TrustFlow results for mdlbear

NOTE: this meme tries to make up a post for you. Make sure you check the posting time, or you could end up posting from the wrong timezone! This confuses LJ and may cause subsequent posts to require backdating. OTOH it may simply be due to a server with a bad date; it is no longer possible for me to tell for sure.
(From capplor) here's another variant on "who's close to my friends", this time usingt TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for mdlbear are close by:

• wcg, jhayman (300 - 350)
• katyhh, shannachie, bardling (350 - 400)
• smallship1, trystel, fleetfootmike, oreouk (400 - 450)

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TrustFlow II: Who is closest to your friends list?

In case you were wondering...

... why I just added you to my friends list, it's almost certainly because you turned up on one or both of these lists of people who aren't on my friends list, but that are "close" by one measure or another. I won't feel bad if you don't friend me back; my friends list is mostly just a reading list.

Unlike some people, I have no reason (or excuse) to be shy about putting my real name in my LJ -- I'm Steve Savitzky, and you're most likely to know me (considering who's on my flist) from my filk songs.

This ends today's public service announcement; we now return you to your regularly scheduled web addiction.

Loscon Contact Information

At the moment, the only contact information for Loscon on the web can be found here in the archived website of Loscon 32. Since all the email addresses are generic, there's a pretty good chance they're forwarded to the right people, though of course there's no way of knowing in all cases. "Programming" is known to work.

Meanwhile, people in search of information about Loscon can try posting on the loscon community; maybe if we all do it the helpful folks there will prod the webmaster into finishing the site updates that were apparently started a couple of weeks ago.

Note to webmasters: Never leave a site in an unuseable or semi-useable condition. No matter what horrendous, gnarly upgrade you're trying to do, make sure that:

• All the old links continue to work. If last year's convention was www.loscon.org/32/, then make sure that www.loscon.org/33/ works this year, even if all you do is copy the old site and slap an "under construction" on the front page.
• Start with the event date, and hotel, and all of the current contact information. Make sure that's on the web and useful, even before the other info on the front page. That's what people are looking for on your website; if they can't find it, they're going to post rants in their blogs.
• Never let the understandable desire to have a pretty site with all the latest bells and whistles get in the way of having a useful site. People didn't come to your website to look at the blinkenlights; they came for information. If they can't find it, you're going to lose members/customers/eyeballs/whatever, and possibly be the subject of rants that will haunt you for years on Google.

That ends the second of today's Public Service Announcements; it's time for this old Bear to trundle off to work.

Open Source Disaster Management

SAHANA | Free and Open Source Disaster Management System

Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

(From Groklaw.)

Sahana was developed in Sri Lanka (that's where .lk is, in case you were wondering) in response to the tsunami of 2004, and was deployed after just two weeks of development. If you need it, and I damned well hope you never do, you can have it up and running on Linux or Windows in half an hour or so.

Track: "Silk and Steel"

OK, so the current version of Demon Lover could still use some work, especially on the guitar part underneath cflute's verses. It sounds a little out of sync, now that I've listened closely. (Other ears welcome; mine are old and decrepit.)

But I think that this mix of Silk and Steel came out pretty darned well. cflute, do I still need to bring your voice up a little?