Hot Soda Apparatus News

5.03.2k: Site Temporarily transferred to FortuneCity.

After becoming thoroughly fed up with the passive agression of Freeserver's FTP service, I finally let down my pride and gave FortuneCity the keys to hotsoda.8k.com. They get my files, and they get to do whatever they g**d*** please to my precious code. After many futile attempts to circumvent the code, and not wanting to waste all my time putting all those anchors back in, I just decided to let you people look at my defamed creations until August.
Happy surfing!

5.02.2k: Plans are made to take HSA full-time.

We're not too sure what all the implications of this are, but some weird, funky stuff's gonna be goin down in HSA land this summer. Stay tuned for details as the develop.

5.01-03.2k: Site offline.

I am currently attempting to transfer this site back to Freeservers for the summer. However, the FTP capabilities of this partucular provider seem to be lacking in the worst way.
"Hey! Let's upolad 70% of every file he tries to transfer! It'll be great!!!"
Don't expect any massive changes in this site over the summer.

4.20.2k: "My God, that page is pointless!" The Almighty Cube of HSA is created.

Yes, folks, it's happened. I am now the master of my own domain. These web pages your are viewing are being downloaded directly off my computer. Slow? Well, it may be a tad slower, but here are my benefits:
a) no uploading of any files necessary. Whatever changes I make are automatically reflected online.
b) My files are not limited to 500k, Letting the Media page run free with audio goodies. Freeservers, why'd ya hafta do that? And finally,
c) no annoying banner ad. Now my pages can look the way I want them to without using sleazy code that circumvents this pesky feature.

[SPECIAL THANKS TO FREESERVERS FOR LETTING ME KEEP MY VIRTUAL DOMAIN AND NOT FORCING ME TO USE THEIR EVER-SO-GENEROUSLY PROVIDED WEBSPACE]

So I'm anal about my website. Why must you suffer? I have a simple answer for this. I quote the immortal words of John S. Hall: "I am a sensitive artist. Nobody understands me because I am so deep." He continues; I stop. Your bitchy, whiny question: answered.

The slightly bad news about all this is that, yes, the access time is a bit slow, but it's just being run off the University of Oklahoma's Network, which wasn't really designed for webhosting; just for high-speed incoming porn. Also, because the files are being served from my computer, it is logical that this site would not be available when I switch off or reboot my system. [Windows 98, I hate you for crashing so much] A good indication of whether this site is currently up would be to click here. If the name added is not shown as "online," then access to this site will be denied. This shall not happen often though, I guarantee. Effective 5 May 2000, A.D., I shall be forced to relinquish control of my website to Freeservers, but as soon as the Fall semester starts back up in August, It shall return to its former glory right here.

All this to say that the Official Hot Soda Apparatus website can still, and will always be accessed from http://hotsoda.8k.com/. Basically, other than the server, nothing has changed. Thanks for listening. Not necessarily caring, but thanks at least for listening.

not much has happened recently, so I decided to put up a news page.
funny how the thought of *making* a news page only becomes relevant when no actual news is being made.

3.01.2k: Website Born. Now people can access all of my original material and not laugh at it. Then they can print it out and pretend it's their own. Wait.. was this a good idea?

2.11.2k: Sitting around one night listening to King Missile III's Failure album, and we're like, DUDE!!! WE COULD TOTALLY DO ONE OF THESE!!
The date was set for my spring break, since I'm the one that lives so far away from home, so we would record from 3.10-3.18 and see what came out.