Annals of the Homestarmy - Ooops

Upgraded

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:00:18 -0600

s9y upgraded to 1.3.1
PHP upgraded to 5.2.6
Apache upgraded to 2.2.8

Let me know if anything's broken.

From the New Game Show

nospam@example.com (The Mad Giggler) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:56:00 -0600

He Said It

MG:
so you're coming up for Rock Band and Racquetball, right?

AoD:
OH, YES

MG:
great

AoD:
That's like asking someone if they're up for a great meal, a nice hotel, and awesome sex. Clearly Ming's is the great meal, I'll leave you to deduce the other two relationships

My lords, my ladies (and everybody else here not sitting on a cushion! ) let me present a link to a comment AoD made this week.

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"Category" Bug Fixed

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:11:54 -0700

When Radar was here tonight, after sharing Rodgasms of laughter, we were looking at the blog and noticed that the per-category view was not working - a bug that crept in during the 1.2.1 upgrade due to a missed SQL upgrade script on my part. This has now been rectum, you can again enjoy per-category viewing.

Just Marvey

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:35:15 -0700

[Ed: moved image below the fold per Daboo's request]
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s9y Upgraded

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:39:35 -0700

We've moved to s9y - that's the software used to run this blog - version 1.2.1.

As always, please let me know ASAP if you see any issues.

Comments Disabled in Gallery

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:34:02 -0700

Daboo pointed out that people were putting spam and offensive comments in the gallery, so I've disabled comments there for the time being.

Power Outages in Orem

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:53:43 -0700

The server may be up-and-down over the next few days

jubilee has arrived, no sign of persephone

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:25:10 -0700

Our server was finally shipped, and arrived (at the wrong house) yesterday. Luckily, the person who got the package noticed my phone number on the shipping label and called me to tell me they had my package. I drove over there last night and picked it up.

Amazingly enough, the machine booted and all data seems to remain in place - I was CERTAIN that they would destroy my box in the process of removing it from the racks, and blame it on the shipping.

I'm currently working on getting bids from data centers, and hope to have the machine back online sometime in February.

Third Tier Hardware Failure

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:06:53 -0700

Our production server is offline, and awaiting shipment in San Jose, as is our secondary server. Our tertiary server, the first off-site backup for the other two machines, had a hard drive failure this morning (thanks for the call, Sideshow). Our secondary off-site backup has more limited space and bandwidth, so I have (to this point) only been performing secondary off-site backups once a month...which means that when the hardware failed this morning, we had to go back to a 1 month old version. If I don't have more info on when the other servers will show up by the end of this week, I will locate a better secondary off-site provider, and move the current one to a tertiary role.

Honestly, I just can't provide more redundancy than that Sorry for the lost work, everyone.

AoD = PWNED

nospam@example.com (The Mad Giggler) — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:13:20 -0600

Now that most of you have had a chance to look at http://www.internetisseriousbusiness.com/ I just wanted to let you know how bad it got the Ancient of Days:

Joey: CURTIS
FREAKING
MORTENSEN
You are my arch-nemesis
It's a darn good thing for your sake that you're fleeing to St. George to outwait the days of my wrath
me: What's the matter?
internet is serious business?
Joey: yes
jerkface
me: enjoyed every click, didn't you?
Joey: I lost 154 tabs
me: roflmao
I'm sorry about your tabs, but that just made my day.
I acquired a serious headache at lunch, but knowing that you found that site as frustrating as I did made this day so much better.
I can't wait until Anne and Katie click on that link.

Sorry For the Outage

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:16:24 -0600

Now that we're a paying customer of our ISP, they've moved our server into a better location. In the move, it seems the database server didn't come back up on its own. As soon as I noticed, I manually restarted the database and everything seems fine now.

PHP upgraded

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:15:00 -0600

Well, I finally broke down and upgraded php on jubilee (the machine that hosts this blog) to 5.2.0. The thing that was holding me back was testing s9y under this version of PHP, and I finally made time for it this weekend. Everything appears to be going fine, but please let me know ASAP if you see any problems.

Hopefully, this will solve the problem of the blog going down and not coming back up every Sunday morning.

Blog Software Upgraded

nospam@example.com (Ancient of Days) — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:55:51 -0600

We have moved to the new 1.1 branch of s9y, our blogging software. Among other things, this should allow for better page compression resulting in a smaller bandwidth bill for yours truly.

As always, please let me know immediately if you see any issues.

Unbaptized Infants Released From Limbo

nospam@example.com (The Mad Giggler) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:47:32 -0600

This Discover Channel article is the only link I've seen, but I find this absolutely amazing.

almost eight centuries of traditional Roman Catholic teaching. . .

Nevertheless, it has been a strongly debated issue since the time of St. Augustine, who persuaded a church council in 418 A.D. to reject any notion of an "intermediary place" between heaven and hell.

Update on the comments

nospam@example.com (The Mad Giggler) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:37:24 -0700

I've made a couple changes to the anti-spam configuration and re-enabled comments. Unfortunately, you'll only be able to comment once per minute per IP address.