Lull and DFC

I haven't posted much lately. That's because I've been working on a rather large project that has taken up most of my spare time. I mentioned it in a phone post last week, I think.

Basically, I'm creating a set of spreadsheets for all the entries in the Chaos Project on my site. Not only am I consolidating the archives and "live" entries (which aren't normally viewable any more, because the guestbook service is virtually unreachable), but I'm editing the entries, assigning keywords, and adding other sorting fields and data.

It's interesting. I wish I had one or more people to help me with this part of it, but I've come to accept that that's not going to happen. Perhaps once I've completed the project and it has been posted online more people will contribute to it; I hope so.

On an unrelated note, yay! I found an active copy of the DFC archives! Here's a link to my favorite one, in which Billy aims his cranial spout with care and prepares to eject his pineal gland, while Xena kills people with her "Chakrum". You can navigate to the index from there.

Lull and DFC

I haven't posted much lately. That's because I've been working on a rather large project that has taken up most of my spare time. I mentioned it in a phone post last week, I think.

Basically, I'm creating a set of spreadsheets for all the entries in the Chaos Project on my site. Not only am I consolidating the archives and "live" entries (which aren't normally viewable any more, because the guestbook service is virtually unreachable), but I'm editing the entries, assigning keywords, and adding other sorting fields and data.

It's interesting. I wish I had one or more people to help me with this part of it, but I've come to accept that that's not going to happen. Perhaps once I've completed the project and it has been posted online more people will contribute to it; I hope so.

On an unrelated note, yay! I found an active copy of the DFC archives! Here's a link to my favorite one, in which Billy aims his cranial spout with care and prepares to eject his pineal gland, while Xena kills people with her "Chakrum". You can navigate to the index from there.

Attempted News Post

I tried to comment on the post over in News about the suspension mess, because it has been bothering me a bit more lately. But comments just maxed out this morning.

I realize that I might as well write this on a piece of paper and throw it off the roof of the John Hancock building; nobody is going to read this who can do anything about it. But I might as well record it for myself, so that the next time Six Apart fucks up I'll have a record to point to.

Although that won't matter, either.

---

I haven't been closely following this whole mess - one of the advantages of having a tiny flist, I guess - but I will say that personally, I didn't trust Six Apart much to begin with, and I don't trust them AT ALL now.

Since this suspension screw-up, every time I'm on LJ I can't help but feel that it's not so much a community any more - it's a corporate product. And the people in charge honestly couldn't give a crap about me or anyone else here, as long as they can maximize their advertising revenue.

Which includes Brad, by the way - I'm pretty disgusted with his response, too.

I don't want to believe that everyone who gets some power, authority, or money turns into an asshole. But the evidence keeps mounting every day.

---

Six Apart sucks.

Attempted News Post

I tried to comment on the post over in News about the suspension mess, because it has been bothering me a bit more lately. But comments just maxed out this morning.

I realize that I might as well write this on a piece of paper and throw it off the roof of the John Hancock building; nobody is going to read this who can do anything about it. But I might as well record it for myself, so that the next time Six Apart fucks up I'll have a record to point to.

Although that won't matter, either.

---

I haven't been closely following this whole mess - one of the advantages of having a tiny flist, I guess - but I will say that personally, I didn't trust Six Apart much to begin with, and I don't trust them AT ALL now.

Since this suspension screw-up, every time I'm on LJ I can't help but feel that it's not so much a community any more - it's a corporate product. And the people in charge honestly couldn't give a crap about me or anyone else here, as long as they can maximize their advertising revenue.

Which includes Brad, by the way - I'm pretty disgusted with his response, too.

I don't want to believe that everyone who gets some power, authority, or money turns into an asshole. But the evidence keeps mounting every day.

---

Six Apart sucks.