March 24, 2008
On to Nebraska!
My husband has business in Nebraska, so I am going along to catch the Platte River Sandhill Crane Migration. Back on the weekend!
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January 31, 2007
Into the Light
Virtual flowers and all best wishes to Molly Ivins as she goes. From the WILPF mailing list:
I'm sorry the news I bring is so dire, but many are wondering: Molly Ivins is indeed losing her fight with cancer. She's out of the hospital and back at home, on life support with organ failure. She is lucid some of the time, and spending her last hours with close friends and relatives.
She asks that no more flowers or cards be sent as she is overwhelmed, and certainly visitors are a burden at this point (she knows you are with her in spirit). Please send prayers, love, good wishes...
UPDATE: And now they are reporting that Molly has died. Fare thee well, you wonderful woman! You did good work.
UPDATE: The Texas Observer remembers Molly with incredible pictures and words.
UPDATE: Molly's last column: Stand Up Against the Surge
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January 27, 2007
Best wishes for Molly
Please join me in sending best wishes to Molly Ivins, who is gravely ill in her third bout with breast cancer.
I posted this quote of hers on Election Day this year, and it's so expressive of her spirit that I'm going to post it again and again. That was a good day for all of us, and I hope Molly enjoyed it too.
"So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was."
-Molly Ivins
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April 14, 2006
Well down
SAT A.M. Update: Even though the status page doesn't say so, picospan is back up. Engaged is not working yet. Afternoon last update: And Engaged is up now as well. Thus ends the Great Well Outage of 2006.
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In case anyone wanders by looking for info, yes The Well is down. I am getting through to the home page intermittently, and it has this message:
System Down
We are experiencing major problems, and all systems are down. We do not yet know when we'll be able to bring any systems up.
If you're desperate for a place to post, you're welcome to use the forums at World Turning. Heaven knows they're empy enough.
UPDATE: Gail posted this over at Table Talk:
We had a big system malfunction that took out all of the well.com services last night. Our team's working on it, but so far we don't have an estimated time for restoring functionality.
So, nothing new, but wolfy is working on it.
UPDATE: System status is being updated on this Salon page. The latest update says:
Fri Apr 14 15:11:09 2006 Update: We expect to have well.com email back by approximately 7:00 pm Pacific Time (19:00:00) this evening. We expect to have PicoSpan access to conferences back by 10:00 pm. Web services are expected to be restored sometimes tomorrow. The cause of the outage was pinpointed as a malfunction produced by preparations for an upgrade.
More Update: A few folks are posting over in well.general, the old usenet group. Others are chatting on flickr.
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