CDB news highlights
12/01/06 Thanks FADE IN magazine! DeathBeeper.com in Top 100 Coolest Film Sites on the Net!
03/14/06 15,000 subscribers! Woohoo! Thanks everyone.
03/02/06 Thanks to HARRIETT HENDREN for the Lexington Herald-Leader article!
02/23/05 Thanks to NED HIBBERD for his Houston Fox 26 News story about us! TV!
09/03/04 Thanks FRANK DECARO & DORIA BIDDLE for the Sirius Satellite Radio OutQ interview! [PatersonNJ x2]
08/09/04 10,000 subscribers! Awesome! Thanks everybody!!!
01/07/04 Thanks to WHITNEY MATHESON for mentioning us in USA Today today.
07/08/03 Thanks to RICHARD ROEPER for mentioning us in the Chicago Sun-Times today!
04/16/02 CDB was mentioned in the Chicago Tribune (4/15) & the Philadelphia Daily News (4/16)!
10/12/01 You can now make a donation to the CDB to help keep us afloat.
11/11/00 I got my 15 minutes of fame today at 7:23am. Listen to the interview I had on ComedyWorld radio about this site. Thank you FRANK MURPHY!
10/01/00 Happy Birthday to Celebrity Death Beeper!!! One year old! Thanks to all our members!
12/02/99 CDB is out of the beta test phase
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12/11/08 Thanks to PAM VETTER for the article about us in American Chronicle! Grammar errors not mine?
08/10/08 CDB signup now requires email confirmation.
01/23/08 20,000 subscribers! Cool. Thanks everyone!
05/01/07 Upgrade caused some of you to not receive a couple emails. Now fixed.
04/10/07 Thanks LEO LAPORTE and AMBER MACARTHUR for the podcast mention.
12/01/06 Thanks FADE IN magazine! DeathBeeper.com in Top 100 Coolest Film Sites on the Net!
08/11/06 Added new CSS-enabled data feed.
03/14/06 Web hosting problem! Sign up again if you did it today! Back to 14,995 subscribers.
03/14/06 15,000 subscribers! Woohoo! Thanks everyone.
03/07/06 Web site works w/ Internet Explorer again. Trust me, it was their fault. "Friendly HTTP errors" bug.
03/02/06 Thanks to HARRIETT HENDREN for the Lexington Herald-Leader article!
07/22/05 Thanks to FATBACK & DENIRO for the Radio-Uncensored interview!
02/23/05 Thanks to NED HIBBERD for his Houston Fox 26 News story about us! TV!
10/01/04 The Celebrity Death Beeper is 5 years old! Thanks to all 11,000+ subscribers!
09/15/04 Added code to help prevent 2 different headlines being sent for the same celebrity.
09/11/04 Thanks to DAVID BRUSER, for the Toronto Star article!
09/03/04 Thanks FRANK DECARO & DORIA BIDDLE for the Sirius Satellite Radio OutQ interview! [Paterson NJ Jam Session]
08/09/04 10,000 subscribers! Awesome! Thanks everybody!!!
07/13/04 Thanks to JIM RICHARDS for the interview on 1010 CFRB!
05/12/04 New ways to use CDB data: RSS & IFRAMEs.
02/16/04 9000 subscribers!
01/07/04 Thanks to WHITNEY MATHESON for mentioning us in USA Today today.
01/04/04 Thanks to the Colorado Daily for the article.
12/17/03 8000 subscribers!!!!! Woohoo!
11/08/03 Thanks to JERRY DAVICH for his 10/19 article about the CDB in the NW Indiana Times.
10/22/03 7000 subscribers!!!!!
08/13/03 6000 subscribers!!! Thanks everyone!
07/08/03 Thanks to RICHARD ROEPER for mentioning us in the Chicago Sun-Times today!
06/29/03 Ooops. Hard drive glitch. About 30 emails lost (newest subcribers) :o( Sign up again?
06/13/03 Added advertisements. Buy an ad or click 'em to support the CDB! :o)
05/01/03 5000 subscribers!!! Cool!
