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05.10.08 by Widge @ 4:09 pm  Well, not to share too much with you folks, but I was apparently the proud recipient of a kidney stone last night. So I had a hot date with about 18mg of morphine and a trip to the emergency room. Not, however, in that order. Posting for the next little bit while be a bit erratic as I have a bottle of percosets here to keep me from trying to claw my face off due to the pain. Men, they say it's the closest you can come to experiencing what women deal with during childbirth. If more men went through this fun, there would never be a need to remind people to adopt. There'd be a worldwide queue for when kids became available. I'd also like to apologize to any children who might have been in the emergency room at the time, as I'm sure you learned lots of fun words. So...talk amongst yourselves. This stuff may cause sedation. And this one of the only times you'll ever hear me welcome sleep. Categorized as: Admin
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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. Categorized as: Admin
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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. Categorized as: Admin
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04.24.08 by Widge @ 1:02 am 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. Categorized as: Admin
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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! Categorized as: Admin
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