From the Archives: Administrivia
1000 Gears is an open-ended experiment, a gift and a promise, a free and creative place for us to share and enjoy.
It's a virtual glass case for us to show off our polished little flashes of imagination. It's a late-night chat at a 24-hour-diner, where we can take things much too seriously until our thoughts crystalize into insights worth sharing. It's a soapbox blog, where you can stand up and rant about anything and everything - as long as you can be entertaining while you do it.
More than anything, it's a place we want to share with you.
January 2nd, 2008
So, yesterday, your friendly neighborhood Catboy (this is me) noticed that some nice people had written an upgrade to the software that makes 1000gears work. It was a fairly simple upgrade, but very important to the website, so he (me, again) put on a hardhat and took out a big box of tools and opened up the computer to put in all the appropriate parts. There is a whole lot of stuff in there! Actually the software is very well-behaved and upgraded with only one small problem to the comment system. Fortunately the patented Catboy Bonk on the Head™ made it behave even better and commenting should be working exactly as expected now.
We are very sorry if there anyone had problems in the meantime.
Thank you,
~Catboy! =^.^=
December 25th, 2007
Well, it is a present for most of you. I think perhaps that some of you will not want it.
Just in time for Christmas, Tanko has given her permission for us to post the first Tybalt pictures ever! She drew them for The Tears of Anael when it was published in the YaoiCon 2004 fiction anthology.
Tybalt is very pretty, but in these pictures he is also very naked! Please use your best judgement before you click on the story.
Thank you and Merry Christmas,
~Catboy! =^.^=
December 25th, 2007
Hello everyone!
This is Catboy again. Today I am here to wish you a merry Christmas. If you are part of a religion that celebrates Christmas in a religious way, I hope today is spiritually satisfying for you, and that you may carry feelings of hope, charity, love, and forgiveness throughout the coming year. If you celebrate Christmas as a secular sort of gift-exchanging holiday of togetherness and love, I hope that everybody adores the gifts that you bring to them, that you adore the gifts that people bring to you, and that you eat too much food (but only a little too much!) that is both tasty and nourishing. Of course many people celebrate Christmas in both ways, and to all of you, I wish you both kinds of happiness.
If you are a person who does not celebrate Christmas at all, then I wish you a very happy Tuesday. Everything will be back to normal tomorrow.
Thank you,
~Catboy! =^.^=
I think I have not forgotten anybody. If you feel that I have forgotten you, please leave a comment and I will wish you an appropriate happiness as quickly as I can.
November 22nd, 2007
With a little luck he will leave one more post to tide you over until his return. He says that he will check in periodically but definitely be back by the end of the month. This is not so very long in the grand scheme of things.
In the meantime I will try to make sure to approve all the comments in a timely way, and also to filter out spam as it may arrive.
Thank you,
~Catboy! =^.^=
November 5th, 2007
1000 Gears is live now, but not quite complete. I’m still doing a lot of back-end work, trying to get all the miscellaneous pages and code working, and this doesn’t give me much time to write. That said, I have a pretty large archive that I’ve left scattered across the Internet, so I’ll be posting new pieces every couple days.
In the meantime, if you’d like to help me with the debugging, feel free to comment anywhere. If you have questions for me, ask them in the comments here, and I’ll get to them as quickly as I can.
