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Dear CourierPostOnline.com:

I am one of the people who read your RSS feed nearly daily.

For about the past two weeks, your RSS feed has been unusable. For some reason, your RSS feed puts the address "moc.go4f" at the front of the address. The moc.go4f.courierpostonline.com subdomain is not visible to the world.

Even worse, your current RSS Feed Listing returns 404 errors on all the listed RSS feeds. (Like this one)

I've tried to use your contact form for New Media Editor Mark Correa to let him know about the problem.

After clicking on "Send Message" on the form, I get this error message:

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Luckily a google search turned up a contact point for their New Media editor. Hopefully direct contact will work better.

We have blinds! We have a bed!

ningeek and I were very hands on DIY today. We put up the blinds, and discovered that we were about an inch too low in installing them. Instead of moving the bracket up, we cut the blinds down. They came out great, and now we have some privacy in the dining room.

It's actually starting to look like a home.

Now to figure out this "how to live together" thing.

Do you know that we are 8 days away from International Talk Like A Pirate Day?

Damn Verizon Wireless.

Recently I got a new phone ("new every 2" upgrade.)

I asked for them to transfer my contacts. The guy said he'd do it. He did it. Then he said "I also downloaded Verizon Navigator for you"

He told me it was some amount of money per month, and I can cancel at any time.

I never asked him to download it.

I was charged $9.99 for the data download.

I have a GPS. I don't need another one.

EDIT: Double screw up. The $9.99 data charge for the VZ Navigator was actually refunded. I missed that. The other data charge came from the Verizon Wireless store rep downloading music to my phone. How nice.

That charge has also been refunded, and my bill is back to the amount I expect it to be for my plan.

RIT isn't all bricks, classes, and hockey games...

There's music too.

Peter Mulvey on tour, September 9-26 "The Long Haul Tour 2009", Peter will be traveling by bike from show to show, an estimated 1100 miles, starting in Grand Rapids, Michigan and ending in Northampton, MA.

For

ningeek: linky, and this graph jam

And, for everyone else: Ring ring! Bananaphone!

Thanks, StumbleUpon!

Protip: The U-Haul dish saver kit doesn't actually include the box in the kit (despite the label insisting that it does)

If you buy one, be sure to ask for the box.

via Facebook: David Hein's musical "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding" is going to be produced by Mirvish Productions and will be at the Panasonic Theatre on November 7th.

(Hint: Mirvish Productions is responsible for REALLY BIG productions in Toronto... like "The Phantom Of The Opera"... "Mamma Mia!"... "The Lion King", they have also developed other shows from the Fringe Festival. Mirvish Productions says:

"It doesn't often happen that a show leaps straight from its fringe beginnings and lands in the mainstream. The last time it happened was 10 years ago with a little show we discovered (also at the Toronto Fringe) called THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, which we helped to develop over a workshop and several productions. And everyone knows what eventually happened with that show."

via StumbleUpon: Virtual Shackles, webcomic. Not a lot of strips in its history, but it made me laugh.

via Kotaku - Gaming as a part of going through chemotherapy, and a reminder that Child's Play continues its mission of helping childrens hospitals throughout the country.

Carsie Blanton's new album Buoy is now available on CD Baby.

Special deal: Buy one copy at regular price, and extra copies are $9.60. This is good today (August 3rd) and tomorrow (August 4th).

1 dead, 15 injured after a storm and stage collapse at a country music festival in Edmonton, Alberta.

"Lightning, hail, thunder . . . it looked like a tornado," she said. "Debris was flying everywhere."

It keeps reminding me that Sunday afternoon at Falcon Ridge could have been far far far far far worse.

Budgiedome 2009 Sessions
Thanks everyone for coming up to the Budgiedome despite the rain.

Here is a list of everyone who played at The Budgiedome in our late-night sessions.

( Cut for length )
Cross-posted to:

falconridge

Budgiedome 2009 Schedule posted here

I listened to NPR's Hearing Voices on Sunday while I was driving from place to place. The theme of the episode was "Outer Space" in honor of today's 40th Anniversary of putting a man on the moon.

I was kinda surprised to hear a familar voice during the program... it was a recording of Christine Lavin performing her song "Planet X"

Also, flipping through Christine Lavin's press photo listing, I wonder if Gordon or I took this photo. Didn't Betsy Franco give one of us a camera to take a picture with?

A quick reminder: Today at 12:34 and 56 seconds, the current time will be 12:34:56 7/8/9

Oh noes! Avenue Q is closing on Broadway. A very good run though.

For all my Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and This American Life fans:

Support WBEZ Chicago

Carl Kasell
Peter Sagal

VERY special Youtube messages ;-)

Nifty: iPhone app that keeps you informed on Philadelphia concerts, sorted by performer or venue.

via Geekadelphia