Day: September 2, 2005

No means no

From another website’s logs, one year ago:

66.151.189.9 - - [30/Aug/2004:00:14:50 -0400] "GET /blog/rss2.xml HTTP/1.1" 410 1112 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, LLC.; Crawler #"

From the same site’s logs today:

64.95.116.1 - - [02/Sep/2005:23:24:49 -0400] "GET /blog/rss2.xml HTTP/1.1" 410 1113 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."

Hey Feedster, ya bunch of dorks, why is it that every other feed spider seems to understand this but your crawler doesn’t?

The requested resource is no longer available at the server and no forwarding address is known. This condition is expected to be considered permanent. [… The] resource is intentionally unavailable and [the] server owners desire that remote links to that resource be removed.

Small town obsession

I am from a small town, and one of the things i have had a hard time adjusting to in the City is that people don’t just “drop-in” for a visit unannounced. […] No phone call, no warning, just a ring of the door bell!

Today i decided to share some of that feeling with a couple of the locked out friends on my street. […]

This is what I miss about the CBC during the lockout: it’s a nationwide small town, full of stories and storytellers. Pary Bell isn’t an on-air personality—when not on the picket line he’s a senior producer for CBC Kids Online—but his weblog and many of the others show the depth of narrative talent that the Ceeb has all the way through the organization. For the most part, the podcasts and lockout blogs—even Ouimet’s, most of the time—aren’t propaganda tools: they’re the products of people who are going through a situation in which they can’t tell their stories to the country any more, so they’re telling them to the ether because they can’t not tell them.

Writing is a mug’s game. It’s heartbreak. It’s pain and struggle and rejection and isolation and the only reason…the ONLY reason…to do it is if you’ve got something to say, something that burns in you so that you can’t *NOT* write.

End the lockout. Soon. Please.