We’re publishing! Our first public change, the index page for the 2005 webcast, was updated at around 5:30 this afternoon. Other pages are being linked in as soon as we can add them. Of course we’re getting anxious emails from people asking where the updates are.
We’re all working as fast as we can!
Except for me, I guess. Since I’m posting something here instead.
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Webcast Day Two… We’re up and running on the wilds of the Canadian Internet. Took a bit of doing though. This university has pretty tight web restrictions set up, mostly to cut off people who are running illegal peer-to-peer file sharing networks and to keep anyone from grabbing huge quantities of stuff off of the web.
So when we were setting up our local copy of the remote site, which involved setting up a local file sharing network and grabbing huge quantities of stuff off of the web, we triggered pretty much all of their automated defense systems, and got frozen out of their network.
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Yesterday after arriving for the Transplant games, Ellie (she’s the Transweb head honco) and I zipped over to a little campus print shop across from our lodgings to pick up the little yellow “Hi we’re Transweb” cards that we hand out during the games. While we were there, I spotted something we’re probably going to need, and which none of us thought to pack. An umbrella.
Of course, it wasn’t that difficult to spot it. It’s bright purple.
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