Year: 2004

…are at the midnight showing of Spider-Man 2, I’m sitting here trying to clean up the site. The latest:

Registration now appears to be working, and is pretty painless.* If you register, you’ll be able to post immediately. If not, your posts are going to have to wait until someone here decides to go on a cleaning spree and clean out the inbox. Which, considering Peter and I are both staring at some deadlines, could be hours or days later.

* Unless you don’t get the Typekey confirmation mail, as some ISPs have treated them as spam. If you have that problem, post here with “typekey problem” as your first line, along with your ISP, and we’ll try to fix it with typekey.

The process continues. A few notes:

* Thnaks to Mark L. for pointers that are helping solve some of the problems. However, they don’t seem to be addressing problems with Typekey themselves, as it’s refusing to send me a registration email. If anybody else has been able to become a registered user of Typekey, let me know– and of course, please try to use it here, so I have a real registered commentor to test against.

* Secondly, I have discovered only after upgrading that MT-Blacklist is incompatible with the new version of Movable Type– which means my spam inbox is going to be exploding shortly. Thanks heaps, SixApart– I’m SO glad I paid you money.

Folks, if you can avoid upgrading, DON’T. If any representatives of SixApart would deign to contact me so that these niggling little problems can be worked out, feel free– otherwise, I’m going to keep using the bully pulpit here.

* Finally, to the chap who prompted all of this in the first place: Dee, you better run. Peter was merely ticked at you; I’m now out for blood after having to spend hours cleaning up your messes. Disconnecting your Comcast account isn’t going to be enough to hide– I recommend moving.

UPDATE: If I didn’t make it clear, when you post, clicking on Typekey should allow you to sign up so that you won’t have to wait for your posts to be approved. So please do so, because otherwise who knows when your comments will go live.

FURTHER UPDATE (3:51 PM): Typekey has numerous reports of the confirmation emails being blocked as spam. So we’re working with that as well. Joy.

We’ve had to switch to a registration system for comments. The first time you post, your comments will go into a holding tank until we approve you. Subsequent comments from the same recognized commenter will be posted immediately.

This may take a bit to catch up with new comments; bear with us. Feel free to use this thread to make your comments, so we can approve them.

UPDATE: Comments are taking longer to fix than anticipated. Stop posting here, we’ll let you know when things get back to normal.

Anyone interested in reading more critical acclaim for “Fallen Angel” is invited to check out the following site:

http://weblogs.variety.com/bags_and_boards/

The reviewer says at one point that the future of the series is hinging on the success of the trade. That’s pretty much right. If you haven’t tried it out yet, now’s the time. If your local comic store couldn’t be bothered to stock it, grab it off Amazon (where the current sales ranking is not especially impressive.)

PAD

I have always tried to be honest and straightforward with the people on this board. In that spirit, I want it known that the creature calling itself “Dee” (and a variety of other names) has been permanently banned from this site. I kind of wondered what it would take for me to authorize Glenn to institute blocking someone from this site, and now I know: A poster making lewd and vile sexual comments involving my wife while utilizing explicitly vulgar language.

He of course immediately starting whining on Kathleen’s website about abridgement of free speech, which is the equivalent of showing up at someone’s party, vomiting on people while cursing them out, and then complaining when escorted out that the party thrower is a lousy host. At the earliest opportunity, he will be banned from that site as well.

Good bye and good riddance.

PAD

Part 2 of the four part “Final Exam” is out this week. Whad’ja think?

PAD

So let’s see: Went into the City, met Bill Clinton, saw an advance screening of the Spider-Man movie. Since this is kind of long, I’m continuing it below.

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