camestrosfelapton posted: " Back in May last year File 770 noted that the website of the Declan Finn book review project Upstream Reviews had suddenly become unavailable: "Cat Eldridge circled back to right-wing blog Upstream Reviews to read any new comments on its recent gloat" Camestros Felapton
Back in May last year File 770 noted that the website of the Declan Finn book review project Upstream Reviews had suddenly become unavailable:
"Cat Eldridge circled back to right-wing blog Upstream Reviews to read any new comments on its recent gloating posts about the Mercedes Lackey controversy and SFWA's announcement that its membership directory data had been compromised. Surprisingly, he found that the blog is offline – all you get is an "Internal Server Error." There's still a Google cache file – the blog's last entry was Declan Finn kissing Larry Correia's butt. Maybe the internet threw up? Cat says, "Quite likely as the parent domain is for it is mysfbooks.com which as been blacklisted by the internet as being dangerous to visit (may have worms, may harvest your passwords, may steal your immortal soul).""
The site restarted as a Substack site and posted a weirdly angry response to File 770's coverage. Since then the three main reviews (Declan Finn, Graham Bradley & Michael Gallagher) have gained additional reviews such as Caroline Furlong (who wrote the recent Dragon Award post which I covered). The site has since managed to maintain a fairly regular output...but it appears to have stalled again. There have been no new posts since July 11.
Why do I care? I don't... You see, I only just learned that Apple had finally added pivot tables to their spreadsheet app Numbers. It's actually quite a nice implementation and it handles dates very intuitively. Once you set up the table, you can a date field as a category for rows or columns and then select how the dates should be grouped. So my original data had dates as "Jul 11, 2023" and the app lets me group by year, month, year-month, and year-quarter. Power BI will let you do that but it's been made very easy on Numbers. I thought I'd try it out by pulling some dates from the Upstream Reviews site to tabulate patterns.
Well there you go. Better you didn't realise this was going to be a product placement for Apple software.
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