A story my wife pointed out to me yesterday was this one about the kid who earned an A for hacking his grades in the school computer (You have to read the story for it to make sense.) She pointed it out to me on CNN, but a quick peak at the super cool Google News Interface turned up that link in the San Jose Mecury News. n no longer leaves the air when there is no manpower to run it. On the one hand, you want to let the people who might have been turned off by that know that things are different. On the other hand, it's an admission of how bad things used to be. You don't get extra-credit for being on the air as a radio station - that's pretty much expected as baseline (unless of course you are a sunup to sundown AM like KQNK 1530 Norton KS, the station I first worked at.) So although the station has been on the air since April with only minor outages for transmitter issues like lightning strikes, that's not really something that can be publicized. I've been urging them to find other things to publicize, just to let it slowly seep back into the consciousness that the station exists, and let the listeners find out for themselves that things are much much better now.

Since I've been typing this, they switched from CD #14 to #15, and this one actually is pretty cool. It almost has a beat and a melody. It sounds a little like some of the noisy bits of Dark Side of the Moon.