I was forced into another WordPress upgrade this week. My hosting provider upgraded their version of PHP and recommended upgrading into a version of WordPress that was apparently hacked, so I had to upgrade again. I hadn’t ever really done much of a blogroll in the past, so I’m rolling it out now. Check those people out. They’re good stuff.
DoneWaiting posted a bunch of day party lineups overnight.
Most notably:
Update: Even better, Austin360 / The Statesman has a huge listing of the day parties. As they point out, most of these don’t require that you have a wristband.
I just got the text message from SXSW.
Waterloo Records (NW corner of 6th and Lamar) is selling SXSW wristbands as of right now. 2 per person. Cash or credit cards.
Don’t kill anyone on the way down there.
The Statesman tends to be a punching bag around here and, with headlines like this one found on the front page yesterday, they’re going to have a hard time shaking that perception. They’re now inventing words just like the current President that we inflicted on the world.
I’m not sure which language they’re using for this headline, but Webster tells me that “minicity” isn’t a word in the English language. The online version of the article repeats the mistake. I’m too lazy to take a screen shot in case they change it. Who knows if they’ll correct it, but Google helpfully suggests that maybe I meant “mini city” when I did a search. It doesn’t stop them from presenting the Statesman article as the second hit on the search for the word.
Wow. I just saw the news on Statesman and News8Austin that Dennis Johnson, coach of the NBA Development League Austin Toros, died today at the age of only 52.
Anybody my age remembers DJ as point guard for the Celtics. I’d been meaning to get down to the Convention Center and check them out, especially with DJ at the helm. I guess I’ve missed my chance. My condolences to his family and the team.