Ticker for December 9, 2003

                
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A New Ticker is Here!

After a wretchedly forgettable weekend trip to Kansas City (we don't
want to talk about it), and a shaky, quaky Monday in the Ticker Building
(2.0 on the Richter Scale!) the Entire Ticker Staff is back behind the
wheel of a new and improved Ticker!

Thanks to some very hard and innovative work by Jared Bostic, OCS's
system administrator extraordinaire, the Ticker is now being served
from a new server, with new scripts and new functionality.  You won't
notice many changes on the front end (that's your end) yet, but rest
assured: things look a whole heck of a lot better on this side of
the fence.

The end result will be a more reliable, flexible, timely and
informative Ticker because much of the production legwork has been
eliminated by Jared's efforts.  Look for new features soon!