it was just one of those freak accidents but I kinda doubt it.

Just re-upgraded my Movable Type install.  There were some security issues and bugs etc., but it’s fixed now.  I still have to check out the template fixes they’ve posted… maybe that’ll cure the viewing problems that some IE users have had with this site.  (IE doesn’t comply with CSS standards as well as most other browsers, so half the time my 2-column layout gets smooshed into one.)

I did a photo shoot thing yesterday with a bunch of boys from other bands on Drag City.  It was for an artsy British mag that I’d never seen before.  The photographer was this gal Kat that I already knew, so it didn’t feel too weird.  She was taking pictures and then quickly porting them into her laptop so we could look at ‘em.  The first one she took of me, I made her throw away because my lips were so fucking torn up and chapped!  I went and put more lipstick on to cover it up and had her re-do it.  Vanity!!  I’m serious though, my lips are bad news.  Marcy got to them… she not only bit me on my lip (the lower one) but also pierced me on the lip-corner with her little razor claws.  How do you stop a kitten from biting you?  You’re expecting a kiss and then… OUCH!!!!

Word’s spreading around the blogosphere that Pyra, the company that owns Blogger, has just been bought by Google.  That’s pretty huge.  I was on Blogger for awhile if you remember, and John Whitney’s on there now too.  It’s just so weird to realize how much the phenomenon has exploded since I first heard that word not so long ago.  When I started putting my journal on the ‘net in 1998 or whenever, a lot of people were shocked and didn’t understand why you’d want to publish such a thing.  Now everybody and his dog has a weblog.  I’m just glad more people understand about it now.  It can be a journal but it can also be a conversation, or a place for announcements, or for posting pictures, voicing political opinions…!!  Or really anything you want it to be.

This site is going black today so I may join hundreds of other websites, and millions of people around the world in a day of protest against Bush’s plans to go to war with Iraq.

WAR SUCKS!!!

I DON’T WANT NO WAR!!

I found this strange little announcement buried in the changelog for MT 2.6:

Changed all visible instances of blog to weblog in the system and in the documentation.

WTF?! I was never a huge fan of that word, but it’s weird because the two people who helped to propagate it more than almost anyone else, have now given it the cold shoulder. I wouldn’t want to be that word right now, poor thing.

Movable Type just this minute released an upgrade.  My cup runneth over!!  I hope this doesn’t break anything, or take too long.

Try this, it’s freaky!!  If you curious, Dave Winer gives away the explanation on why it works.

Apple just released the 10.2.4 update to OS X, I’m downloading it now.  I get so excited whenever something gets updated.  That is, until I realize my update wishes have not been addressed, as was the case with the Safari update the other day.  Still no tabbed windows, no password management, no bookmark subscriptions, so no Safari for me.  I was always a city girl anyhow.  ;-)

I had a good long talk on the phone with Rian Murphy just now.  It was good to catch up with him — I kept not replying to his e-mails to the point where he had to say… "Edith are you ever planning on replying to me?" I am so bad with my e-mail, it’s like a phobia.  I’m better than I was a few weeks ago; I’ve answered at least a couple every day, but that’s not enough considering how much I get.

Wow, a brand new domain just for Movable Type plugins!  I don’t even have time to explore it right now but I’m bookmarking it for later.