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So, let’s handle some questions I’ve gotten via e-mail over the past week:

• Did the server transition thingy happen? Yes. What’s more, it appears to have worked like expected.
• What’s with the spam? Good question. Apparently when they transitioned us over to the new server and new version of Moveable Type, they nuked something that was keeping the spam at bay. We’re in the process of redeploying whatever those countermeasures were.
• Are you going to get your lazy butt back to work at some point? Yes, but not this week. I have a new project at home keeping me from loitering about Jones Street for the moment.

Of course, all that doesn’t mean I’m completely tuned out. A few notes before I go back to mixing formula:

I was wondering when I saw this bill (similar bill here) why exactly Guilford County was on the list. Jonathan Jones got my answer. Allen had more to say about the idea.
• My Friend and colleague Kerra Bolton, late of the Asheville Citizen Times, is going off to flac for the state Democratic Party.

• A visitor from Raleigh is coming to town later this week. Sen. Jujla Boseman is the keynote speaker for the Triad Business and Professional Guld Dinner this Thursday, March 15.The event will be held at the PTI Airport Marriott. For more information www.triadguild.com.

• Presidential candidate John Edwards will be rallying on Tuesday at Bennett College.

• The NCTA is holding a news conference tomorrow at 11 a.m. concerning “A Declaration By The MEMBERS Of The North Carolina Technology Association, The 21st Century Student.” (That was all done up in fancy script in the e-mail.) Whatever it turns out to be, I’m sure there will be no over-wrought hyperbole. (Reminder: Audio links for listening to things at the legislature live, including the news conference room, can be found here.

Okay, talk amongst yourselves. I’ll check back in later.