View From the Bushes

As I mentioned yesterday, I just released the third adventure in our Adventure Path Series (yah!). Furthermore, on Friday I released demo snippets of both "Band of the Silver Coin" and "The Heart of the Home" (the brand new one), so hopefully all you demo subscribers out there will get a taste of the new adventure, be unable to wait any longer and give me your first born! Actually, I already have four kids aged six and under, so the last thing I want you to do is send me your kids.

Yesterday afternoon (the 16th, though I'm actually writing this on 16th. Dangnabit! now the mystery is gone...) the power went out at my "real" job. I've never seen the hardware guy move so fast. Miraculously, our UPS's (Uninterruptable Power Supplies) actually worked. I can't remember the last time that happened. Which is odd, since I think they cost 10's of thousands of dollars for the whole server room. The big problem is that the air conditioning in the server room is not on the backup power. Which means that if the power is out for too long, we have to start shutting servers down not because we're running out of juice but because everything starts to overheat.

Okay, this has been pretty dull thus far, and I'm not witty enough to spice things up this late in the game so I'll just continue with the dull. Have you ever been to the 2000 Census Website? It's amazing the kind of facts that you can easily access. For example, did you know that 36% (the largest percent of any category) of dwellings in New York City were built before World War II? Or that 25% of the people in Logan County South Dakota speak a language other than English at home? I warned you that it was going to continue to be dull...

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero,
Ross