Why It All Went Bye-Bye

It's all Al Gore's fault. He's the one who invented the internets in the first place, right?

Whoever it was, they're getting a big piece of plutonium in their christmas stocking this year.

First our entire website disappeared sometime late Tuesday night. When it came back, our live streams were all screwy and our radio program archives were dead. It turns out that the giant energizer bunny at our data center in New York City keeled over and died, sending low voltage through all our servers, ultimately destroying the computer that houses all of our realaudio and mp3 radio archives. We're currently using our backup archive server, although it's looking like a big batch of our realaudio archives are crapping out. If anybody finds any realaudio archives like that, let me know.

Just as our streaming and archiving problems were sorting themselves out, the blog disappeared. It turns out that typepad was having similar problems, and they reverted our blog (and millions of others) to a backup copy that was a week old.  UPDATE: It looks like typepad has finally restored all articles and images. Woo-hoo!

The week kicked off for me with my first fake cease and desist e-mail. It's not enough to be besieged with fake password e-mails, fake offers from Nigerian royalty and the always entertaining dada spams. Now I have to get fake cease and desist e-mails from people about the public domain and creative commons material on this blog. Well, I briefly lost my balls and removed a few posts which I'll put back up in the next week or so. Ah, the internet. Just like Al Gore planned it.

In the meantime, listeners Lukas and Barret helped me find my balls by sending me this song (mp3).

Comments

[Henry Lowengard]

You can also sing along to Brian Woodbury's
"I've Still Got My Balls"
(excerpt)

[Level 2 Peon]

What on earth is that thing in the picture? And what the hell is happening in there?

[Oedipa Maas]

Word. If you go into the Design tab on your Typepad control panels and republish everything, it will probably fix most, if not all, of your blog related woes. G'luck.

And by the way....what the hell is up with that picture? Downright disturbing. Beyond weird. And so in need of a context.

[fatty jubbo]

man, I love that picture. by Charlie White

more here

[Chico Bangs]

I wish I had more advice to help you with restoration, but it sounds like you're on your way to doing what you can. As a longtime reader and fan, I'm glad you're putting the site back together.

But -- what the hell is that balls song? It sounds like Julie Andrews running daycare at Plato's Retreat.

[Ha ChaCha]

If only Al Gore could "restore" his "image"!?!?!? Huh??? Wha??? Oh!!!

[compn]

hmm, i recently grabbed a few of those do-or-diy show archives... grabbed on 12/16, but i think only this year's stuff...

email if interested ;p

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[Lukas]

I finally found out where the "balls" track came from. Instead of retyping the whole shebang, I'll just direct you to my own shiny blog. Look at the comments section for the for the Truth About Balls.