The server my domain is on is having hiccups, so Scalzi.com will be down probably for a couple of hours.

Hi, folks. My host for Scalzi.com is having problems with some of its Linux servers, including the one my domain is on. Hopefully the problems will be corrected soon. If not, I'll be back here later.

The Whatever in Exile is now shutting down until such time as it is again needed to save my bacon. If you're a reader here, please now direct your eyeballs to the original Whatever. Or, alternately, if you'd still like a friends feed, go to Scalzifeed.

Thanks!

Steve Schwenk, late of wishing violent death upon the child of a New York Times reporter and then being shocked, shocked when that wish was publicized in the New York Times with his name attached to it, has posted an open letter to Daniel Okrent, the NYT's public editor, who is the one who outed Schwenk in his column ( Read more... )

My new DSL modem has provided me the first true low-ping environment I've had since I left the warm confines of the AOL LAN, lo those many years ago. So I cranked up my Unreal Tournament 2004, went looking for some local servers, and jumped into a deathmatch to see if I still had my 1337 deathmatch 5ki11z5, yo ( Read more... )

Sweet Jesus on Pogo Stick, but I do get sick of ignorant people around here. One just popped up in the comment threads for The Election and Kerry's Shoes and dropped a wide load of ignorance on the proceedings; the item that's currently exercising my irritation is this little gem:

We are the infedels. The Koran instructs Muslims to bring the ( Read more... )

Atrios gets tightly wound over the fact that The New York Times Public Editor Daniel Okrent named someone who had sent a nasty e-mail to a New York Times reporter. This is what Okrent said:

But before I turn over the podium, I do want you to know just how debased the level of discourse has become. When a reporter receives an e-mail message that ( Read more... )

Some thoughts that in themselves don't merit a full entry:* So, here's the basic line coming out of the debate, so far as I can tell: George Bush neither drooled on himself nor shook like a palsied chimpanzee, and was actually reasonably composed, so he wins (and by "wins" we mean to say it's a draw, since Kerry apparently did just fine, too). Talk ( Read more... )

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Friends from California tell me that to judge from the campaign activities there, you'd hardly know there was a presidential election going on. You can't say the same in Ohio, 2004's appointed Really Important Swing State, where it seems the candidates are visiting just about every day, and where I'm getting tons of crap from both parties, in the ( Read more... )