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Archive for August 5th, 2006

Baseball Bias: Site and Forums

Posted by jetblack on August 5th, 2006

I’m going to leave the site’s backend up: http://www.baseballbias.com/administrator
I’m also going to leave the forums up: http://smf.hopestation.net

But only for one week. If you’re like Tap, who might need their articles for posterity, then I suggest you head over and nab the html copies (click on view for the little window) and then save to disk if you should need them for your portfolio. I’ll also be happy to act as reference for anyone who needs one.

Baseball Bias: RIP

Posted by jetblack on August 5th, 2006

Yeah, it’s official. I can’t solve the database problems, and I don’t know why it constantly craps out every 2-4 days. I think maybe Joomla hammers the ever-loving shit out of it, and let’s face it, I was only paying $3 a month for their service and I guess I shouldn’t have expected too much. I considered moving the database from godaddy to otaking.org, but the versions are incompatible (godaddy uses 4.0 and otaking is using 3.23)… and it would take a pro db admin to revert it back to an earlier version of mysql.

I want to thank those of you who were on board from the beginning… it was a lot of fun while it was up and I appreciate your efforts. I just wish that something this stupid wasn’t the cause of it. I wish I could afford the $100 a month to get the deluxe co-location server with them with the premium database software or something.

I guess for now, I’ll use it as my writing site or something, because we’re paid through for a whole year. :/

Studio 60 is out there…

Posted by jetblack on August 5th, 2006

The latest Sorkin creation, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, was released today by NBC as a DVD. I’m looking for it, and if you have Netflix, then put the DVD in your queue. It won’t disappoint you.

There shall be two Studio 60 fans in my household, I don’t care if I have to buy a cat and make it watch with me.

Knight to the Third Power

Posted by jetblack on August 5th, 2006

This is about my writing. Feel free to ignore this just like everything else I post about.

So, for the rest of the year, I’ve got my work cut out for me. Until the end of this month, it’s all about finishing Knight Commander. With the recent visit of Abbie and the changes/edits made to the book itself, there’s still about 15,000 words that need to be added in order to get to 90k (typical sci-fi novel length). Add to that, Knightfall (the third book), is now broken up into two, as well, since we were well on our way to hitting the 150k mark on it. Decided to do a second trilogy with the sidekick character, Teri Fisher. So now we have:

The Melissa Knight trilogy:

  • Knight Commander
  • Knight on Hope Station
  • Knightfall

    The Teri Fisher trilogy:

  • Untitled #33 (formerly Knightfall’s second half)
  • Untitled #34
  • Untitled #35

    That’s going to cover six books about the Civil War, and then move right into the Cold War that occurs right afterward.

    The writing schedule is as follows:

    August 1-31: Knight Commander
    September 1-October 31: Knight on Hope Station (currently 34k, needs to be 90k)
    November 1-30: Untitled #33 (NaNoWriMo) (minimum 50k written)
    December 1-31: I didn’t get this far… but probably finishing Knightfall to 90k.

    Oh, and then it’s 2007… crap, time is flying fast.

    Thanks for all the words of encouragement.