“Heavy rotation”

Oh hey look “The Burke-Gilman Troll” is on “heavy rotation” at Highlander Radio:

If you are a Celtic Radio Network listener – which means Highlander Radio, or Celt Rock Radio, amongst others – please, please, go request a track. Also maybe drop in some 5-star ratings, eh? It will really help.

I used to work in radio and even if it’s different when it’s streaming instead of broadcast – I don’t even know what it means in a streaming context – it’s still pretty cool to hear see words “heavy rotation” applied to my band. Particularly when it’s a paying site. MONEY IS FLOWING TO THE ARTIST. By which I mean fractions of pennies. BUT STILL.

Also, it’s kinda neat to be on the same list as Flogging Molly and Young Dubliners. :D

So, yeah! Go make a request, would you? Thanks!

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can’t make it to san diego?

Can’t make it to San Diego? C’mon out to the party on the peninsula! Clallam Bay Comicon is this weekend, out in Clallam Bay, and it’s more or less a geek party, including hours – no, really, hours – of fireworks on the beach. And by that I do in fact mean actual fireworks, not an old-timey euphemism for sex.

The whole thing is Donna Barr’s fault; it started as a party in her front yard. This year, there’s actually a GoH and an actual con hotel, by which I mean con B&B. It’s booked up, but there are other hotels which… are likely also full, because it’s Clallam Fun Days. But there’s camping! And the weather is supposed to be good. And being out in Clallam Bay, attending memberships are free.

But even leaving aside the parade – we’re in it – and beach party, the basics are there. Track programming during the afternoons, a tiny gaming room, a dealer’s den, apparently a couple of room parties, stuff like that. No official cosplay yet, but I’m pretty sure the parade will make up for that.

I have a concert on Saturday at 4pm, and some panels on Sunday; Anna is doing a self-publishing/small-press panel at 1pm on Saturday, even if it’s not on the schedule yet. I had a breakthrough on “Everybody’s Famous (at the NSA)” last night and I’m definitely going to do my best to stumble through that on stage. Also “Getting Away With It” and “Thirteen” and I’m still trying to finish another thing. Sadly, I’m almost certainly not doing “We’re Not Friends,” which despite the title, is super upbeat, and is still super-unfinished. I’m not used to writing upbeat, it’s hard. XD

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wow, nook is totally committing suicide

B&N is shuttering Nook in every location except the UK and US. Meanwhile, even here, Anna discovered that Barnes and Noble’s new website only talks to Internet Explorer on Windows. Nothing else will let her log in. If you look at the code, it seems to be testing for IE versions then throwing some obsfucated JavaScript code at you that doesn’t work on anything but recent Explorer.

For the record, Internet Explorer is currently about 12% of web traffic.

Interestingly, if I tell Safari to ID itself at IE 8 or 9, I can get a login box. It’s throwing different code in those cases. Identifying as IE 10 creates the same behaviour as the Safari user agent string. There are also some reports that for other people – at least some percentage of users – it works on Chrome on Windows. But it’s definitely not working here, tonight.

This is crazy. They’ve locked out as much as 88% of potential customers in North America. It doesn’t work on any Safari, including mobile. It doesn’t work on any version of Chrome, or Firefox, that Anna can find to test.

This is amazing. And once you do manage to get logged in, all you get really is a tile-display of books you’ve bought and no option to download them or anything – the links just go to those books’ sales pages. It’s a disaster.

I hope Kobo buys their Nook customer base soon, like they did with Sony. Amazon needs some sort of ePub competition. Nook clearly doesn’t want to be it.

eta: Apparently some people can log in on various shades of Chrome on Windows, but it’s inconsistent. Anna was able to log in on Safari on Macintosh this morning – for a while.

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