View From the Bushes

Due to gross stupidity on my part, the first paragraph of this entry was posted on the home page but the rest didn't make it into the blog until a day late.

The weekends are generally pretty slow for me in terms of e-mail, web traffic and stuff like that, so I hope not too many people were inconvenienced by the unscheduled downtime we experienced yesterday. Calling some massive server a problem an "unscheduled downtime" is one of those euphemisms you'll find a lot in the I.T. industry. For those that are curious, I share (a better word might be "mooch") some rack space with a friend of mine who has a large, profitable dot-com. His guys were moving some servers around, and apparently mine got bumped, which led to losing its swap space or virtual memory.

This is where I get a little bit confused, since I have no idea how having your server bumped could affect your virtual memory without affecting a lot of other things as well. I need to get the rest of the story. The bit that I know now was waiting for me this morning when I woke up, as an IM
which had been sent at 3:30 am or thereabouts, so I haven't bothered to try to call anyone. In any case, everything is back to normal. At least I hope it is -- I haven't had the time to give the site a thorough walk-through, so if you notice anything don't hesitate to drop me an e-mail.

To all those who complained about my non-stop coverage of the Tour de France, you should be grateful that even though the Tour of Spain (or La Vuelta for those of you feeling exotic) is currently taking place, and has been for over a week, that this is the first time I've mentioned it. I might have mentioned it
earlier, but so far my "horse," Roberto Heras, is doing good but not great. In fact, his teammate Manuel Beltran is doing better, and was all the way up to second, but the last few days in the mountains his form hasn't been quite up there with some of the other top contenders. In any case that's the
last I'll say about that... maybe...

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross