Committed

Even as I type, the CD artwork for About Bleeding Time is wending its way through the bowels of ProAction Media on a chair in my office on its way to a rendezvous with me and my housefull of CD burners and fanatical minions on Monday. I will have disks to hand out at Baycon! This makes me a happy fractal bear, but it does mean that I'm going to be a bit busy during the coming 10 4 days.

( to do )

5/28 -- stick a fork in it.

Noted in passing

So it seems that Jerry Falwell died this morning. Far be it from me to speak ill of the dead.

But if the afterlife he so fervently believed in really exists, I hope he has taken up residence in the appropriate section of it.

Not having a good day

The pre-printed disks for About Bleeding Time are in process. I found out when the proof came back that I'd sent them an older version of the artwork, minus the cool HyperSpace Express logo and link to the (currently nonexistent) HyperSpace Express website. Approved it anyway -- I'll put the logo on the insert, and the site isn't up yet anyway. One less thing to do before Baycon.

Spent wasted the entire rest of the day trying to make a cd-extra -- that's a two-session disk with audio in the first session and a CD-ROM data file in the second session. Doing it the documented way from the command line gives me a CD-ROM that appears to be empty. (See my post in linux for details if you think you can help.)

Nero for Linux writes a CD-ROM with directories but no file contents. I was pretty impressed that it even existed, but it's clearly seriously broken. Just as well -- you can only use it from the GUI, so it would be a major disruption of my script-heavy workflow. Not only that, the GUI is annoying and clumsy -- there aren't any keyboard shortcuts for adding a file to the disk, there's no way to get CD text from a file, and the audio tracks all default to copy-protected. Blerg.

Tomorrow I may make an attempt to use k3b; otherwise I'll just fall back to a CD-ROM with audio tracks, which I know works.

This is not a happy bear.