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200 at 2:05

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At 2:05 pm PDT this afternoon, we hit 200 users at the same time. Because of a minor auto-update scheduled at that time, this caused a database "brownout". I took Apache and Mysql down and restarted them so some of you likely experienced a few mysterious messages while trying to load pages.

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Blogging vs. Trolling - Perhaps a Contest?

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Someone recently created an account here for the sole purpose of posting a blog to complain that a BC author with a similar name got a higher Google rating than he. After thinking about it and deciding it wasn't really an April Fowl Joke, I unpubbed the blog and blocked the account. Essentially a whiny troll who didn't even know how to provide a usable link to his site, he got me to thinking:

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New Members on or after 1 a.m. PDT 25 Mar 2008

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One of the consequences of restoring the database is I may have lost any new user signups for Mar 24, 2008 to Mar 26, 2008. If you signed up for a new account during that time period and your password no longer works, you'll probably just have to sign-up all over again. I'm sorry.

- Erin

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Repairs

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Database got corrupted during power flux at ISP. Spent almost 3 hours repairing it. Going to bed. Some data (node counters, history, logs) rolled back to previous week. Sorry about that.

- Erin

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Happy Easter

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Renewal and love are in the air in spring.

Call or visit someone you haven't seen or heard from in a long time.

Forgive an old injury.

Remember the sweetness of life, for all its frustration and pain.

Joy to you and all of yours on Easter Morning.

Hugs,
Joyce

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Pains

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I bought a fence for my doggelle and put it up today. Now I'm in pain, hope to be feeling better after taking pain meds but need to flake out for a few hours at least.

The doggette had a good time in the yard though, she caught a three inch long grasshopper. :) It was almost worth kranging my back to watch her. She didn't know whether to attack or run and hide. :)

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Teh dog iz funneh

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I was lying in bed reading and Cuddles lying next to me. Some big truck passed on the street and shook the house. Cuddles decided someone must be in the house and started growling. I got up to go to the living room with her, she wouldn't go alone, to show her no one was in the house. She was right behind me.

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Things Not Done

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Having some trouble getting things done, you may have noticed.

It's not just stuff on the site. I need time to recover which I will, I'm pretty resilient about stuff like this but just bear with me while I work through it.

Hugs to all,
Erin

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Gone again

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Something stupid happened and I have to be gone again today. Bob and Sephy know how to get in touch with me and I will have my laptop along. Beeeee gooood.

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Erin

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How 'bout them Giants?

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I don't watch football usually, but I would watch it more often if games were as good as the fourth quarter of this Superbowl. Two excellent teams, two fantastic quarterbacks, head to head competition between the minds of two great coaches. Wow!

The Pats didn't let themselves be outplayed, they just got out-lucked by a Giants team that made no important mistakes. Double wow!

- Erin

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Voting Broken

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I've got to unplug the voting module because of security problems. There is no update for this yet, I may have to do some coding on it myself. Sorry about this, we've all enjoyed the voting.

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Erin

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Flaky Network

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BCs network connection has been off and on this afternoon. At least two outages of more than two minutes. I've got a trouble ticket in on it but an intermittent problem like this can be the very crawdads to diagnose.

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