Tube City Almanac

October 02, 2006

Important Announcement

Category: default || By jt3y

We all know, now, that the Internet is not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And it's clear to everyone now that these Internet tubes are just going to keep becoming larger and larger.

In fact, Dr. Pica Pole, director of the Tube City Online Research Laboratory, predicts that soon Internet tubes will be as large as the Squirrel Hill Tunnel, connecting computers with upward of 50,000 transistors each that are capable of reading up to 800 80-column punch cards per minute. (Dr. Pica Pole has been hitting the sauce pretty heavily.)

Because of this, I've been considering adding some more ... er ... well, commercial activities to the website, as well as multimedia. Right now, Tube City Online is stuck in 1996, design-wise. I suspect I'll be dragging it all the way up to, say, 1999. Maybe January 2000.

Since the Dementia server --- where Tube City Online has been hosted for free for all of these years --- isn't a commercial server, this all means I need to seek commercial webhosting. High school classmate Tom Schroll, currently operating a small webhost company called Skymagik Internet Services, has agreed to start hosting Tube City Online.

That means I had to select a URL for the site. After thinking about it for upwards of 10 seconds, tubecityonline.com was purchased. (Don't bother visiting it just yet --- there's just some things up there for testing purposes only.)

What does this mean to you, our loyal if not particularly interested reader?

Very soon, pages currently hosted at mckeesport.dementia.org are going to be duplicated at tubecityonline.com. Then, many web addresses at mckeesport.dementia.org will start redirecting to addresses tubecityonline.com. (The Almanac will land at www.tubecityonline.com/blog, for instance.)















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Eventually, you are going to have to update any links you have to the Almanac and other features, but not just yet.

And what types of spiffy new features do we envision? Well, I mentioned audio. Some of you know that I dabble in local radio. Here's a little something I put together for a show two weeks ago. (You'll need to have Quicktime installed.)






Your Comments are Welcome!

Gilbert Gottfried lives!
Otherwise, I can’t wait for Radio Free McKeesport.
another would-be pirate broadcaster - October 03, 2006



If Gilbert Gottfried were alive today, he’d say …

Oh, wait, he is alive today.

AFLAC!
Webmaster (URL) - October 03, 2006



A neighbor gave me the blog,which we got a big laugh out of, that Park Burroughs-editor of the Observer-Reporter had posted about me and my needing info for the HOMELESS SHELTER-IHN[Washington] that is TRYING, quite unsuccessfully, to come to Pleasant Hills. I had contacted him, hoping for unbiased opinion- [how wrong of me to think as an editor,he would be un-biased. After he was not forthright with me and I called him on it, he verbally attacked me.I guess since THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER let him go for writing one too many martian baby stories, it’s made him a little testy. Poor thing-
bonnie veraldi - October 05, 2006



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