Elvis Costello Fan Forum

You are more than welcome to. Spooky and I don't push for donations. But they are appreciated and offset ongoing and on-time costs. There is the ongoing cost of Internet service which was kicked up by a factor of four early in the pandemic. The hardware costs are sporadic like this time when a hard ...

The hard drive used for backups is dying. I ordered a replacement drive and it arrived yesterday. I copied everything that new drive over night and will be shutting the server down for a while to swap out the dying drive with the new one. Hopefully this will occur quickly enough and without any issu...

As people have been reminding me, I am a bit late posting statistics on the Fan Forum and Wiki. Let me be clear that the content is user generated and there is a lot of effort put into doing so. The Wiki has an amazing amount of information in it. Thanks to those who spend time on it. Some random st...

keep your eyes AND ears open. the NEW YORK contingent rarely disappoints. [/quote]

8 September 2018 After some weirdness from squirrels eating the cables on the poles outside the house and some database damage which coincided with that, I think we had had unstable Internet for a few months from the damaged cables and it got went completely out last night. We had a great technician...

I just wanted to post that Mrs Spooky and I had a great\ time at the show. EC himself was fantastic but it was a treat to meet so many new people.

I will be in London for a week for work starting Sunday April 24. A few EC fans are planning a meetup in London on Tuesday April 26.

If you are interested, just post. We haven't worked out all the details yet.

I will have to get Dr. Spooky to figure this out...this is his specialty. :) Thanks for the prod. :) OK. Looks like it has been a busy year. :) Some random statistics as of today (13 August 2016): Fan Forum has about 172,500 posts since starting in June 2003. Fan Forum has 1987 registered users Joh...

I will be in Hastings UK from Monday (20 July) - Friday and London on Saturday (25 July).

If anyone wants to share a pint, just speak up.

I keep reusing this old thread. :D The upgrade appears to have run pretty smoothly. I the custom info at the top but please remember that this is a volunteer run site. You can help by using our click through for Amazon or just randomly making donations. See http://www.elviscostellofans.com/helpthesi...

I keep reusing this old thread. :D The upgrade appears to have run pretty smoothly. I the custom info at the top but please remember that this is a volunteer run site. You can help by using our click through for Amazon or just randomly making donations. See http://www.elviscostellofans.com/helpthesi...

We apparently have a fairly large backlog of account registration attempts on the Board. Almost all of them appear to be spam account attempts but at least one is from a human since they emailed to wonder what had happened. Michele is plowing through them now and all but the one who emailed so far a...

our area is in for a serious of strong storms for the next 24-36 hours. If The Board or Wiki goes down, don't be surprised. Local news is already reporting tornadoes with winds over 100 mph within 45 miles of here and heading this direction.

Maybe it is time for a yearly update of the "statistics"! OK. Looks like it has been a busy year. :) Some random statistics as of today (23 March 2014): Fan Forum has about 165,000 posts since starting in June 2003. Fan Forum has 1820 registered users John Foyle STILL has the most posts w...

Prince ('s lawyers) sued 11 fan-sites around the world for 1 million dollar each because they provided bootleg material. They all closed at the drop of a hat. A few days ago he stopped the cases (and dropped charges), but it rattled the chains quite a bit. Very quiet now around Prince sites ... Has...

Ymaginatif wrote:Costello lawyers are probably Prince lawyers fans too ...

I am not enough of Prince fan to get the joke. Please enlighten me.

Could you spell out a bit more what exactly is the type of stuff. Or is it just certain dimeadozen links that have been singled out? A bit odd if so. And a search for Elvis there reveals plenty of Elvis boots in existence. Of course everyone needs to toe the line, but I find it very depressing when...

Sigh...we have received direct correspondence today from attorneys of Elvis Costello regarding our fan forum and the mention of copyright infringement material. We apologize for the lack of continuity in some of the threads due to deleted posts, but we have no choice. One user in particular has been...

I can't believe we have been hosting the forum and wiki this long!!! I had forgotten about the narballs board before this one. I tried to find him to offer to take over but it was too late. I fear he succumbed to something horrible. :( I helped Taz with the forum when it was at a hosting company. Th...

Maybe it is time for a yearly update of the "statistics"! Some random statistics as of today (11 March 2013): Fan Forum has about 155,000 posts since starting in June 2003. Fan Forum has 1645 registered users John Foyle STILL has the most posts with 10190 with Otis Westinghouse trailing b...

For those who want a kick start at this, Google Drive (e.g formerly Google Docs) can be used to scan images and convert them to text. http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176692 We used this for a number of RTEMS tasks for the students who participated in Google Code-In thi...

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I just updated the software running the Fan Forum.

Let me know if there are any issues or questions.

Hi,

As those who have been around a while will remember, I tend to do major updates and upgrades during the holiday season. It is time for a major OS upgrade. I am starting it now and there may be a reboot or two. With any luck, there will not be any long outages.

Thanks.

It is 6:05pm here and there have already been 796 automated registration attempts... Are there some IP ranges you could block? LOL.. we already block a number of entire countries. And Spooky nails individual IP addresses when they are problems. We appreciate the suggestions but since we have been s...

Would a picture work? Name the LP for example? That's a good idea but (1) we only get either the captcha or (2) Q&A in text. I fear that something like Google Shopper could identify the LP. Check out http://www.google.com/mobile/shopper/ . The mobile version can identify books or media by the c...