I write weekly horoscopes for the Monty Python Society newsletter. Because this usually proves to be quite difficult, I often find myself wading through the local paper’s horoscopes for inspiration. Two things I notice today: one, Jacqueline Bigar, who writes these horoscopes, uses a lot of mights and maybes for something that’s already pretty meaningless and vague; and two, maybe listing John Ritter among the celebrity birthdays wasn’t the best idea.
Month: September 2003
Fellow capper Blakhat passes this along: the Historic Tale Construction Kit.
Oh my:
On November 23rd, after an absence of almost ten years, Opus returns to the nation’s Sunday comic pages.
More details here. Thanks to Peter David for the info.
David also shares this interesting Fan Fiction FAQ. I don’t read or write fan fiction (I, uh, had a bad experience), but some of you might, and it really does look to be quite thorough.
I need to clear up some space for the Monty Python Society website. We have, apparently, gone over our 50MB quota. Since there are, and will continue to be, new things to add and there’s not much to delete, the only option seems to be hosting some of the images somewhere else. (Maybe the mp3s, too, but the images are the big problem.) I can move them to my website, but that’s only a temporary solution. My question then, is: does anyone know of any good free website hosting that doesn’t, well, y’know, suck? By which I mean: is fairly reliable, loads reasonably quickly, doesn’t include pop-ups or banner ads, and allows hotlinking directly to images from another website. It’s been awhile since I’ve had to go shopping for hosting, but I do recognize the possibility that such a combination may not exist. Any ideas?
Addendum: Never mind. For the time being, I’m moving some of the photographs to a Yahoo photo album.
2nd addendum: For anyone who’s interested, clearing this space allowed me to start putting this semester’s MPS newsletters online. Issue 1 of “Volume Hedgehog” is here.
The thing that bothers me most about getting these bounced e-mails that claim to have been sent by different (nonexistent) addresses at unreality.net is that, if it keeps up, a number of people may start blocking my domain simply by default. If I ever, coincidentally, want or need to send these people a genuine e-mail, they (or their computer) will just assume that’s spam, too. And there’s really not a damn thing I can do about it.