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The material contained herein is by Brian Cudiamat, unless otherwise noted. Submissions to news.sweetgoodness.org by any means including but not limited to email or postal delivery become the property of news.sweetgoodness.org (and, in turn, Brian). Material here may be used by individual people for personal use only. Permission to link to the website and to use related content, images, etc., is granted. Please recognize the awesomeness of sweet goodness! Some exceptions may apply. For other purposes, please e-mail. I don't think I'll have a problem. I just like to know, that's all.

Who is responsible for this madness?

The man behind the curtain is Brian. He has a link to his personal web presence in the bottom left-hand corner of each web page. That little image was something he created back in the college days. It's his web banner, created with highlighters, markers, an index card, and a vision. Thank you, University Housing, for bringing in scanners to the computer labs that year. The memories, they'll last a lifetime. To contact Brian regarding this website, please mail "news" at sweetgoodness.org. To contact Brian, you can stalk his email elsewhere in the sweetgoodness family of websites.

What types of stuff is newsworthy for [ news @ sweetgoodness ]?

That's a very interesting question. Basically, whatever Brian sees fit. For maximum value, enjoyment, and entertainment, I would recommend actually knowing Brian. Whatever content you find here will definitely add to that experience and also facilitates the dissemination of Brian related information and interests to those that care enough to visit this website.

When is this website updated?

Clicking reload or refresh constantly all day is not necessary at all. Any content Brian makes available throughout the day will only be posted on the website at 6am or 6pm daily (US Central Time). New content is added to a month's respective archive page at the same time as its first appearance on the main news page. (Exception: a month's archive page is not created on the first of the month; it is created on the second.) The 6am and 6pm updates to the page are known as the morning and evening edtions, respectively, although no new content may necessarily be posted for any given edition. The timings of any changes are subject to change, or may be altered if maintenance is being performed on the news website. The currents page will only usually contain only the twenty-five most recent postings.

Where does the magic happen?

That all depends on your definition of magic. The content comes from whereever Brian is when he types this stuff. As far as where the physical bits of data are kept and manipulated into what you see is beyond Brian, basically, because he doesn't care to find out. But it works. But Brian does do a lot of typing either at work or at home. Go figure.

Why do you have a meta expires tag of August 31, fifty billion years ago?

Actually, it's not fifty billion years ago. But the timestamp does have some sort of significance. Also, Brian doesn't want to have news webpages cached in random places on the internet and hopes this will inspire those cached copies to expire. That, and Brian is too lazy to set up no-visit meta tags. Easy fix? Whatever.

How does this actually work?

Brian, to prove that he still knows how to do _something_ wrote this hacked together c-shell script that the cron daemon runs twice daily. It checks to see if there are any postings scheduled to be put online and does that if necessary. It also regenerates the current month's archive file and deletes any older postings that have already been archived or older current postings to maintain the level of only twenty recent postings on the currents page. All and all, it only took maybe two full fledged hours at a terminal to write and test. But Brian did think about it a lot. He wanted to have a forum where he could tell people about his random stories, much like the days of yore (2002) when he had weekly updates of life at this very same website, but did not want to be bound to updating at a regular interval nor having content hosted at a third-party website. So there you go.