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Tuesday, September 07, 2004
A Request For My Readers
As of September 30, The Palace Of Reason will close permanently.
I’ve been trying to move the better essays from that site to this one, and have already collected quite a few in the Screeds section, but much work remains. However, it’s not my intention to move all those essays here. I’m picking and choosing among them, copying only those that seem to have some continuing value. This opens the possibility that I might fail to move something that you, Gentle Reader, might have wanted me to save—and I’d hate for that to happen.
So: If there are any Palace pieces you particularly liked and wouldn’t want to lose, please write (or comment here) to tell me so, and I’ll make sure to bring them over. They’ll go into Screeds with the others, and their URLs will remain stable for as long as I can keep Eternity Road open for business. (Yes, I hate “link rot” too.)
Speaking of which: Is anyone working on a vaccine against link rot? If not, do you suppose we could get a bill introduced in Congress? Maybe apply for a federal grant?
(tee hee)
Comments
* The entrie Tyranny and its Fringes series.
* http://palaceofreason.com/Curmudgeon/what_you_do_best.html for its relating of Fran’s experiences that help demonstrate Curmudgeon’s raison d’etre.
* The series on Convergence of the Death Cults and what I think of its prologue,
http://palaceofreason.com/Curmudgeon/second_crucifixion.html
and what I think of its epilogue
http://palaceofreason.com/Curmudgeon/hive_minds.html* http://palaceofreason.com/Curmudgeon/facts_filters_frou.html
for its early contributions towards sustaining the disintegration of Lamestream.* The 3 day series of “The Rules,” “Conspiracy Theories,” and culminating with http://palaceofreason.com/Curmudgeon/unadmitted_risk.html
for its nailing the problem of tolerating tolerance as the predominant overriding ethos, effectively shutting out all principled stances.Also, please try and save the still extant comments.
I reserve the right to request others, oh prolific one.
Posted by Pascal on 09/07/2004 at 03:03 PM[ooh, I wish I was more careful, and apologize for flubbing it again. How about an edit feature like vBulletin software permits?]
* The <s>entrie</s> entire Tyranny and its Fringes series.
* The series on Convergence of the Death Cults and what I think of [as] its prologue,
http://palaceofreason.com/Curmudgeon/second_crucifixion.html
and what I think of [as] its epilogue
http://palaceofreason.com/Curmudgeon/hive_minds.htmlPosted by Pascal on 09/07/2004 at 05:05 PMWhy not look for a grant. It would be money well spent, unlike most other Federal grant projects.
Posted by Mike on 09/07/2004 at 06:16 PMI’ll add my vote for the entire Tyranny and its Fringes series.
Why, may I ask, is the Palace closing?
Posted by Ironbear on 09/07/2004 at 08:33 PMThe Palace costs me quite a lot to keep open, ‘Bear: about $50 per month. When I first contracted with the Palace’s host, I was impressed with the speed of response and the up-time guarantees. But that $50 doesn’t include MySQL support—I’d have to pay an additional $30 per month for that—so I couldn’t use Moveable Type, pMachine or Expression Engine there. Everything had to be physical pages.
Atop that, I was running out of co-contributors. The concept had apparently run out of steam for all my colleagues. So I “declared victory and withdrew,” took Connie’s advice about pMachine Hosting and Expression Engine blogging software, and here I am.
For $20 per month, pMachine Hosting is giving me everything I need. My accountant is very pleased. As she’s also my wife, you can imagine the spinoff benefits.
Posted by Francis W. Porretto on 09/07/2004 at 09:05 PMAH. That does explain it. No probs - I was kind of wondering if there’d been other posts on this and I’d missed them…
Too bad on your co-contributors. I’m familiar with that refrain… it seems to be a bane of a majority of co-creator projects. I’ve had projects of my own die off because the coconspirators lost steam. Likewise, I’ve lost steam myself and had to beg out of collaborative projects. Happens to us all.
Aside from/in addition to the “Fringes of Tyranny” series, I’d say to make up a list of what you consider your “Best of” posts, and salvage and migrate those. That should cover it nicely.
Posted by Ironbear on 09/07/2004 at 09:38 PMThis opens the possibility that I might fail to move something that you, Gentle Reader, might have wanted me to save—and I’d hate for that to happen.
You mean, besides ALL of them?
An anthological [sp?} writing history, whether contemporary/relevant or not, is a terrible thing to
wastelose.Posted by Mrs. du Toit on 09/08/2004 at 08:52 AMOh, and one more thing… you can stop thanking me now. It makes me feel terribly guilty.
You see, I knew that once the hassles and burdens of your old technique for writing were simplified with the delight of blogging software, that you’d write more. That has shown (again) to be the result.
All I did was change the platform and make it easier for you to write, all with sinister and selfish desires to get more writing out of you. Plan worked! HA!
Your abundance of prose is all the thanks I ever sought.
Posted by Mrs. du Toit on 09/08/2004 at 08:56 AM
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