Needcoffee.com - Ten Years of Insomnia: 1998-2008!
How Was Your Day?
Posted on 04.30.08 by Widge @ 5:16 pm

Here was mine:

Direct link for the feedreaders.

We think we might have nailed down that PITA problem with the server that's been causing us grief: a hard drive was having an I/O error. If you don't know what that means, imagine Flynn from Tron saying it and it won't matter. Many thanks to our server support team for sending in ninjas.

We should be better1 now. If we're not, ping me.

1 "Better" in this context means the server, not our personalities, personal lives or levels of required medication. We are still well and truly fucked in those areas.

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Site Stuck in English Against Our Wishes
Posted on 04.25.08 by Widge @ 9:36 pm

Okay, the site translation is offline until I can figure out for certain one way or the other if that's causing our issue with making the site database barf all over itself. That was the cause of the not-brief-enough outage earlier today. I've also gone in and optimized our database tables in the hope that maybe that will make everything behave. But the translation stays off until I can figure out WTF is giving us these rather spectacular craters in our server uptime. Thanks to everybody for their help.

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Why You Should Never Become a Webmaster
Posted on 04.24.08 by Widge @ 1:02 am
IGNORE ME

Here's the long and short of it.

1. The server did Something Odd. Not the comic strip, an actual Something Odd. This Something Odd involved it cutting all ties between it and the database where the site is served from. This is what is technically known as an Incredibly Goddamn Heinous Incident or IGHI in the technical vernacular. This has been fixed and I'm hoping will not reoccur.

B. The contests broke. This is because the contests also need database loving. Without database loving they wither and die. These have been fixed. They took a long time to get fixed because finally Elizabeth D. pointed out they were broken and I didn't think about them in the melee of the IGHI. Everyone tell Elizabeth thank you.

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Feed Things
Posted on 04.06.08 by Widge @ 11:09 pm

Quick snippet: Damien just pinged me asking for a LiveJournal feed for Needcoffee. And sure enough, we didn't have one.

We do now and I think this is the link you need if you want to add us to your Friends list: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/needcoffee_rss/

Oh, and I also created a little app-thing for Facebook that will let you display Needcoffee madness in your profile. Find that here.

Anybody else wishing they could see our stuff somewhere it isn't? Lemme know, I'll see what I can do. Danke!

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The 1Q Amazon Report
Posted on 04.06.08 by Widge @ 1:41 am

Well, I think it's pretty clear what the most expensive item you guys bought from Amazon through the site during the first three months of 2008: it made us so happy, we've already blogged about it.

But what were the most popular items, i.e. the ones that had the most repeat sales?

Well, by far that honor goes to Richard Simmons.

Richard Simmons

No, I'm serious. Various flavors of Sweatin' to the Oldies were purchased. Not to mention related titles like Disco Sweat and 60s Blast Off. On DVD and VHS, even. Plus some Simmons-branded exercise clothing. No shit. Hey, if the site (or Dindrane's review of Sweatin' to the Oldies) inspires you to get in some exercise, we say go for it. Lord knows we're parked on our butts enough here where we could use some.

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