Funk Babblings

I know everyone is tired of depressing hurricane talk by now, but I need to get this out before the new news cycle, dominated by the Supreme Court, forgets about New Orleans and the terrible loss of life there.

( Loss of a culture... )

Update: Listen to some of that New Orleans culture over at Live365.
Or check out On The Media and listen to the editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune talk about getting their paper out under these conditions.
Another Update: On being poor.
And Harry Shearer's Le Show does a celebration of New Orleans for his latest show.

So, all those people who backed up their livejournals when they heard about the sale to Six Apart may have had the right idea after all, even if it was for the wrong reason.

Slashdot had some comments on the LJ outage, including some Informative comments from LJ admins bradfitz and denisep/rahaeli. My favorite comment there (among many funny ones):

A great disturbance in the Force... (Score:5, Funny)
... as if millions of teenage girls suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

I'm on the MadCow cluster, so I had to wait until this afternoon to exist again on LJ, while most people came back last night. I survived by anonymously sucking on my friends' friends lists, and luckily didn't need to gnaw my own keyboard off. (OK, actually we had a great visit with a friend last night.)

Around the time that LJ went down Friday, I got a brief firsthand look at some real-life downtime. ( Read more... )