From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V9 #50 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Saturday, May 1 2004 Volume 09 : Number 050 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Old Grey Whistle Test DVD ["Blagg & Norling" Subject: Alloy: Old Grey Whistle Test DVD Dear all, A friend just told me that he recently bought The Old Grey Whistle Test DVD No2 of 3 DVD set. On it was a live performance by Thomas and his band doing Hyperactive. I can vividly remember staying up til some silly hour in the morning to watch it as a 14 year old New Years Eve 1984. I can remember that he was dressed in a long overcoat and was on stage with Adelle Bertei who was the backing singer on the album track along with his trombonists etc.WOW. I think I'm off to get myself a copy!!! For those not resident in the UK, TOGWT was an old live music program broadcast weekly late at night which gave opportunities to new bands (and a few more established ones at that) to strutt their stuff in front of a small studio audience. I thought you should know!!! Trev.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:36:12 -0400 From: "Crackers" Subject: Alloy: Aryan Jesus always has to ruin it for everybody else. Well this has been a bitter week of frustration. Those of you who regularily read my comic may have noticed something a little usual about my strip this week. The pages all loaded very quickly and there was no ad banner at the top of the page (hence why the pages loaded so quickly since I didn't need to have the ad fed to me first from the adserver). Burst, the ad network that does all the advertising for Keenspace sites got offended by one of my recent strips and yanks all their ads from my comic. The irony is after 3 years of tentacled beasties violating nubile young women, otaku shemales being sodomised by strap-on clad dominatrixes, homoerotica out the wazoo, and mechanized Furry sex it was a drawing of a guy having missionary position sex with his wife for the purpose of procreation that made Burst go "Woah! Woah! Woah! You're crossing the line here buddy!". Well it was a drawing of Aryan Jesus having the sex so that might have had something to do with it. Strange though that they didn't have any problems with the much more semetic Drunk and Bitter Jesus having a little BDSM crucifixion play with Zsa Zsa. I think I'm going to have to address this in a strip. In anycase I am now sponsorless and Keenspace, which has gone from making over $700 a month from my site's advertising is now making somewhere in the neighbourhood of $0 a month. I suspect that the axe is about to fall on my head and I shall soon be hostless. As a result I've been putting my house in order to get ready for the departure. Joey Manley, one of the biggest names in webcomic publishing, will be starting a new hosting service in a couple of months that both he and I are eager for me to be moving to (wow, it'll be so nice to actually be hosted somewhere that I'm actually wanted). I'll be going independent and will be selling my own targeted advertising instead of using a generic ad network like Burst. To be honest, Keen should have been doing that with a comic such as mine from the very begining then things like this wouldn't have happened. In order to prepair for the new ad models I plan to employ once I've gained my independence it has required me to recode my entire site. The code that was running on my site was basically the same kernal that was running when I first started my comic three years ago. Everytime I'd make a change to the site I'd just kludge the change onto the old code and promise myself I'd go back and re-do it all properly later. Then I'd kludge another change, and another, and another, and then three years later I've got a much different looking site filled with horrible and confusing speghetti code that's horribly inefficient and buggy as hell. I can't have that if I'm going to be selling my own adspace. So everything was wiped clean and I built proper page templates that can be used to easily control the content of the entire site as well as allow easy design changes in the future. That meant a hell of a lot of recoding for me this week. In fact I've been doing almost nothing this week apart from retooling my site (I'm about 98% finished, there's one other little change I might impliment depending on what I hear back from Keenspace). You know what I have to say about recoding over a hundred pages of HTML? Listening to The Golden Age Of Wireless while doing any sort of programming ABSOLUTELY ROCKS! Don't get me wrong, it was still a tedius and monumentally annoying task. I've really got to take some time to learn PHP or Pearl or something that will let me automate the process a lot more than doing all my HTML by hand. But listening to TGAOW made the experience bearable. Actually, I listened to all my Dolby CDs while working away but TGAOW was the best of the bunch to program to. It just made me think of the early 80s when I was in highschool, getting together with my friends