11/19/02 Wow! 4000 subscribers! Thanks everybody!!!
07/19/02 Headlines containing the word 'musicologist' are now ignored...and 'art director' too!
05/07/02 Web site was down for a couple days. New web host!
05/02/02 3000 subscribers!!! Cool! Wow, a lot of bold news around here.
04/29/02 Sweet! I was on MANCOW's show today...for a minute. Maybe it wasn't on air?
04/24/02 Thanks to BRIAN PHILLIPS & the CD101 morning crew! I was on this morning! Woohoo!
04/22/02 2500 subscribers! Thanks everybody!
04/20/02 Congratulations! to death pool winner Jen L. (with Layne Staley)
04/17/02 Contest closed to new entries: The free death pool has been re-opened! Win a shirt!
04/16/02 CDB was mentioned in the Chicago Tribune (4/15) & the Philadelphia Daily News (4/16)!
04/12/02 I re-wrote the CDB in Perl. Was Java. My webhost is flaky with Java.
04/05/02 Purchased celebritydeathpool.com!
03/31/02 2000 subscribers! Woohoo! Thanks everybody!
03/30/02 3 winners in 1 week! Congratulations to flicker16! 4th winner in the death pool!
03/27/02 Wow! 2 in 1 day! Congratulations to "wjb"! 3rd winner in the death pool!
03/27/02 Congratulations to Jason W.! 2nd winner in the death pool!
03/17/02 23 days and no deaths! Well, sorta...I didn't send out some lesser known people.
03/14/02 Added new tomb items to the CDB store at CafePress.com.
02/15/02 Purchased celebritydeathwatch.com. Why not?
02/08/02 17 days and no deaths!
02/06/02 Experienced web host problems over the last couple of days. OK now.
01/08/02 People have donated money to the CDB. Do it too!
12/23/01 Excite.com changed their site so I had to update the CDB. Done. Merry Christmas!
12/03/01 More CDB merchandise available at the new CDB store at CafePress.com!
11/30/01 Congratulations to death pool winner, "Caity"!
11/25/01 Woohoo! 1,500 CDB subscribers! Thanks everybody!
11/19/01 Our web host deleted our entire site. Argh! Some people may have to subscribe again.
10/12/01 You can now make a donation to the CDB to help keep us afloat.
09/26/01 Contest closed to new entries: There's a new CDB free death pool contest! Join and maybe win a shirt!
09/20/01 Moved this website to new host. Updated subscribe/unsubscribe script.
09/19/01 Site was down for a day. Don't know why. Maybe that virus.
09/09/01 CDB is back on automatic. (I was pre-approving beeps the last month or so.)
09/08/01 Moved CDB back onto Linux platform. No problem. Java's cool.
08/27/01 1250 Celebrity Death Beeper subscribers!
08/03/01 I just sent some of you a bunch of emails. My sincere apologies!
07/16/01 1000 Celebrity Death Beeper subscribers!!! Woohoo! Thanks to all of you for joining!
06/28/01 Congratulations to Justin D., our 4th death pool winner!
06/20/01 750 Celebrity Death Beeper subscribers!
06/11/01 Congratulations to death pool winner #3, Dan W.
05/29/01 Overhauled code to check more frequently updated sites: entertainment, sports & top news
05/28/01 600 Celebrity Death Beeper subscribers!
05/01/01 500 Celebrity Death Beeper subscribers!
04/16/01 450 Celebrity Death Beeper subscribers!
04/07/01 15 days and no deaths. Slowing economy hits everywhere!
03/27/01 New tomb T-shirt at the CDB store!
03/25/01 400 Celebrity Death Beeper subscribers!
03/13/01 Congratulations! to our 2nd death pool winner, Lynda V.
03/13/01 Now checking the top news section...for political figures and such.
03/12/01 350 subscribers! Things are really hopping!
03/11/01 Help support the CDB! Buy a cool T-shirt at the new CDB store. $15 + shipping.
