Despite what you might think, we're not dead, DAve. Far from it in fact,
Dave. Actually, where is Dave anyway? Isn't he hanging out on Freeview,
Sky and Virgin cable these days? Man, what a most definitely boring
passtime or something.
Anyway I came to say thanks to a few people, namely Kevin Reeves, Patrick
Perdue, John Clower, and some other people that nobody here knows. Why?
Simply due to the fact that they have helped me most recently.
We have a problem, and I think the only way to solve it is by asking for
your support. Since a fairly large contingent of people listen to that
thing called The Beyond Radio Network, it is my duty to inform you that as
of this writing, the servers that host it are now 152% overquota on
bandwidth usage. At $0.10 per GB, this is quickly going to mount up. So
unless we simply put the boxes offline until end of month which by the
way,
simply cannot happen at all because I have paying clients and they would
hate me for it, my only other recourse is to ask for your help, but not in
a
conventional way either.
I have resisted shamelessly plugging on this list because quite frankly
it's
pretty gay if you ask me, owner of a list plugging his so-calld
achievements
but in this case I'm doing it to raise money for the continued use of the
servers, so I don't end up $50 or more out of pocket on the first of
September.
Not only do I have my wife's birthday coming up, but in under four weeks,
a
new baby, and both those persons require feeding, clothing, money and
other
items to stay alive. Now I could simply ditch servers in light of all
that
but I flatly refuse to do so. I am not one to start a project like this,
maintain it for four years and then bye bye it at the first sign of
trouble.
We've survived crashes and other rubbish so this is no different, just a
small glitch in our day-to-day runnings that can be solved.
For one thing, if I put mister and misses server offline, then the event
at
the end of this month could not come to your sound systems with it's
glorious bass and blow out your walls! To what am I referring? Why, the
Nottinghill Carnival of course! Yes, very soon it is the anual Carnival
stream, and obviously this requires bandwidth. It is traditional for me
to
stream it for as close on two days solid as I can physically manage, and
this year is no exception. Why fuss and fight in a croud if you don't
have
too? Stay home and hear a small piece of it, and it's quite the good
piece
anyway. I fully intend to bring this to you, even if I have to borrow
another person's server to do it, but for tradition sake, I'd like to keep
it in-house. This, naturally, will put out more bandwidth than usual, so
I
am proposing the following:
Those with CdBaby connections, if you can buy a copy of my first ever
released album, either in digital or physical form, you choose, that money
will go towards wife, baby, and server upkeep. It depends how much I
make,
and that's all upto, or down to you, the lovely people on this list.
I also didn't advertise this previously, because up until Friday, I had no
previews of the tracks. Thanks to CdBaby, there are now 30-second
previews
of all 19 tracks on the album, so that is helpful.
If you do feel so inclined and think you can spair a few American Dollars,
then please visit:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/andrelouis
and purchice your own copy today, either on CD, or by digital download.
Buying two or more entitles you to a 10 percent discount.
I will thank you in advance for buying because it means a lot to me if you
do.
If you think I'm a shameless whore with no life, and that this is a cheap
get-ritch quick scheme on my part, you'd be pretty wrong. OK I admit, the
no life part, but the get-ritch quick scheme? Fail. This kind of endevor
makes hardly any money, and by the time it does, you'd better be selling
by
the hundreds, not just 5 or so. So no, definitely not a quickly get ritch
scheme, but a money-making scheme. Even if it's $9.95, that's a small
amount I can throw in the virtual pocket.
Welcome to Monday and all the not joy that it brings.
MR Andre P. Louis
My personal site: http://AndreLouis.COM
My Live Journal: http://LJ.AndreLouis.COM
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/andre.louis
Free music (for use in MOH systems, podcasts and radio):
http://onj1.AndreLouis.COM/Beds
The Beyond Radio Network (TBRN:) http://www.TBRN.NET
The phonetones project: http://onj1.AndreLouis.COM/phonetones
Please support me by buying a copy of my album:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/andrelouis
Online contacts:
Email and NET Messenger: [email protected]
Aim: FreakyFwoof
Telephone contacts:
Home (phone United Kingdom): +44207-0788886
Home (fax United Kingdom): +44207- 2212126
Cellular (United Kingdom): +44-7875-546903
In the United States: +1-404-8065809
or
+1-425-906-3664
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