I’ve been adding things to this site on my home server (gotta love Mac OS X, with its built-in Apache web server and PHP, and easy-to-add mysql). I’ve got a search feature working, and I’ve added some personal info. I’ll transfer it up to my webhost (Hosting Matters, if that interests you) pretty soon.

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There seem to be hardly any Mac users among square dancers. If there were, it would be way cool to put square dance calendars up as subscribable iCal calendars.

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I need to go back and edit the links to various rec.folk-dancing threads. In the two years that have passed since I wrote regularly, all of the usenet newsgroups archives have transferred from deja to Google Groups. There have been some interesting threads in the past few months, including this one, “What Is MWSD?”, which developed when someone couldn’t find any descriptions of MWSD for people who weren’t already in it. I particularly liked Bill Martin’s description:

MWSD stands for Men and Women who Serve the Devil. Picture standing up
orgies, revellers clad in slinky checkered gingham, string ties sinister in
their simplicity, scratchy old 45rpm records playing music that possesses
the cultists and induces them to writhe disgustingly in little groups of
eight sinners until exhaustion sends them to the lemonade cooler. This
scourge must be stopped! Are you with me?!!

Maybe this is how we should approach marketing square dancing. How about a bumper sticker: “Square Dancing: The Most Fun You Can Have in Groups of Eight!”.