If we are to believe all the WikiLeaks 'Cables' are true documents, then there should be some pretty big outrage that the report of three Qatari men that provided support for the alleged hijackers did not show up in the official 911 Commision report.

Interestingly, the official 911 commission website appears unresponsive at the time of this posting.

The last known cached version of the report is stored at archive.org

 2/2/2011; 8:46:04 PM.   .

Dave sent me a link to a changelog he wrote for a group he was testing the scripting2 system with. This really opened up some powerful features of the system to me. The first is the Linkblog, which is called Liveblog in the system. It creates an outline that listens to a bookmarklet and adds the link and page title to the outline. Precisely what I needed for building my show prep outline! This will save me an hour of time a day and my wrist. Instead of copying the page title, pasting that into an outline, then copy pasting the url into the node in the outline, I just click on the bookmarklet. Win!

Here's my first try.

Next is the standalone page. This is beautiful, as it is based on an outline that is rendered seprately from the blogposts. I can even decide if I want the nodes of the outline expanded or collapsed.

This is my first test of shownotes with the nodes collapsed.

Due to the nature of the shownotes, which sometimes go 3 levels deep, it would be great to be able to tell the renderer only to expand 2 levels deep. Looks like this is a function of the stylesheet. Not my field of expertise sadly.

 2/2/2011; 6:18:10 PM.   .

Pretty soon the entire industry will actually really, really be dead and gone:

MusicWeek: "EMI has been sold to its major creditor, US bank Citigroup, raising questions about a possible sell off of parts or the whole of the company."

To put the industry into perspective, the anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor outsold the US music business in 2009.

Film legend Francis Ford Coppola recently made a very astute comment about the state of the creative industry:

"You have to remember that it's only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere, or the church, the pope. Or they had another job. I have another job. I make films. No one tells me what to do. But I make the money in the wine industry."

 2/2/2011; 3:54:54 PM.   .

For the past few weeks, many listeners of the No Agenda Show from Gitmo Nation Lowlands have experienced problems when attempting to download the mp3 files from Mevio's content delivery network. The problems started with the delivery of episode 271 from December 16th 2010. After a lot of research we have concluded the following:

Mevio switched to a new DNS provider on December 15th.

Mevio Switched to a new Content Delivery Network provider around the same time period

This combination has resulted in a perfect storm (my opinion) that is not a simple fix from one point in the chain. It also may not be anyone's fault per se.

What does appear to have happened, and this may not be isolated to The Netherlands, is that one or multiple ISP's have 'stale' DNS info and continue to direct requests for Mevio's media servers to the old CDN. Tracking this was complicated by the fact that the old CDN continued to serve files after the DNS and CDN switch were made. It appears that at least one ISP: xs4all.nl still has stale DNS data.

There are a few steps you can take to fix this problem. One is local to your machine, the other is the most important fix, and that is convincing your provider there is a problem.

Locally, you can try to manually fix the problem by first 'flushing' your local DNS information. On Windows you do this by selecting Run.. from the start menu and entering the following: ipconfig /flushdns and clicking on OK. On a Mac, open up your Terminal program and type the following: dscacheutil -flushcache and hit Enter.

If this doesn't result in your ability to download the mp3 files, you can configure your computer's DNS information to DNS servers that are known and tested to work properly. I am not a fan of Google, but their DNS resolves properly, and you should consider at least trying to retreive the mp3 files using their DNS servers temporarily. Instructions can be found here.

If either of these steps results in your ability to download files again, the most important step is to convince your ISP that there is a problem with the DNS they are serving to their customers. I know several of you have already tried to do this without result. Pointing them to this blog post may help.

Please post in your results in the comments below so we can track progress publcily.

Comment

 2/2/2011; 3:53:00 PM.   .

OK, everyone deserves a second chance :)

 2/2/2011; 3:48:19 PM.   .

This is my first post. I hope it worked!

 2/2/2011; 3:44:13 PM.   .