Don't worry: I wasn't talking to any deities; I was actually playing god. Or, more accurately, RollerCoaster Tycoon.
Anyway: I'm back; and I have a bit of news.
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There's something very, very wrong with us.... |
For those who have been wondering when or if the new issue of the National Prevaricator would ever be released, the answer is probably.
The problem lately has been format. When I set up the current format for the Prevaricator, I kinda forgot that I was the only one on the planet qualified to work out how in hell I'd done it, which prevents anyone else from updating the damned thing. Which would be fine, if I personally had time to code the entire issue every X weeks. Which isn't really the case.
So there hasn't been anything new there since April Fools' Day.
Meanwhile, there's been an interest in some sort of HardCopy version--kinda like the interest in RFG CDs, I suppose. And one thing the current version of the Prevaricator doesn't do very well is translate to print.
So I'm rethinking the format a bit.
I've got it mostly worked out here. The tricky part, anyway. The neat little NavBar thingy will still be there; we're just changing the main content a bit.
So here's the good news, from everyone's perspective: because the format is changing a bit, any given moron can write an article now. Of course, that was always the case; we proved that much. The important factor is that any given moron can write it out in text and EMail it in. And, on our end, it'll take all of thirty seconds to thump that into the site.
So: presuming enough roving reporters send us articles, we should be able to publish this rag on a weekly basis after all.
About that:
If you [yes, you] are interested in working real hard for absolutely no salary, then this is your chance to acheive notoreity in the field of journalism while making us rich; SEND IN YOUR NATIONAL PREVARICATOR ARTICLE TODAY!!!
Um...or something like that.
In any case, I think we might have enough stuff here to put together the new issue. Hunter's got all that on her computer, which is momentarily nothing more than a screen advertising Norton's inability to scan for virii in under a week. If we ever get her computer to do anything else again, one such thing else will be to have it tell us what we've got ready to drop into the Prevaricator in the new issue.
In other news: DirecTelocity haven't magically become any less useless yet. Something I've been trying to work out for a while now is why everyone on the network is posting to the board with the same x.x.x.54 IP. It turns out that they lied to us about the multiple IPs as well.
The deal was that they'd give us a static IP [we got that much, obviously] and five dynamics, so we could use additional systems with a hub. I haven't seen any evidence of any dynamic IPs here. What I've seen suggests that we have four or five computers running concurrently on the same IP, which--although the thing is supposed to be running at 512kbps per system--is running a combined 64kbps. Meaning that each of the computers would be running at roughly dialup speeds if they weren't so busy fighting each other for their twenty percent of this weak ISDN rate we have on a digital DSL line.
DirecTV/Telocity conclusively suck. I think I can state without fear of being sued for libel that they suck utterly. The supporting evidence of this suction should convince any given jury that I'm right about this. They suck. A lot. And I welcome any libel suit from them, if only because I'll have the opportunity to convince said jury to avoid ever using DirecTV/Telocity for anything. Ever. At all.
If these morons have a purpose in the universe, it's only to provide content for News of the Stoopid.
I should really go work out the new format for the NP now. Before I accidentally go play RCT for another forty-eight hours.
More later....
--Gremlin