Nick got a publishing offer for Move Under Ground. Pretty cool. If you aren’t familiar with him, you should check out his novella Northern Gothic, it’s great.

Since the anime blog hasn’t been fixed yet (it’s still suffering from the issues this blog had this week), I’m going to post a bit about an anime I watched tonight called Brigadoon. It’s the story of this girl Marin who ends up being attacked by aliens. And she stumbles on this other alien robot guy who protects her. The show is pretty silly, but it really worked for me. Marin has this very overactive imagination where she keeps imagining herself getting zapped into just a skeleton. It’s pretty funny. And the last episode on the first DVD has the best alien bad guy ever.

Once again, my friend Lukas and his blog have been mentioned in a newspaper. This time for his coverage of a local Turkey. I guess he’s getting lots of web traffic from it, so head on over and add to it.

I’m back!

Thanks to some help from Ben Trott I was able to recover all my posts. Here’s the part that sucks though, my posts don’t have the same blog item numbers. Because of this, the individual pages have all changed (and will likely change again if I go to move this to another site). The timing of this is somewhat fitting because of a recent post to Scripting News about Post IDs in RSS 2.0. The concept of having post ideas that are part of the export/import process makes a lot of sense to me now, since all my permalinks aren’t really anymore. If I only had one blog running in my installation of Movable Type that might not have been the case, but I also use it for my anime blog (which is currently kind of offline till I can move it also). While RSS doesn’t work that well for exporting and importing with Movable Type due to comments and trackbacks, the concept of Post IDs does make a lot of sense. There’s got to be some way to make it work (though I could see issues with importing posts into a blog that already has posts, what do you do with conflicting numbers). Anyone have any thoughts on this? Possible solutions that will work when exporting/importing?

Lots of things all being kind of fubared at once is starting to get to me. I’d been meaning to upgrade my cable router because it’s old and it’s always had a few quirks that had annoyed me. So since I was having problems getting the voice chat on iChat a/v I decided that would be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I picked up a netgear one, since I’d had decent luck with their stuff before. It’s the FR114P. It advertises itself as a cable/dsl firewall. It’s got a great interface, but I’m really not happy with it at all. It seems to be getting confused as to where to send packets, it times out my outgoing MUD connections if I’m idle for more than about 5 minutes, and it doesn’t work with the other switch I have. So I think I’m going to return it tomorrow and try the Linksys (If at first you don’t succeed…).

On the plus side, I’ve sent off a help request for my Movable Type issues, and I’m hoping they’ll be able to help me.

So, last night the partition MovableType lives on ran out of space. Because of that, something got a little screwed up in the database. Needless to say I’m a bit annoyed at myself, but I haven’t given up hope yet. In the meantime, I thought I’d set up a temp page so I could ramble about whatever.

I also just registered my Movable Type installation, so I’m going to see what support can do for me.

So tonight I was IMing with my friend Selma and I came up with a great use for that clear neon paint I posted about yesterday. Next time you decide to move, you get a bunch of this paint, and paint your apartment with it. Go crazy with it. Maybe spray paint messages on the walls. You could do something like “THE MONKEY MAN IS COMING FOR YOU”, “YOUR PARENTS ARE WATCHING YOU”, or any number of weird and creepy things. The great part is, the person moving into your apartment could go forever with never seeing it if they don’t have a black light. Heck, maybe you’ll end up catching the second person who ends up moving into your old place.

Tonight there were going to be some interesting clouds thanks to NASA, but the mission was scrubbed for the night. Sounds like they’ll be trying again tomorrow night.

So, I guess that last night the promo cards during Adult Swim said the following at some point:

A new anime is coming your way

It’s only six episodes long.

But it’s shockingly great.

Like Bebop

Big O

and Beef Logs

[adult swim]

Hmmmm… I wonder…could it be?

So, I guess that last night the promo cards during Adult Swim said the following at some point:

A new anime is coming your way

It’s only six episodes long.

But it’s shockingly great.

Like Bebop

Big O

and Beef Logs

[adult swim]

Hmmmm… I wonder…could it be?