When Google Sitemaps came out I didn't really bother to check it out. Custom-authoring some arcane XML format in order to support one (admittedly gigantic) private company? No thanks.

Well, it's been a while, and folks have gone ahead and done all the hard work for us. So if you want to be sure Google can find everything on your site (and that it'll know when you've updated it), you might want to follow one of these sets of instructions:

• Movable Type (ignore the bit at the end about URL encoding; just submit the sitemap here)
• Wordpress (submits it for you)
• Drupal (ditto)

just fyi: it looks like UPN will be rerunning most if not all of season 2, so this would be a good time for those of you who've seen season 1 to catch up. the first episode was already tonight, but you could torrent that if you wanted to. so, yeah. tuesdays, 9pm!

i just saw an ad for a movie starring keanu reeves and sandra bullock, who play star-crossed lovers, one of whom appears to be...a time traveler.

clearly, the movie industry has found the solution to sagging ticket sales and apathetic audiences.

well, looks like i have a 99% sure subletter. phew! too bad i totally ignored the issue of NUN. i'm an evil person. i've also got a place to live in DC in the fall as well. (i'm really just sticking around there to see if the balcony will burn down again.) all that's left is finding a place in atlanta, which is proving much more hellish than i would have liked. thankfully, i have atlanta encyclopedia matt at my disposal, which has already proved helpful. for now, two out of three ain't bad.

sweet. via tvguide:

Straight from the horse's mouth, Rob Thomas just e-mailed me to confirm that Veronica Mars has been renewed for a third season. The show got a 22-episode order that, depending on ratings, can be reduced to 13. Very reliable sources, meanwhile, are also telling me that One Tree Hill will be back and that Everwood is, in fact, dead. Talk about injustice.

now if only we could guarantee the first three episodes 7 million viewers apiece, i'd be a happy lady.

Alright, it's been a week. How's LastCall holding up?

No huge surprises. I guess I'm a little surprised that more people are using the opentable capability than the movie and music features, but it's pretty close.

Traffic might seem low, but I'm pretty happy with this level. People are using the service, but it's got a lot of spare capacity. And, more importantly, this level of use seems unlikely to provoke the ire of my mobile carrier.

I've gotten requests for a few more movie theaters and two reports of "no trains" being incorrectly returned by the metro component, but otherwise no real complaints. I'll be trying to address those two items — particularly the bug — as soon as I can.