Well that's good. Fantastic. That gives us 20 minutes to save the world and I've got a post office. And it's shut!

A Game That Most Of My Readers Will Be Ineligible To Play

Now with video!

The rules are simple: Just bold the places you've actually been to.



I've been everywhere...

Well, I was humpin' my bluey on the dusty Oodnadatta road,
When along came a semi with a high and canvas-covered load.
(Spoken) "If you're goin' to Oodnadatta, mate, um, with me you can ride."
So I climbed in the cabin and I settled down inside.
He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand, I said
"Listen, mate, I've travelled ev'ry road in this here land."

Chorus:
Cos "I've been everywhere, man,
I've been everywhere, man.
'Cross the deserts bare, man;
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've had my share, man.
I've been ev'rywhere.

Been to:
Tullamore, Seymour, Lismore, Mooloolaba,
Nambour, Maroochydore, Kilmore, Murwillumbah,
Birdsville, Emmaville, Wallaville, Cunnamulla,
Condamine, Strathpine, Proserpine, Ulladulla,
Darwin, Gin Gin, Deniliquin, Muckadilla,
Wallumbilla, Boggabilla, Kumbarilla,
I'm a killer.

Chorus
(Spoken) "Yeah but listen here, mate, have you been to..."

I've been to Moree, Taree, Jerilderie, Bambaroo,
Toowoomba, Gunnedah, Caringbah, Woolloomooloo,
Dalveen, Tamborine, Engadine, Jindabyne,
Lithgow, Casino, Brigalow and Narromine,
Megalong, Wyong, Tuggerawong, Wanganella,
Morella, Augathella, Brindabella, I'm the feller.

Chorus
(Spoken) "Yeah, I know that, but have you been to..."

I've been to Wollongong, Geelong, Kurrajong, Mullumbimby,
Mittagong, Molong, Grong Grong, Goondiwindi,
Yarra Yarra, Boroondara, Wallangarra, Turramurra,
Boggabri, Gundagai, Narrabri, Tibooburra,
Gulgong, Adelong, Billabong, Cabramatta,
Parramatta, Wangaratta, Coolangatta, what's it matter?

Chorus
(Spoken) "Yeah, look that's fine, but how about..."

I've been to Ettalong, Dandenong, Woodenbong, Ballarat,
Canberra, Milperra, Unanderra, Captain's Flat,
Cloncurry, River Murray, Kurri Kurri, Girraween,
Terrigal, Fingal, Stockinbingal, Collaroy and Narrabeen,
Bendigo, Dorrigo, Bangalow, Indooroopilly,
Kirribilli, Yeerongpilly, Wollondilly, don't be silly.

Chorus
I've been here, there, ev'rywhere, I've been ev'rywhere.

(Spoken) "Okay, mate, you've been ev'ry place except one, and ya don't need my help t'get there."
(Sound of door slamming and truck driving off.)

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I've Been Wondering About That For 27 Years

The Seekers did take the melody for The Carnival Is Over from the Russian folk song Stenka Razin.

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Space Pirate Mito

This is the original show that spawned Aoi & Mutsuki as a sequel.  And based on the first episode, it's one of the best examples of late 70's anime I've seen.

Of course, it was made in 1999...

Silly but fun if you don't expect too much from it.

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Flash Gordon

Even on a limited budget, modern computer graphics can produce some amazing-looking spaceships and planetscapes.  Add a solid sense of 1930's retro-future design, lavish and imaginative costumes, a smartly written and slyly subversive script, and a talented cast who are in on the joke but play everything absolutely deadpan, and you have everything that's missing from this miserable pile of krep.

Not recommended.

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Request For Comments

Minx doesn't email you when new comments or private messages arrive.  It could - it would be easy to do - but I don't want to be sending out thousands (and eventually millions) of emails a day.  There are all sorts of problems with being a high-volume email source, and I'd rather simply not go there.

But it's very useful to be alerted to incoming comments (and private messages!) without having to visit your site every ten minutes.  So how else can this be achieved?

Well, there's RSS.  Minx already supports automatic RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds (and you can customise it to support other formats).  Why not add an RSS feed of comments?

Comments are public, so an RSS feed of them isn't an issue.  (Not true of private messages, but we'll get to that.)  But maybe you don't want everyone to see spam or unapproved comments.  Well, you can set up a hidden feed.  Or the system can do that automatically for you.  If your public comment feed is at http://mysite.mee.nu/feed/comments, and your private comment feed is at, say, http://mysite.mee.nu/feed/comments/aj69c0, you'd have to try an average of a billion combinations before getting access to someone's private comment feed. 

There would be a link in the editing interface so you could subscribe with one click, and easy-peasy, comment notification.

I could certainly do the same with private messages.  If you're sensitive about those and worried about that 1 in a billion chance, I can have an option where the RSS feed only shows the arrival of a new message, and not the sender or contents.

I could also do secured feeds, but that's more fiddly and many popular readers don't support them.

So, what do you think?

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Journeyman

Okay, so it's Tru Calling without the cute lead*, but after two episodes I'm sold:

What year is it?

I don't know.  My phone doesn't work here.

You're going to need an old phone.  You're also going to need expired currency, personal ID - and don't travel with citrus, it explodes.  I don't know why...

* Though the actress playing Olivia is pretty hot.**
** Actually "Livia", played by Moon Bloodgood.


See?

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You Can't CNAME A Zone

Damn.

One of the neat features of Minx is that it runs across multiple servers, and it doesn't matter which server you end up on - any site can be served by any server.

For mee.nu and mee.fm this works just fine; I just set up the DNS for those domains with multiple wildcards and I get round-robin load balancing for as many domains as my users create.

With mu.nu it's a little trickier, because I have a few hundred pre-existing zone files.  The easiest thing would be to change each zone file as I migrate the blogs, and CNAME that domain to mu.nu except for email.

Except that you can't do that.  I'm not sure exactly why it's forbidden, but it is indeed forbidden.  I can still create one or many A records to target the servers, but then I have the server IPs defined in a few hundred zone files, at least until the migration is complete and I can drop CPanel.

Hosting personal domains (non-mee/mu) is even worse.  Redirects will work, of course, but redirects are ugly.  Putting in the IP addresses will work too - until the IPs change.  Delegating your DNS to my servers will work, but then I have to look after a squillion zone files, and you can't easily point your email elsewhere unless I write a DNS management front end.

Bleh.

Anyone know of a better way to do this?

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