It's been awhile since we've had a bleg. I always hate to do it. It makes me feel like a bum. I guess that's appropriate, since I'm bumming. That's why I try to keep it to a minimum. But I'm running low on bourbon and I could use a new laptop.This is also supposed to be a hardware year, although our server seems to be indestructible. It's the best one we've had so far. It's been sitting up in Baltimore for three+ years now, untouched by human hands. Saying that, naturally, means it's going to catch fire or explode or something as soon as the words are out of my mouth (keyboard, as it were). We back up the database, but only twice a day now. I've been extremely remiss about synching the rest of the box, so if we have a crash we'll lose a bunch of images and I'll have to reconstitute. The machine I'm working on at this moment should be able to slip in as a replacement, after a two hour drive to get to Baltimore, but it's not up to it right now. Since it's as old as the server, I should buy a new box.
We're coming up on nineteen years of the Burg. The archives are there, they're available for anyone who wants to use them except for bots. The bots are why you have to email me to get on the archives list. The bloid's now automated, kinda sorta creakily. I have to tell it what I want in it, but I don't have to handle Inkscape and Gimp with my fading, twitching hands to put it together.
Pardon my (usual) long-windedness. The subject is, if you've got it, please kick in. I'd be happy to keep at it for the next nineteen years, and then I'll be happy to hand it off to somebody else who'll love it and take care of it (and obsess over it) like I do.
Fred
Keep on keeping on, Fred. I'm in