Blog posts

1. NIN club show

   Oh, I’m going to see NIN in Philly and you aren’t.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon March 05, 2005 - 4:58 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-03-05-nin-club-show/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-03-05-nin-club-show/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

2. Locals

   I’ve been grabbing feeds from a few locals recently and will be adding more until swamped. Recommendations?

   • DCist
   • DC SOB
   • A Ten, A Five, and Five Ones Yuppie foodstamp reference?
   • DCFoodies
   • DC Blogers I know it’s petty but every once in a while I’ll run down the list and open all of the ones with their own domain name
   • In Shaw
   • Upcoming.org
   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon March 04, 2005 - 3:30 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-03-04-locals/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-03-04-locals/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

3. Jef Raskin

   Jef Raskin, the apple developer responsible for the name Macintosh, among many other things, Just died.

   Bicycle was such a stupid name anyway.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon February 28, 2005 - 4:32 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-02-27-jef-raskin/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-02-27-jef-raskin/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

4. T-shirt ideas

   Some of these I’ve seen elsewhere but would like to do my own, open a CafePress shop and sell. I have a few design ideas but would like to first open for submissions logo work for the below stolen and stupid ideas.

   • Disaster Area
   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon February 26, 2005 - 4:54 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-02-26-t-shirt-ideas/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-02-26-t-shirt-ideas/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

5. Schlomo

   Dream analysis has as much scientific credence as thetans, subluxation, Sco’s Unix claims, or any press release from mi2g.

   Perhaps the most trenchant criticism of Freud’s work is that it fails to have the necessary predictive and falsifiable elements required of any scientific theory. It can be argued that Freud’s work is really just a narrative that can be woven around any situation that a patient might present with.

   Just a friendly reminder. No, that last link’s graph isn’t phalic.

   I’m obviously acting out against repressed conflicts

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon February 25, 2005 - 3:21 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-02-25-schlomo/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-02-25-schlomo/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

6. Harris Teeter in Adam's Morgan

   While it’ll be closer than the current closest grocery store by a block or two at 17th & Kalorama, the new Harris Teeter isn’t opening until the fall of 2006. Right after the construction on 16th at Alaska will be done. Long after I probably move to another neighborhood.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon February 24, 2005 - 12:53 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-02-23-harris-teeter-in-adams-morgan/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-02-23-harris-teeter-in-adams-morgan/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

7. Smokefree DC

   Indeed.

   Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham has a poll on his website about the yet-again proposed smoking ban in Washington, DC. If you support local businesses, go vote ‘no’ immediately. It’s on the bottom of the left-hand sidebar.

   More at dcist.

   

   Ban the ban.

   They had a booth, stickers and t-shirt campaign

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon February 24, 2005 - 12:09 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-02-23-smokefree-dc/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-02-23-smokefree-dc/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

8. Wikipedia down

   Note to self: Never complain about restoring from backup again.

   

   I’m curious if Ben and Aaron can account for their whereabouts this evening and if a witness could corroborate. (no you’ll never live that down)

   Update: Go figure, the wikipedia so-sorry notice updated itself with more details a few times since I posted 😉

   What happened?

   At about 14:15 PST some circuit breakers were tripped in the colocation facility where our servers are housed. Although the facility has a well-stocked generator, this took out power to places inside the facility, including the switch that connects us to the network and all our servers.

   What’s wrong?

   After some minutes, the switch and most of our machines had rebooted. Some of our servers required additional work to get up, and a few may still be sitting there dead but can be worked around.

   The sticky point is the database servers, where all the important stuff is. Although we use MySQL’s transactional InnoDB tables, they can still sometimes be left in an unrecoverable state. Attempting to bring up the master database and one of the slaves immediately after the downtime showed corruption in parts of the database. We’re currently running full backups of the raw data on two other database slave servers prior to attempting recovery on them (recovery alters the data).

   Update 19:20 PST: We have at least one database server with intact data. When we have a second up and running, we’ll be able to put the site back online in read-only mode as we continue.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon February 22, 2005 - 4:39 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-02-21-wikipedia-down/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-02-21-wikipedia-down/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

9. Copyright Criminals

   Watching this trailer / preview of a documentary on sampling has made me late for work.

   

   Check it out.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon February 21, 2005 - 3:37 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-02-21-copyright-criminals/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-02-21-copyright-criminals/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

10. Sanitation Engineer

    New job title:

    Grant Stavely

    Senior Network Engineer
    Sirius Team Leader

    Ben and I gave a lot of thought as to how to name the teams over our regular post-planning-meeting Thai lunch, given no easy way to differentiate them like location, specialty, or technical skills. My first thought was to use Gem names. My team was going to be Team Emerald, Ben was going to lead Team Ruby. Papers were drawn up, people that prepare Excel documents prepared Excel documents. During the initial brainstorm, Ben suggested star names but was shot down after he listed off a few geeky star names; boss: “Algol? nobody has heard of these things, next idea?” At another meeting, star names came up again and I suggested a few more recognizable stars (see how it was my idea? j/k) and the decision was made to change themes.

    New business cards have been ordered.

    Ben’s team is called Team Polaris.

    Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon February 19, 2005 - 4:37 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-02-19-sanitation-engineer/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-02-19-sanitation-engineer/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.