Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Not sure if anyone noticed, but my blog was down for almost 24 hours after an utterly botched “urgent maintenance upgrade” by WebHost4Life. Now I’ve been with them for around 3-4 years with only a few outages, but this one was just utterly rad.
I put in a help desk ticket this morning at about eight o’clock, and got a response within about a half-hour saying that it had been forwarded to the "server guys." Great, should be back up in no time. Or not.
After having no response for 10 more hours, I finally started poking around in the hosting control panel. After a bit of devious delving, I noticed that IIS was being pointed at a directory in the E: drive, while the file manager was telling me all my files were on the C: drive. So I changed the mapping and I’m back up.
I have to say, I’ve had few complaints up until now with my service. But this may finally give me the motivation to move over to Text Drive, where I’ve got a lifetime account. Up until now I’ve just been too lazy. Speaking of which… I deserve a beer.
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Buckles is neglecting his blog again. And he’s still using recycled designs created by other people.
The funny thing is, he’s now single, so he should have all the time in the world to work on nerdly things like website designs. But for some reason, he’s reneged on his duties as a geek and reverted back to trying to be cool (which he will never be able to do as well as me anyways).
Oh, and one other thing… Vlad, Ted… You’re next.
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
I just realized how much weather forecast segments on local Calgary television (and I assume elsewhere) suck. Really. I challenge you to watch one and tell me it doesn’t suck. Let me demonstrate the divide between what I expect out of a weather forecast, and what I am given
What I want:
- Do I need to wear pants?
- Do I need a jacket?
- If I wear a hat, will it blow off my head?
- If I wear multiple shirts, will I sweat?
- Will there be puddles?
- Will I require sunscreen?
- What are the chances of me being hit by a meteor?
- A hot weather girl
This is what I get:
- Green spots on a map, the majority of which is land upon which I will not ever be travelling on.
- The location of low pressure systems
- The location of “The Jetstream” (yeah!)
- Pictures of funnel clouds west of Balzac
- The revelation that said funnel clouds do not contain any “tornadic” activity
- An aging “meteorologist.” (now if they actually talked about meteors I might be happy)
As you can most likely tell, I am a pragmatic man.
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