Re: UniversesImagined webs
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com wrote: And as near as I can tell the admin needs to create webs. You are now an admin, Trent. If there's anything you need to do that you cannot, let me know. I've also registered the domain name and pointed to the directory. However, the server will redirect it to the current URL... I'll fix that up later on. It requires changing paths in the config scripts, which I don't want to take the time for now. Nick ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com wrote: The host or its agents cannot serve on any board of directors since that would be a conflict of interest. Eh? Interlocking boards of directors with conflicts of interest are the American Way! Seriously, though, I'd need some clarification. I have and I do serve on boards, but I don't think they create any conflict of interest. I am presently on the board of Lutheran Social Services, one of the largest social services non-profits around. There's no conflict there, I'm quite sure. Conflicts of interest need to be disclosed for the sake of transparency, of course. What kind of boards did you have in mind? Nick ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: May not be around
Update my sister has survived more than 24 hours after she crashed, which is good -- the first 24 hours are always critical. She apparently went into septic shock this morning, but a fairly new, very expensive drug for sepsis brought her blood pressure back up, so she weathered that crisis. Nick ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: May not be around
On 02/01/2010, at 10:55 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: Update my sister has survived more than 24 hours after she crashed, which is good -- the first 24 hours are always critical. She apparently went into septic shock this morning, but a fairly new, very expensive drug for sepsis brought her blood pressure back up, so she weathered that crisis. Eesh. Thank goodness she's been able to get that level of medical care. Are you going across to be with her (you're in CA, no?). Charlie. ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: May not be around
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Charlie Bell char...@culturelist.orgwrote: On 02/01/2010, at 10:55 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: Update my sister has survived more than 24 hours after she crashed, which is good -- the first 24 hours are always critical. She apparently went into septic shock this morning, but a fairly new, very expensive drug for sepsis brought her blood pressure back up, so she weathered that crisis. Eesh. Thank goodness she's been able to get that level of medical care. Are you going across to be with her (you're in CA, no?). Yes, I'm in Santa Clara... waiting to see if I should head to NC. Apparently the recovery from something like this is very long, so I'm not rushing there unless the medical people say that it's time for family to gather. They haven't quite said that, but close. Nick ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again (III) :-/
... It seems like they are running a seek-and-destroy against every Brin stuff in wikipedia. After Alvin, the trolls will delete Streaker. The Troll is targeting for deletion: Gubru, G'Kek, EarthClan, Tymbrimi, Streaker (David Brin), Jophur, and Alvin Hph-wayuo. ... If we want the articles to stay up on Wikipedia, the best defense is references to them in books not written by David Brin. Does anybody know any? ---David ___ Jumping in here without reading the whole thread (bad form, I know, but I have no time to even be reading what I've read and replying *now*), but an amazon.com search might turn something up. It's given me stupid references to things inside books when I've been looking for just one thing in particular, so, at least in theory, that should work now. Julia ... Julia-- Thanks for the suggestion. Google Book Search seems better, though. I found a synopsis in _What do I read next? 97_ that way. (Or little snippets of it, since that's what the search returned.) So I put that and some other references in the Alvin article, removed the tags from it, and put it (and 15 more Brin-related pages) on my watchlist. The sense I get is that Abductive is on a crusade against poorly-sourced articles. It's silly in a way, since it's easy enough to hunt up sources, and putting them in doesn't really improve the articles. The best spin I can put on his actions are that he's trying to get people to improve their articles. Once people have put enough effort into an article to add references, it WILL probably be a good article. ---David Oh, and Happy New Year to everybody! ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