James and Tom and spending hours upon hours behind the keyboard of our Commodore 64s cranking out program after program and going through litre after litre of cola. Man, those were the days. Programming for the sheer joy of programming not because it was something you had to do, and listening to my cassette of The Golden Age Of Wireless over, and over and over again. It felt like we were on the cusp of a bright new future, computers and synthesizers, bold new technologies that were getting ready to take over the world. They were exciting and mysterious and the possibilities seemed endless. Now they have taken over the world and they just seem mundane. Synthesizers are built into computers and computers are just another household utensil like the toaster and the telephone. The internet still has that smell of "future" about it even after the dot.com crash, but it won't be long before it too goes the way of the computer and the synthesizer and becomes just another tool we all take for granted. I'm still kind of pissed that I don't have my HAL 9000, servile fembot robot maid and my freaking flying car that will take me to my summer home on the moon. Oh well, I've got my TGAOW on CD. Crackers Ghastly's Ghastly Comic http://ghastlycomic.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:57:08 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Aryan Jesus always has to ruin it for everybody else. I know what you mean Crackers, it is amazing how fast we adapt and take for granted the technology we have these days. Last summer I built a dedicated home theater in my basement complete with an high definition LCD projector and 7 foot wide screen. I use a computer with the projector for watching DVDs', Playing Games, recording HD TV ect. The other day I was watching the movie Tron and while looking at those primitive computer graphics in the movie it struck me as odd that I now actually have a computer capable of playing the movie from a small shiny disc all in digital form and I thought nothing of it. Wow, how we've progressed. On top of being able to watch the movie, I also can play the actual arcade game thanks to MAME. I tried to conjure up my inner 16 year old from 1982 to say "did you ever think you'd be doing that". He didn't quite show up, but I think he would have been really impressed. Perhaps he was secretly guiding me as I put together the theater. I think I'll hook my still working Commodore VIC20 up to that big screen. That might wake up my inner 16 year old. Well, speaking of my home theater (yeah, I like to show it off). If any of the Colorado Alloys are interested, we should set up a BBQ and screening of a couple of laserdiscs that I have some time on the big screen. Here's my room: http://gallery.avsforum.com/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5791 Later, - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crackers" To: Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 8:36 AM Subject: Alloy: Aryan Jesus always has to ruin it for everybody else. > > Well this has been a bitter week of frustration. Those of you who regularily > read my comic may have noticed something a little usual about my strip this > week. The pages all loaded very quickly and there was no ad banner at the > top of the page (hence why the pages loaded so quickly since I didn't need > to have the ad fed to me first from the adserver). > > Burst, the ad network that does all the advertising for Keenspace sites got > offended by one of my recent strips and yanks all their ads from my comic. > The irony is after 3 years of tentacled beasties violating nubile young > women, otaku shemales being sodomised by strap-on clad dominatrixes, > homoerotica out the wazoo, and mechanized Furry sex it was a drawing of a > guy having missionary position sex with his wife for the purpose of > procreation that made Burst go "Woah! Woah! Woah! You're crossing the line > here buddy!". > > Well it was a drawing of Aryan Jesus having the sex so that might have had > something to do with it. Strange though that they didn't have any problems > with the much more semetic Drunk and Bitter Jesus having a little BDSM > crucifixion play with Zsa Zsa. I think I'm going to have to address this in > a strip. > > In anycase I am now sponsorless and Keenspace, which has gone from making > over $700 a month from my site's advertising is now making somewhere in the > neighbourhood of $0 a month. I suspect that the axe is about to fall on my > head and I shall soon be hostless. As a result I've been putting my house in > order to get ready for the departure. Joey Manley, one of the biggest names > in webcomic publishing, will be starting a new hosting service in a couple > of months that both he and I are eager for me to be moving to (wow, it'll be > so nice to actually be hosted somewhere that I'm actually wanted). I'll be > going independent and will be selling my own targeted advertising instead of > using a generic ad network like Burst. To be honest, Keen should have been > doing that with a comic