Jonathan Coulton

Ever since I came across Jane Siberry’s online store I’ve wanted to try offering that same kind of flexible pricing – when you buy her music, you decide what you want to pay for it. From what I hear, even though everyone who buys has the option of getting it free, generally the average price [...]

It’s been several days and no website problems – I may not have mentioned, after that whole thing with deleted data there was also a situation with a bad network card. There were some unexplained outages that went away once they replaced that sucker. It’s running so smoothly now I don’t know what to do [...]

They’ve chosen a winner – I won’t spoil the surprise, just go here. Thanks to everyone who entered, there were some really great ones in there. I’m honored that you would all spend so much time working on something like this (even if you only did it for the iPod).

We managed to recover my old mysql database, and I managed to rescue all the missing comments and put them back where they belong. And the mailing list data, which was even more important, though I will probably have to go in and re-install and re-customize all the php because those files appear to be [...]

You may have noticed a distinct lack of, well, everything here at jonathancoulton.com. On Friday I realized that I had done enough work on the new server that I was starting to feel a little nervous about not having a decent backup – some files and data are thoughtfully still made available to me by [...]