03/10/01 Been having email issues with our new host. Hopefully solved now.
02/23/01 300 subscribers!
02/18/01 Congratulations! to our first death pool winner, "beukebo".
02/06/01 Win a CDB T-shirt! Play the death pool game.
02/05/01 275 subscribers.
01/27/01 Server hit by virus...using backup server.
01/25/01 250 subscribers. I do say: welcome Topica folks!
01/24/01 200 subscribers. Welcome Topica.com folks!
01/20/01 Been having server issues. Resolved.
12/11/00 150 subscribers
11/16/00 Added email confirmation for new users.
11/11/00 I got my 15 minutes of fame today at 7:23am. Listen to the interview I had on ComedyWorld radio about this site. Thank you FRANK MURPHY!
11/07/00 Even our UK arm is up and running at www.celebritydeathbeeper.co.uk thanks to Jez Braker.
11/06/00 Bought deathbeeper.com and deathpager.com thanks to Matt Hachman.
10/22/00 Changed beep email to include direct link to the story.
10/20/00 New email address: [...]
10/18/00 This site spiffed up a bit & renamed from "Celebrity Death Beeper" to "CelebrityDeathBeeper.com".
10/16/00 Woohoo! THE web page is UP! www.celebritydeathbeeper.com
10/09/00 Added pre-alert system so admin has time to stop a beep if it is bogus.
10/07/00 Heck. Why not. I bought celebritydeathpage.com.
10/06/00 I bought celebritydeathpager.com. What next?
10/05/00 Fixed bug in beep return address. Expanded remote admin tool to help prevent repeat beeps.
10/01/00 Happy Birthday to Celebrity Death Beeper!!! One year old! Thanks to all our members!
09/16/00 Wow, 10 days and no deaths. I think this is a first.
07/12/00 We have over 100 subscribers. See the current count.
07/07/00 Updated beeper code to email me each day with a status report
06/26/00 I decided to buy CelebrityDeathBeeper.com
04/28/00 OK, this time I REALLY, REALLY think I fixed the problem where the death checker would freeze
03/06/00 Thanks to Ben Lutch (formerly of Excite, currently of FevDev): algorithm now ignores "death"
03/04/00 Algorithm now ignores: "deadlock"
02/23/00 Algorithm now ignores: "stuntman"
02/12/00 78 subscribers
01/26/00 Algorithm now ignores: "death row"
01/13/00 Added code to 1) help eliminate repeats 2) halt the service if it emails > 5 times in one day
01/07/00 39 subscribers... and definitely fixed the email problem (return address needed to resolve w/ server)
01/05/00 CDB now has 40 subscribers
12/29/99 CDB now has 30 subscribers
12/28/99 (Hopefully) fixed an email problem where emails weren't sent cuz sender domain didn't resolve
12/23/99 Algorithm of Death Java source code no longer available
12/23/99 Free advertising to the first person that sends me a banner!
12/16/99 No 'Nearly Killed' headlines are reported
12/09/99 Told CDB to ignore headlines containing 'S DEATH
12/02/99 CDB is out of the beta test phase
11/14/99 Moved the CDB software to a super-spiffy Linux server at Feverish Development
11/07/99 Email now refers you to the sports section if it is a sports dude/non-dude
11/01/99 Changed Algorithm to ignore headlines containing "mourns" or "mourned"
11/01/99 Now checking Excite Sports in addition to Entertainment
10/21/99 Changed Algorithm of Death to ignore headlines containing "say" or "says"
10/11/99 Implemented an Already Dead list to combat repeated headlines.
10/06/99 Changed the Algorithm of Death so headlines aren't reported if:
- they end in the word "death"
- they contain the word "since"
- they contain the word "still"
- they contain the word "remember"
- they contain the words "Billy Crystal", "Whoopi Goldberg", "Little Richard", "Kenny G", "Michael Bolton", "Sinbad", "Ben Vereen", "Buster Poindexter", "Paula Poundstone", "Mandy Patinkin" (due to overwhelming demand)
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