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I’ll be away from the office until Saturday, December 27, but I’m scheduling posts to appear throughout that time to ensure you’ve got your daily dose of random. Have a good break everyone, and apologies in advance if your comments go unanswered or unmoderated, I’ll get to them as soon as I can!

I’ll be in Ohio at a nephew’s wedding from Friday afternoon through Sunday evening, so talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic:

The original Human Torch was neither human nor an actual torch.

Discuss.

Just a heads-up that I’ll be out all day working the election for Burnet County, so be super to each other. Or something.

Massive apologies to everyone for the Epic Fail over the last three days of the site. Suffice it to say, everything’s working now, with one small change — you once again can only vote on each poll once. I think that’s basically what was hosing the site, combined with the massive failure of the MySQL servers from my host. The latter issue either contributed to, caused, or hid the previous one, otherwise I’d have had it all back up much sooner.

Thanks to Ryan C. at DreamHost.com for finally calling me and hipping me to what the problem was. Hopefully we can get back to normal around here now.

I’m headed to New York City to meet with the UGO guys and talk about HeroMachine stuff in a couple of hours. This means I might be a bit late deciding the contest winner for this week on Tuesday, although I’ll try to schedule a new caption image to publish while I’m away.

Hopefully I’ll have some program-related news to relay when I return on Wednesday.

Just as a note, everything I post this week (except for the Improv Comic yesterday and the caption contest winner from last week) will be related in some way to Rob Liefeld. You may leave your feet at the door.

This doesn’t have anything to do with HeroMachine, comics, or super-heroes, but it is random, which has practically become the theme of this blog anyway. GMail has this feature where they put up brief headlines over your email inbox, and this appeared just a few minutes ago:

I couldn’t figure out why they would single out this gentleman in particular as a cracker, since I don’t usually think of either GMail or the English as racial profilers. But then I actually clicked on the link and discovered they were talking about a hacker who cracks code. Whew!

I don’t think anyone noticed, but I didn’t publish a “Monday Mashup” last week or today in favor of exploring the “Comic Book Improv” concept instead. So I’d like to take this chance to get your thoughts on the whole Mashup experiment. Was it good, bad, or indifferent? Would you like to see it return, or stay blissfully dead? If you want it to come back, what did you like or dislike about it?

I’m heading out of town to Louisiana for a wedding (not mine!) today, returning Sunday. I’ve got a number of posts scheduled to go up so by all means check in as usual, but if I’m slow responding to comments, that’s why.