Tricksters

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• 02:06 Project Pitchfork (fave band of all time) - Kaskade : Instead of an Angle - has been running through my head. VNV's Epicentre as well... #
• 02:16 For those not in the know or too lazy to search Wikpedia, VNV Nation's name means 'Victory NOT Revenge'. This is important. #

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• 13:53 Feels more like Fall than Winter today, but it's not Winter yet. Just being impatient for tangible change. Fall is just fine on it's own tho #
• 13:56 It's good to laugh @ yourself @ your mistakes even @ things out of your hands. Seems the only sane way to go. Discordia & Om got that rt. #
• 00:16 unplugging, don't know when I'll be back. Rt now there's too much exestential/personal stuff to handle-Be good while I'm gone as best u can. #

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• 13:39 I know what book3 has to be now. Been avoiding it for too long but, maybe it's time to use art for something personal. Something good & hard #
• 16:49 "I'm poor and I'm weird baby, you got no time for me. I'm poor and I'm weird baby, you got not time for me" --The Briefs #
• 23:37 Tonight, it's officially crisp & cold. Man, I love this. Finally, some decent fucking weather. Trying to do early pre-prod on Book3 tonight. #
• 00:37 Sometimes, numbing the pain is helpful. SailorJerry's good for that. I don't want to hide f/everything but, sometimes it's not all bad. #
• 00:51 Just saw a gross display of ratial profiling. It disturbed & angered me... /sigh. Fuckin' whitw-y. #
• 01:03 It's been a long week in too many ways to name. Goodnight dear fiends, I love you all-Goodnight & may your dreams be exquisite to the utmost #
• 11:04 Squirrel Wars are happening less than 10feet away... involving what looks like a baby Squirrel. Everyone seems on edge lately. #
• 11:34 Rum (94proof) + loneliness + email access = bad... /sigh + /facepalm #

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EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

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• 01:36 has a lot to think about right now... some of it good. Some of it not so good. Some of it will likely lead to a lot of pain. Such is life. #
• 01:38 fuckaduck & fuckit period. I'm going to bed. Too much up in the air, I need sleep. Goodnight dear fiends ;) I love you all. #

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• 16:07 Forgot to mention a visit by our neighborhood raccoon. Still w/out his family. Now w/out his tail... T__T we shall name him 'Stumpy'. #
• 18:39 bad 'shoulder' day. Been pretty awful lately, really glad I'm not taking anything anymore but, goddamn is it tempting rt now... #
• 03:32 The Birthday Massacre is running through my head, I just received the most beautiful & thoughtful Foreword for my book that I could have. #
• 03:34 Thank you Taliesin Jaffe for those words . They mean more than I could explain. Thank you. & I love you. Tomorrow's a new day. A new book ;) #
• 03:39 I'm freezing my arse off smoking & debating & arguing & all those good things. Going to call it a night. Goodnight dear fiends. #

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• 15:18 Behind the Orange Curtain rt now for Dias De Los Muertos. Luckily it's in Santa Ana instead of some shit hole like Irvine. #
• 01:08 Good foggy night talking film & narrative w/RedChris, @AprilDecember & Coco. Nice to relax in this setting again w/no project over my head. #
• 03:50 Dia De Los Muertos in Santa Ana was really great. A good festival w/good people we haven't seen in a while but, are wonderful & worth seeing #
• 03:53 Also, it's foggy as all fucking hell rt now & I fucking love it. Wish it was like this all the bloody time. But that's just me I'm sure. :) #
• 04:04 Goodnight dear fiends. It's finally time where the Vampire hr's make me feel my age... RedChris & Coco have left, so it's time for bed :) #

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