- The channel’s main server, heybryan.org, experienced an outage; the root cause was identified as the ISP’s policy of allowing only one MAC address per account, forcing kanzure to look for a router or multi-NIC solution and briefly consider Ethernet-over-USB or LTP work-arounds.  
- A quick diagnostic tool was shared: downforeveryoneorjustme.com (initially mis-typed as “downforeveryoneofjustme.com”) for checking whether a site is globally unreachable or just locally inaccessible.  
- Singularity Institute (singinst.org) posted a call for volunteers to help design “collaborative modeling software architectures,” flagged by kanzure as a concrete opportunity for the channel’s participants.  
- wrldpc asked about a European SETI-like project; kanzure identified it as the “European virtual observatory,” and wrldpc then attempted to enlist the Stickam show “Share Knowledge” to analyze a YouTube video on flying cars.  
- willPow3r reported success booting 32-bit Windows Vista under qemu, while lamenting xchat’s lack of true transparency and the poor quality of new KFC/Taco Bell combo restaurants—minor but telling notes on the state of everyday tech and biohacking culture.