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Oh, by the way, my counterpart J has started a blog, with Day, documenting their efforts toward the erection of a new domicile. It’s at — where else? — j.rox.com.

We’ve been getting a little bit of “buzz” regarding our latest episode. Nice write-ups on Metroblogging, Three Bed Two Bath, and quite a few others. But the sweetest one is on Marathonpacks, which appears to be a kick-ass music blog. Thanks, y’all.
Update: A review, quite funny in its own right, at Adrastos.

Well, ROX #93 is finished at last. You can watch it online if you so desire.

Everyone says it’s dangerous to talk on the cell phone while driving a car. But what about doing e-mail while riding a bike?
I was riding down a fairly deserted strech of road this morning, and just for kicks I whipped out the crackberry — and sure enough there was a message for me:

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A tip of the hat to Joe Backwards-7. He came all the way from Boise, Idaho to do some massive re-plumbing work on the central post office here in New Orleans. He’s also a long-time fan of the show, and so he took Xy and David and I out for dinner at Tommy’s last night. [...]

A while back I got an angry message via the rox.com website. The writer demanded the immediate removal of “my image and any mention of me” from the website, and threatened legal action. The message was not signed, and the return e-mail address was obscure.
I wrote back and said I was sorry to hear it, [...]

Here’s a video clip [QuickTime, 17MB] of our evacuation from New Orleans.

Went home early yesterday, and took today off, because I’m just not feeling that great. Xy had a cold for three or four days earlier this week, and I’m afraid I’m coming down with it. My main symptom has been a sore throat — only it’s not my throat exactly but more the nasal passage [...]

I’m rooting for Grokster, of course, in the case being argued at Ye Olde Supreme Court today. I mention this mainly because I make use of the peer-to-peer Gnutella network for a “substantial noninfringing use” — namely, to distribute ROX videos.
I keep Acquistion running most of the time on my home computer. But I never [...]

Since Holy Thursday and Good Friday are staff holidays at the University, I decided to take Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as vacation days and make a week of it. I figured I’d use the time to wrap up production of ROX #91. Plus Xy & I planned a brief, one-night excursion to the Gulf Coast, [...]

Unexpected circumstances found me at the Fairmont talking to Ira Glass of This American Life.
“I really wanted to come see you talk tonight,” I told him. “I was just too cheap to buy a ticket. But my friend here” — I pointed to David — “broke up with his girlfriend last night, so he had [...]

I sent the following query to Computer Chronicles via the contact form on their website:

I am trying to research the question of the first television show broadcast on the Internet. I have found a number of references indicating Computer Chronicles went online in 1995. Is any more information available regarding this event? In particular, I [...]

I woke up at five o’clock this morning with an incredibly vivid dream fresh in my head. I haven’t had such a vivid dream in years. (Some to think of it, I haven’t even remembered any of my dreams for months.) It was a long and generally realistic dream, with some funny details, like Xy [...]

I recently became aware of a challenge to one of our main claims to fame, namely that ROX was the first TV series on the Internet.
When I was preparing for my talk at NOFCPUG I did a Web search that turned up a number of references to the Computer Chronicles as the first show on [...]

I gave a thirty-minute presentation about ROX tonight to the New Orleans Final Cut Pro Users Group. I was a little nervous ahead of time, but it went smoothly. I managed to tell the story without major omissions or blunders. There were only eight people there, but the real downer was that Brian Gary, who [...]

J just pointed me to this article on c|net, “Study: Broadband leaps past dial-up.” This means that for more people, watching video via internet will be easy, or at least less painful.
Maybe it’s finally time for the World’s First Internet Television Series to hit it big.

Had tea with the fabulous Heather Weathers at Bayou Coffee.
Painted the alcove off our hallway a bright blue. There’s actually a long story here, but I think I can boil it down to this: Xy tried to give the alcove a porcelain crackle finish this summer, and it didn’t work out, so I’m remediating.
I did [...]

Have you checked the ROX website lately? For heaven’s sake, why not? I’m adding lots of content; old stuff, mostly. It brings back memories.