Who knows - maybe I just didn't have enough... but things sure have been crazy since I made that bottle of Absinthe...
Getting my server up and running has been an absolutely insane process. Like I said, absolutely everything that could go wrong did - from not being able to find disk 1 of 5 of my RedHat installation CDs (sure, the other 4 were there, but #1 was gone), to a power outage in my neighbourhood that lasted 3 hours, and started at precisely the same second that my linux installation completed, to a cascading failure of my DNS provider's servers... and they're located in Virginia! Then I get an erronious billing notification from my site redirector service that says 'this is your fourth notification, your service is being shut off." (of course, it was my first notice....), which coincided with my ISP randomly deciding to block port :80, which I'm running all my webservers on - and then today I've gone absolutely crazy for the last 3 hours because of the permissions on a single cascading stylesheet that was making everything on my server look wonky. Oh, and the mail server had stopped last night for what appeared to be no apparent reason, but turned out to be because it 'auto-upgraded' itself to a newer version, but then forgot to restart.....
Sheesh - I don't know - it's hard to blame myself for all these things that are so obviously out of my control, so I'm going to blame the only other thing that's new in my life that preceded the disasters.
I'm blamin' the Absinthe. ...of which I've only had 3 shots, but hey... I've gotta blame something - besides, I thought that this entry's title was 'real clever-like'.
clever indeed...
curious how i got a link to this in my email...
a new feature?
i don't mind...
i think i like it...good like with all that greek speach...ISP?
Redhat?
port :80?
ya..well power has finally been restore in NS after a week and a half...and the weather could be better for a maritime October
do what i do... blame it on the cat... "what's that smell?" the cat... "how come the laundry's all over the place?" the cat... "who ate all the _____?" the cat...
Posted by: sage at October 9, 2003 01:55 PMHey Vetiver - I couldn't remember who was on my 'auto-notify' list, so I just added everybody I know... hope you don't mind - I figured if anybody hated it, they'd let me know.
Sage - Blame it on ANYTHING but the Absinthe!, eh?
Yes... I remember... peeyew! What's that? Bad dog! bad bad dog!
I stumbled on this from Google and wanted to say thanks for posting
Posted by: Twinks at September 22, 2004 08:58 PM