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The Brick Testament website has been updated
today with two new stories providing an illustrated account of the second and
third of Israel’s judges, Ehud and
Shamgar:
10,000 Moabites Killed
600 Philistines Killed
(NOTE: For anyone unfamiliar with The Brick Testament or the Bible, please take
note of the content warnings for the
stories before viewing.)
Also a note for any fans of The Brick Testament in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I will be doing an in-store book signing appearance tomorrow night, Friday March
18, at the
Borders
Books in Sunnyvale, CA, starting at 7pm. If anyone can make it, it would be
fun to see some friendly faces, so please stop by. And if you already have a
copy of The Ten Commandments (or Genesis or Story of Christmas) I’d be more than
happy to sign ‘em, so bring ‘em along!
Hope to see you there. :)
-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
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OK, it ended up being delayed for a month, but the San Jose Mercury News is
finally going to be running their story on The Brick Testament on Saturday,
November 22nd. Look for it in the Family & Religion section.
This latest flurry of media attention for the book seems to have given sales a
boost, and I saw that it's Amazon sales rank was in the 300's for the first time
last night. 335 was the best I saw, which meant it was beating out such books
as the latest collection from The Onion, and probably several other books that,
you know, people have actually heard of and stuff!
Thanks to everyone who's given the book their support!
-The Rev, Brendan Powell Smith
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
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Just wanted to give a heads-up for anyone in the SF Bay Area that there
will be an article on The Brick Testament in this Sunday’s (18 October
2003) edition of the San Jose Mercury News.
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--UPDATE!--
The San Jo Merc News alerted me today that this article has been postponed. I
also just noticed that I gave a conflicting date above. The article had been
scheduled for Saturday (tomorrow), but is now being delayed.
I’ll post here again when I get notified of the date it will actually run.
As a consolation, there’s some new US and foreign Brick Testament press on the
website’s Press page, including:
-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
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Just wanted to give a heads-up for anyone in the SF Bay Area that there will be
an article on The Brick Testament in this Sunday's (18 October 2003) edition of
the San Jose Mercury News.
An interviwer and photographer from the paper came by my house for an hour or so
last week, and it was one of the most fun interviews I've done so far, so I
expect the article will be a good read. Look for it in the Family & Religion
section.
-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
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FYI, the admins know about it, and the needed changes have already been
made to get the site back again, but the propogation of the changes may take
another day or two. :-(
If you are interested in the longer story, read on. Otherwise, go look for
a more interesting article somewhere else. ;-)
During the last month, a few things conspired, each threatening to take
the site off-line for a period of time...
1) The machine needed to move to a new hosting facility.
1a) The site we picked required us to install a new (rack-mount) server,
and the new hardware caused us to upgrade some of the software involved on
the server.
1b) The new site required us to change IP addresses on all of the server
records for that machine (30+ domains, including ours)
1c) The registrar for the primary domain was shifting it's users to a new
processes for changing info, which delayed changes for a few days (so all of
the other domains needed to wait for the first change to propogate...)
2) I left my job (and the machine had been hosted at my old company), so
they removed the DNS records for all of the domains sharing our server,
taking most of the domains off-line Sunday evening.
2a) Many of the domain owners are currently suffering the same
registrar-process-changes, so they were unable to update their domain
records with the new info.
2b) The old machine owner had been added to many of the domains when they
were moved to the server, so he spent most of Monday working with the
InterNIC folks to get most of the records changed.
2c) The main InterNIC root-server records were changed this morning at 9a
(PT), but may still take up to 48 hours for various proxy servers and
downstream caches to expire the old records and ask for the new info.
2d) Mail to some of the domains on the machine will also be off-line until
the caches time out and update. :-(
Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
-Zonker-
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