Sorry I didn’t post sooner. I was distracted by a couple of things, which I shall likely post about later.
Art and Callie Baker’s son, Charles Darwin Baker, was born at 6:09AM, Friday October 24th, 2003. He was 19.5 inches long, weighed 7lbs 4oz, and apparently scored 9 out of 10 on some baby scoring system I’m not familiar with.
There were no apparent complications, and Callie is recovering well.
Yeah, so, as soon as I got the email saying the site was going to be acting up, I posted about it. Which, of course, the site acting up cancelled out. They were “upgrading” ME again. Stuff always seems to go wonky when they “upgrade” us. Still, perhaps we won’t have another problem until they “upgrade” us again… and/or until I can afford to switch hosts.
Seriously, folks, if you want to see this stuff stop any time soon, help support the site. Donate money via PayPal, buy Cafepress merchandise, buy our new screen-printed shirts, buy my paintings. If you don’t have money, trade a couple hours’ access to your body to strangers, and pretend Modern Evil is your pimp. Or stand on a busy street corner collecting money from strangers, and pretend Modern Evil is your charity. If you don’t like our current designs on merchandise, suggest something else, and we’ll get right on it! We’re here to please you as much as we can. Well, second only to making you suffer and cry.
Modern Evil’s Priorities:
1. Make you suffer and cry
2. Please you as much as possible
3. etc…
Sorry for the trouble today. No posts you made should actually have been lost. I’ve just gone through and retrieved everything that managed to disappear. I’ll do what I can (virtually nothing) to prevent this from happenning in the future, and to give you more notice. Or even just notice that stays on the site for more than a few minutes.
Last night I bought Johnny Cash‘s album, the iTunes Music Store. I’ve wanted it since I knew it existed (a few weeks before he died), but kept putting off even looking to see if it was available. It is.
Of course, since the iTunes Music Store has over 400,000 songs now, there’s a pretty good chance that much music one seeks would be there.
Which is frustrating, because I know I cannot afford all the music I want.
Made extra frustrating, because Apple upgraded their invoice emails since I last bought music from them. Now instead of a plaintext email just saying they charged my card and how much tax and all, it’s a fancy HTML email with links (and album covers) of albums other people who bought what I bought bought. That is, albums which in relation to my purchase, I may be interested in purchasing. And darnit if I don’t want at least one of them.
Silly effective marketing.
Anyone who wants to buy me a big iTunes Gift Certificate is welcome to. I use my regular email address, teel (AT) modernevil (DOT) com, for my iTunes account. Thanks.
Dear Client,
We are moving your website (modernevil.com) onto a different server with a better specification. This will be a seamless process and will take around 24 hours, however, please do not make any changes during the next day or so as they may be lost.
You will receive your account instructions again, but there is no need for you to take any action.
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They’ve been moving ME to a server with a better specification for years, and performance has only been dropping. And as far as not making changes, everyone who posts makes changes. That’s the whole point of the site; that it changes all the time.
Sigh.
If anyone’s posts disappear in the next day or two, this is why.
Sorry.
Buy a T-Shirt or two, and when I have enough profit, I’ll switch hosts.
I’m going to make a separate post about NaNoWriMo now.
I’m going to be participating again this year. I’m tossing around (read: outlining and developing and thinking about and comparing and contrasting and everything that isn’t writing them, but which helps before writing them) a couple of good ideas for novels right now. I’d like to write both of them out eventually, and I may try to write a first-draft of one of them in November. Or, come 711.0 A.C. I may spontaneously decide to write something new, another improv novel. Forlorn was an improvised novel, and it became a novel I think is very good, Lost and Not Found. Perhaps I can do it again.
With the “put in a house in November” plan pretty-much set aside, it looks like I don’t know what time I’ll have available, but I’m ear-marking 6AM-9AM every day, which depending on how things go, may be plenty of time. Then again, November 2-4 I may or may not be in San Diego, and November 5th, the Matrix has me. But other than that, I should be able to pretty-well devote myself to novel-writing the whole month. That is, I expect to get quite a few Mouse panels done while procrastinating. Wheee!
I encourage all of you to try writing a novel for National Novel Writing Month. It’s fun, and there’s nothing to lose. You won’t be any less of a writer if you fail to get the novel written in a month than if you don’t try, so try! If you do, let me know and we can put the word counter on Modern Evil or FYTH somewhere for us all to keep updated (though the nanowrimo site does this anyway).
Whee! THe sleeping pill is either kicking in now or I’m having a stroke. I’m going to bed now, either way. Night.