such as mine from the very begining then things like > this wouldn't have happened. > > In order to prepair for the new ad models I plan to employ once I've gained > my independence it has required me to recode my entire site. The code that > was running on my site was basically the same kernal that was running when I > first started my comic three years ago. Everytime I'd make a change to the > site I'd just kludge the change onto the old code and promise myself I'd go > back and re-do it all properly later. Then I'd kludge another change, and > another, and another, and then three years later I've got a much different > looking site filled with horrible and confusing speghetti code that's > horribly inefficient and buggy as hell. I can't have that if I'm going to be > selling my own adspace. So everything was wiped clean and I built proper > page templates that can be used to easily control the content of the entire > site as well as allow easy design changes in the future. > > That meant a hell of a lot of recoding for me this week. In fact I've been > doing almost nothing this week apart from retooling my site (I'm about 98% > finished, there's one other little change I might impliment depending on > what I hear back from Keenspace). You know what I have to say about recoding > over a hundred pages of HTML? > > Listening to The Golden Age Of Wireless while doing any sort of programming > ABSOLUTELY ROCKS! Don't get me wrong, it was still a tedius and monumentally > annoying task. I've really got to take some time to learn PHP or Pearl or > something that will let me automate the process a lot more than doing all my > HTML by hand. But listening to TGAOW made the experience bearable. Actually, > I listened to all my Dolby CDs while working away but TGAOW was the best of > the bunch to program to. It just made me think of the early 80s when I was > in highschool, getting together with my friends James and Tom and spending > hours upon hours behind the keyboard of our Commodore 64s cranking out > program after program and going through litre after litre of cola. Man, > those were the days. Programming for the sheer joy of programming not > because it was something you had to do, and listening to my cassette of The > Golden Age Of Wireless over, and over and over again. It felt like we were > on the cusp of a bright new future, computers and synthesizers, bold new > technologies that were getting ready to take over the world. They were > exciting and mysterious and the possibilities seemed endless. Now they have > taken over the world and they just seem mundane. Synthesizers are built into > computers and computers are just another household utensil like the toaster > and the telephone. The internet still has that smell of "future" about it > even after the dot.com crash, but it won't be long before it too goes the > way of the computer and the synthesizer and becomes just another tool we all > take for granted. > > I'm still kind of pissed that I don't have my HAL 9000, servile fembot robot > maid and my freaking flying car that will take me to my summer home on the > moon. > > Oh well, I've got my TGAOW on CD. > > Crackers > > Ghastly's Ghastly Comic > http://ghastlycomic.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:00:46 -0700 From: Patrick McMillan Subject: Re: Alloy: Aryan Jesus always has to ruin it for everybody else. Wow. Right wingers on the march (as in a goose step). They had Ted Rall booted off the NY Times. At least you're in good company. We'll look forward to your new incarnation. A second coming, so to speak. On Apr 30, 2004, at 7:36 AM, Crackers wrote: > > Well this has been a bitter week of frustration. Those of you who > regularily > read my comic may have noticed something a little usual about my strip > this > week. The pages all loaded very quickly and there was no ad banner at > the > top of the page (hence why the pages loaded so quickly since I didn't > need > to have the ad fed to me first from the adserver). > > Burst, the ad network that does all the advertising for Keenspace > sites got > offended by one of my recent strips and yanks all their ads from my > comic. > The irony is after 3 years of tentacled beasties violating nubile young > women, otaku shemales being sodomised by strap-on clad dominatrixes, > homoerotica out the wazoo, and mechanized Furry sex it was a drawing > of a > guy having missionary position sex with his wife for the purpose of > procreation that made Burst go "Woah! Woah! Woah! You're crossing the > line > here buddy!". > > Well it was a drawing of Aryan Jesus having the sex so that might have > had > something to do with it. Strange though that they didn't have any > problems > with the much more semetic Drunk and Bitter Jesus having a little BDSM > crucifixion play with Zsa Zsa. I think I'm going to have to address > this in > a strip. > > In anycase I am now sponsorless and Keenspace, which has gone from > making > over $700 a month from my site's advertising is now making somewhere > in the > neighbourhood of $0 a month. I suspect that the axe is about to fall > on my > head and I shall soon be hostless. As a result I've been putting my > house in > order to get ready for the departure. Joey Manley, one of the biggest > names > in webcomic publishing, will be starting a new hosting service in a > couple > of months that both he and I are eager for me to be moving to (wow, > it'll be > so nice to actually be hosted somewhere that I'm actually wanted). > I'll be > going independent and will be selling my own targeted advertising > instead of > using a generic ad network like Burst. To be honest, Keen should have > been > doing that with a comic such as mine from the very begining then > things like > this wouldn't have happened. > > In order to prepair for the new ad models I plan to employ once I've > gained > my independence it has required me to recode my entire site. The code > that > was running on my site was basically the same kernal that was running > when I > first started my comic three years ago. Everytime I'd make a change to > the > site I'd just kludge the change onto the old code and promise myself > I'd go > back and re-do it all properly later. Then I'd kludge another change, > and > another, and another, and then three years later I've got a much > different > looking site filled with horrible and confusing speghetti code that's > horribly inefficient and buggy as hell. I can't have that if I'm going > to be > selling my own adspace. So everything was wiped clean and I built > proper > page templates that can be used to easily control the content of the > entire > site as well as allow easy design changes in the future. > > That meant a hell of a lot of recoding for me this week. In fact I've > been > doing almost nothing this week apart from retooling my site (I'm about > 98% > finished, there's one other little change I might impliment depending > on > what I hear back from Keenspace). You know what I have to say about > recoding > over a hundred pages of HTML? > > Listening to The Golden Age Of Wireless while doing any sort of > programming > ABSOLUTELY ROCKS! Don't get me wrong, it was still a tedius and > monumentally > annoying task. I've really got to take some time to learn PHP or Pearl > or > something that will let me automate the process a lot more than doing > all my > HTML by hand. But listening to TGAOW made the experience bearable. > Actually, > I listened to all my Dolby CDs while working away but TGAOW was the > best of > the bunch to program to. It just made me think of the early 80s when I > was > in highschool, getting together with my friends James and Tom and > spending > hours upon hours behind the keyboard of our Commodore 64s cranking out > program after program and going through litre after litre of cola. Man, > those were the days. Programming for the sheer joy of programming not > because it was something you had to do, and listening to my cassette > of The > Golden Age Of Wireless over, and over and over again. It felt like we > were > on the cusp of a bright new future, computers and synthesizers, bold > new > technologies that were getting ready to take over the world. They were > exciting and mysterious and the possibilities seemed endless. Now they > have > taken over the world and they just seem mundane. Synthesizers are > built into > computers and computers are just another household utensil like the > toaster > and the telephone. The internet still has that smell of "future" about > it > even after the dot.com crash, but it won't be long before it too goes > the > way of the computer and the synthesizer and becomes just another tool > we all > take for granted. > > I'm still kind of pissed that I don't have my HAL 9000, servile fembot > robot > maid and my freaking flying car that will take me to my summer home on > the > moon. > > Oh well, I've got my TGAOW on CD. > > Crackers > > Ghastly's Ghastly Comic > http://ghastlycomic.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:30:27 -0700 From: Patrick McMillan Subject: Re: Alloy: Aryan Jesus always has to ruin it for everybody else. Oops. for those of you who don't know him: http://www.tedrall.com/ On Apr 30, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Patrick McMillan wrote: > > Wow. Right wingers on the march (as in a goose step). They had Ted > Rall booted off the NY Times. At least you're in good company. We'll > look forward to your new incarnation. A second coming, so to speak. > > On Apr 30, 2004, at 7:36 AM, Crackers wrote: > >> >> Well this has been a bitter week of frustration. Those of you who >> regularily >> read my comic may have noticed something a little usual about my >> strip this >> week. The pages all loaded very quickly and there was no ad banner at >> the >> top of the page (hence why the pages loaded so quickly since I didn't >> need >> to have the ad fed to me first from the adserver). >> >> Burst, the ad network that does all the advertising for Keenspace >> sites got >> offended by one of my recent strips and yanks all their ads from my >> comic. >> The irony is after 3 years of tentacled beasties violating nubile >> young >> women, otaku shemales being sodomised by strap-on clad dominatrixes, >> homoerotica out the wazoo, and mechanized Furry sex it was a drawing >> of a >> guy having missionary position sex with his wife for the purpose of >> procreation that made Burst go "Woah! Woah! Woah! You're crossing the >> line >> here buddy!". >> >> Well it was a drawing of Aryan Jesus having the sex so that might >> have had >> something to do with it. Strange though that they didn't have any >> problems >> with the much more semetic Drunk and Bitter Jesus having a little BDSM >> crucifixion play with Zsa Zsa. I think I'm going to have to address >> this in >> a strip. >> >> In anycase I am now sponsorless and Keenspace, which has gone from >> making >> over $700 a month from my site's advertising is now making somewhere >> in the >> neighbourhood of $0 a month. I suspect that the axe is about to fall >> on my >> head and I shall soon be hostless. As a result I've been putting my >> house in >> order to get ready for the departure. Joey Manley, one of the biggest >> names >> in webcomic publishing, will be starting a new hosting service in a >> couple >> of months that both he and I are eager for me to be moving to (wow, >> it'll be >> so nice to actually be hosted somewhere that I'm actually wanted). >> I'll be >> going independent and will be selling my own targeted advertising >> instead of >> using a generic ad network like Burst. To be honest, Keen should have >> been >> doing that with a comic such as mine from the very begining then >> things like >> this wouldn't have happened. >> >> In order to prepair for the new ad models I plan to employ once I've >> gained >> my independence it has required me to recode my entire site. The code >> that >> was running on my site was basically the same kernal that was running >> when I >> first started my comic three years ago. Everytime I'd make a change >> to the >> site I'd just kludge the change onto the old code and promise myself >> I'd go >> back and re-do it all properly later. Then I'd kludge another change, >> and >> another, and another, and then three years later I've got a much >> different >> looking site filled with horrible and confusing speghetti code that's >> horribly inefficient and buggy as hell. I can't have that if I'm >> going to be >> selling my own adspace. So everything was wiped clean and I built >> proper >> page templates that can be used to easily control the content of the >> entire >> site as well as allow easy design changes in the future. >> >> That meant a hell of a lot of recoding for me this week. In fact I've >> been >> doing almost nothing this week apart from retooling my site (I'm >> about 98% >> finished, there's one other little change I might impliment depending >> on >> what I hear back from Keenspace). You know what I have to say about >> recoding >> over a hundred pages of HTML? >> >> Listening to The Golden Age Of Wireless while doing any sort of >> programming >> ABSOLUTELY ROCKS! Don't get me wrong, it was still a tedius and >> monumentally >> annoying task. I've really got to take some time to learn PHP or >> Pearl or >> something that will let me automate the process a lot more than doing >> all my >> HTML by hand. But listening to TGAOW made the experience bearable. >> Actually, >> I listened to all my Dolby CDs while working away but TGAOW was the >> best of >> the bunch to program to. It just made me think of the early 80s when >> I was >> in highschool, getting together with my friends James and Tom and >> spending >> hours upon hours behind the keyboard of our Commodore 64s cranking out >> program after program and going through litre after litre of cola. >> Man, >> those were the days. Programming for the sheer joy of programming not >> because it was something you had to do, and listening to my cassette >> of The >> Golden Age Of Wireless over, and over and over again. It felt like we >> were >> on the cusp of a bright new future, computers and synthesizers, bold >> new >> technologies that were getting ready to take over the world. They were >> exciting and mysterious and the possibilities seemed endless. Now >> they have >> taken over the world and they just seem mundane. Synthesizers are >> built into >> computers and computers are just another household utensil like the >> toaster >> and the telephone. The internet still has that smell of "future" >> about it >> even after the dot.com crash, but it won't be long before it too goes >> the >> way of the computer and the synthesizer and becomes just another tool >> we all >> take for granted. >> >> I'm still kind of pissed that I don't have my HAL 9000, servile >> fembot robot >> maid and my freaking flying car that will take me to my summer home >> on the >> moon. >> >> Oh well, I've got my TGAOW on CD. >> >> Crackers >> >> Ghastly's Ghastly Comic >> http://ghastlycomic.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V9 #50 **************************