January 01, 2005

Well that kin'a bites...

Firstly, HAPPY 11111010101 EVERYONE!!!!!!

Secondly, Apparently the power here in Salt Lake City and in particular the power supply feeding the machine <XSLT:Blog /> resides on had gone out at some point during the day and the site subsequently was unavailable. My apologies if you had made plans to begin reading every post since the sites inception during the period in which it was down and then became awakened every so rudely when you discovered this was not going to be possible. I can't really say for sure how long the site was down but based on the date stamped to the emails that came in telling me the site was down (thank you to those of you who tried to help out!) my guess is that its been pretty much the entire time I've been away, or about 12 t0 16 hours. My sincere apologies to you for this!

What has me scratching my head is that I thought I had prepared for such a mishap by setting the system to restart itself if the APC power supply backup were to ever run out (which apparently it must have.) Guess I will need to look into this and find out what the problem is. I do wonder if it might be smarter to move the site to the main x2x2x.org server such that the chances of this happening again are substantially smaller given the fact that this machine resides in an establishment in which seems to have been designed to survive a nuclear holocaust. While all the lines coming into the place may be fried that place will still be humming with internet activity, intra-traffic though it might be.

I'll look further into all of this now. In the mean time I hope your 11111010101 (2005 for those who can not read binary) is as fantastic as you hope and plan it to be!

Cheers!
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