I was contacted today by some folks in Spain that are publishing a book about Media Art Conservation. They found something I posted to the mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity last year and want my permission to translate and publish it. I'm really excited.

more info on the IDC can be found at their website http://distributedcreativity.org or on the archive of the mailing list at http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/

It took me a while to dig up the post from my archive so I could decide if I wanted to give permission, I'm posting it here for no particular reason other than procrastinating other things I should be doing.

A friend asked me to look at a the website of a hosting company, thinkhost, to evaluate if she should use them for her new website.

First warning sign was the really low price with everything 'unlimited'. No limit on bandwidth, no limit on storage space, no limit on how many sites, etc.. While that sounds great, from experience I have found that companies that boast no limit on anything for such a low price enforce a limit by simply overloading the servers. Sure you don't have any hard limit on bandwidth, but with 100 sites on one server I dare you to serve much data.

The last straw was what thinkhost does when you go to close a page. They hijack the browser with javascript "are you sure you want to close this page" warnings that require multiple clicks to get away from. Come on guys, that's just trying too hard.

I know time are rough, but please come out and show your support for ABC No Rio.

Thank you Amanda, Jenna and Vikki for reminding me to post about the upcoming ABC No Rio fund raising event. Especially Amanda, who's html about the event I stole and reproduce below.

ABC NO RIO GALA & BENEFIT AUCTION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 7 TO 10 PM
ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
172 NORFOLK STREET

[what follows is a rough draft/work in progress]

I have a confession to make: I'm working for Ralph Nader's 2008 Presidential Campaign.

Finally after being lost in limbo since upgrading to drupal 5, I've managed to recover the old files uploaded to the radicalreference.info website.