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Donation drive is over - many thanks to all who donated. When I put up the banner, I was not expecting much - maybe a few $10 hits - but everyone has once again outdid my expectations. Thank you everyone!
- --ShadowWolf 17:20, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
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Just noticed that the two really custom tags used on Shifti had completely borked. And both are my own product! Turns out that the fine people behind the MediaWiki engine went and changed the extension-tag hooking API completely. Sorry for having bitched (however privately and to myself) about the lack of incoming donations. Mea Culpa.
- --ShadowWolf 00:17, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Enough time has passed for all the comments to dry up on the "memorial" Talk: page for Michael Bard. And enough time has passed that spammers are once more pointing their bots at us. Anon stuff once more shut down.
- --ShadowWolf 23:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Sometime after noon on Thursday, April 1, 2010 the case fan, PSU and southbridge cooler in Shifti's webserver died. It took several days for all the replacement parts to arrive and took me several days to get the data backed-up so I could put a more functional OS on the machine. With the data now finally restored, Shifti is back and hopefully this time things will work for many long years.
- --ShadowWolf 12:41, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
- Well... I am going to have to shut the machine down to move it into its final position, but...
- --ShadowWolf 12:50, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
According to the most recent reports available, Michael Bard had a stroke at work sometime Friday night. He's been in the ICU since then and the doctors say there is minimal electrical activity in his brain. They are not sure if he is in a coma or a "persistent vegetative state" and say the only way to find out is to take him off life support. That is planned for Monday Morning.
Should this go the worst possible way - that he is unable to survive without the life support - then we will all mourn his passing. In the mean-time anonymous editing has been temporarily re-enabled so people can leave memorial messages and such on his talk page.
- --ShadowWolf 04:33, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
- As noted on his talk page, do not write off Bard as dead yet. From the latest available news he was down for four hours before being found, so it is quite likely that he still has enough autonomic function to keep going.
- --ShadowWolf 08:13, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
- And with good news comes bad. There was some swelling of the brain, but they relieved the pressure Friday and the swelling has stopped. When they shut down the life support machines he resumed breathing on his own. But still the doctors say that the prognosis is "Not Good".
- --ShadowWolf 17:06, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
ShadowWolf hasn't put it here himself, so I'm going to - Robotech Master, one of our users here, is one of the column writers for an e-book blog called TeleRead.org. Just recently, he conducted a interview with ShadowWolf which goes into some details as to the nature of Shifti as a publication project, and possible implications of the future of Internet publishing and the role sites like Shifti might play. It's a pretty interesting read; go check it out!
--Viqsi 18:21, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
- It's true, I completely forgot to mention it :(
- In other news that article shows one of the many new uses for Google Wave. And if there are any Shifti users that are looking to get into Wave, just let me know and I'll try to get an invite out to you.
- --ShadowWolf 22:49, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
