Today's band of the day is James Kochalka (Superstar). He's a cartoonist and a musician and generally a brilliant freak. His music is lo-fi and so is his cartooning, and I love it all. One of my first act of unauthorized behind the scenes machinations with the WREK automation was to add Kochalka's song "Monkey vs. Robot" into it. Here is his MP3.com download page. for you.

I spoke too soon on that Arin stuff yesterday. Today, they switched over the other server, so I was back to implementing the new parsing All At Once in a Big Hurry. I got it done, though. I really have to rewrite this crappy whois proxy thing that the script is based around - something my boss downloaded from somewhere.

Dragon*Con starts on Friday. I'll probably swing by downtown Thursday night and pick up the registration stuff while it is relatively easy. That way I can leave work early on Friday and just waltz in. If I'm not on any panels, I'll pick the events I want to attend, budget myself a few hours for the dealers room, an evening to wander around parties, and not attend the rest of the time. I originally was telling my wife that I couldn't do anything that weekend but now I'm changing my mind. We might go to Rome to visit some kinda-kin of hers. Or maybe not.