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Monday, May 26
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A group that we'll call "Mountain View Legion of Decency" (MVLD) has decided that at least one of the images that was included in our " Shirtless Hunks " gallery was, well... not what they consider decent. Their decisions on these matters are final and not something that can be appealed. Unfortunately for us, what they think makes a difference because the outfit has something frightfully close to monopoly control over small web sites like ours. It means they can come awfully close to shutting us down. We doubt that anything we do will make a difference to MVLD, but -- just...
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Wednesday, January 30
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I guess it was the flu that's had me totally knocked out for most of the past two weeks. The site has certainly suffered while I wandered through that odd feverish state. Today, for the first time in almost two weeks, I'm finally starting to feel like getting back to normal is at least possible. Even now, though, I'm a bit reluctant to post even this note. It's not just physical strength that I have to get back, but also concentration. I think what you'll see here for the next couple of days is a slow rebuilding of the sections of the site. And yes... It's all come along...
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Monday, January 14
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Now that all the move-out/move-in stuff is mostly behind me, I'm able to address a few beta issues that have been on my mind for all-too long. A change just implemented should give users an easier link to the various "ticker" posts that are included here. On the front page, you'd see them under "Qdo" or "Qticker" showing only a headline that links directly to the source blog. But a surprisingly large number of folks get directed by search engines to one of our internal pages that are mostly there just to supply the data for those home page headlines. Oddly...
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Tuesday, January 08
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A note about the delay that close readers of this site might have noticed. As I hinted in my last post here, I've been going through apartment issues. I essentially had to move out of my apartment in late November and stay away from it through much of December. All that to give the landlord an opportunity to do about four days' worth of work in the place to repair some issues that they'd refused to fix when it happened. So... In November, with very little notice, I had to move out. I spent the first two weeks of December in Montana. I've been back in Seattle since December 14, but...
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Saturday, November 24
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I hope it hasn't been too obvious from the site's contents that I've been busy with things for a couple of weeks that have forced my focus away from this site. Just in case, I posted a cryptic note on the home page: Notice: Updates to this site will continue to be somewhat sporadic for the next several days because of an unanticipated non-web requirement. The non-web requirement? After months of negotiation about what the management of the building I've lived in for 23 years was going to do about several items of neglected maintenance (Like, say, big cracks above windows from the...
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Saturday, November 03
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A special-edition Q-Ticker that appeared on the home page for the past few days. It tracked the flurry of blog posts and news items about La Center's Dick Curtis and his romp in Spokane with Cody Castagna (and at least one other). Fun, but that's all done with now. Curtis resigned. Nothing more to see here, folks. Move along. The blog cosmos has complied. So we've removed the ticker. The format of the thing was a bit awkward because it was a rush job, but it was a great example of the power of this platform. While the news was hot, I could set up a way to track breaking blog items and...
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Sunday, October 28
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Big deal here today (for me and for this site, anyway -- very minor thing otherwise): I paid for a license to the software that is running this site, stretching my CC way farther than I should, but... [sigh]. That means that it's been one month since I embarked on the actual hammer-to-the-virtual-nail part of this project that I've been thinking about for much longer. And I'll admit to some shocking schedule slip (even though I didn't actually write down a schedule). Assign part of the blame to the appallingly bad documentation offered for Community Server . I still run up against...
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Saturday, October 27
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I don't really know if anyone has subscribed to the RSS feeds for either Qblog or Qnews. If you have, however, the location of the feeds has changed. For those two blogs, I've switched over to a FeedBurner -powered version of the feed. I delayed a bit on that because there are some disadvantages to go along with the advantages of using Feedburner. In the end, however, I've decided that the advantages win out. I'm not sure what will happen with the locally generated RSS or Atom feeds. My guess is that the system will keep on producing them. I'll figure that out in a moment, but...
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Wednesday, October 24
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I'm still plugging away at things, but I'm depressed today about the prospects for this project. The site has been virtually unusable today because it's been sooo slow to respond. I've seen the condition all-too-often before, but I had continued to hope that the slowdowns were only the inevitable glitches that virtually all shared web host occasionally experience. Alas, that doesn't seem to be the case. It's now painfully obvious that this application -- Community Server -- doesn't work on this host -- DiscountASP.net. The problem, right now, is that I have no way to...
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Sunday, October 21
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I'm not going to point here to the particular post in question, but I'm still red-faced after having to correct a particularly bone-headed mistake I recently made in a post at Qblog. I misapplied and exec-director's name to the wrong organization. I did the post in haste when I was tired and concerned about some dev issue here on the site. But the mistake is made. Dumb. I did something I try not to do in posts -- here or at blog.ttca.org -- of changing a significant detail of a post. I did it in this case because the post is coming up in one of the "feature box" collections...
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Saturday, October 20
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If enough people were aware of this place to ask any kind of question about it, I suspect that one of the first would be that one. My basic answer: "However you want to pronounce it, as long as you talk about it." But, really, that's not yet likely, so I'll offer this suggestion: It sounds like the name of the sequoia tree but with a "kyou" instead of a "kwoi". So it's kind of this in my Montana accent (although, of course, I don't have an accent): se-KYOU-uh . And why pick that? Well, it's tough to get domain names these days. The one I wanted...
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Saturday, October 20
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Just to memorialize things: This was the "Welcome" message that we had up on the home page since we opened up the preview: Welcome! You've wandered upon a preliminary version of a new information source for gay/queer Seattle. What will this become? It's mostly happening in the background right now, but this site will soon become your source for information about gay Seattle. What you're seeing on this page now is only hint of what the site will become when we officially release it, but we'll try to open things up so you can watch the site develop. What the page looks like...
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Monday, October 15
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The flakey service I've been using for the news items on the home page and in Qnews flaked out completely today, so I've moved to a temporary solution of posting items directly onto the Qnews blog. I've been posting items to my Blinklist account with a specific tag that identifies the list. Unfortunately, Blinklist went down for the count this morning. And, frankly, that's the last flake-out that I have the patience for. For now, therefore, I'll post the items directly here with a first line linking to the source. That's not ideal, but I'm in the process of creating...
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Friday, October 12
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There's currently a welcome message at the bottom of this site's home page that indicates a bit about what I'm up to here. It's all more about hope right now rather than anything else. I hope that the site --when it's ready for public release -- will attract readers, especially readers who will contribute to the site with comments to blog posts and their own posts in our unfiltered Qyou blog . I hope that this site becomes a genuine local resource for gay folk in Seattle and for visitors dropping by the area. I hope that the site will attract enough active readers that we could...
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Saturday, September 29
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I've added posts to the Qblog by borrowing from my existing blog at blog.ttca.org . Once this site is ready for release, the ttca blog will be retired. Until that happens, however, I'll keep posting there and mirroring the posts here in Qblog. What with the preparations for this site, I'll be as slow as I've been for the past few months at adding items, but please don't hesitate to nudge me with an email to suggest@seaqwa.com . I find it difficult to ignore an email reminding me that I've forgotten to cover something that really belongs in the blog. I realize, by the way...
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