View From the Bushes

One of the comments pointed out that I hadn't provided a link to the forums for my Play by Post campaign so here you go. You can see for yourself the confusion I caused. It's Friday, which means that the weekend is about to begin. Based on how bad last weekend was, I'd have to say that I'm not exactly overjoyed by the prospect of another one. Of course, to make sure that this weekend is just as fun as last weekend my body has decided it's coming down with a cold. My only saving grace is that the cold is still in its infancy, and if I'm lucky and get lots of sleep, then maybe it will only be a minor inconvenience. Given my luck recently, I really doubt it.

In other news, Verisign (temporarily at least) shut down it's search service. I'm guessing that probably at least three of my four regular readers have probably not heard about this so I'll explain. Versign has the control over the primary internet name servers for the .com and .net domains. Starting on September 15th, if you typed in a non-existent .com or .net address Verisign would redirect you to a site finder which had some suggestions as to what you might be looking for, a search form and worst of all (in many people's opinions) ads. Of course there was also the problem that instead of returning the "page not found" code they were returning a redirect, which was a violation of the http standard and was blamed for breaking lots of things.

A somewhat analogous situation would be if back in the days of Ma Bell, AT&T, rather than telling you when you had dialed a wrong number, instead had played for you an ad for a pizza place that did delivery, so you can imagine why people would be upset. In any event, enough boring technology news. Whether or not I come down with a cold I'm going to spend the weekend polishing off the latest adventure so expect to see something new either Monday or Tuesday and once again thanks for your patience.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross