A Delightful Start to the Week.
Irradiated by Stingray
As you may have noticed, your daily fix of nerdery has been absent since mid-day of 30 August. Today, while back, several weeks worth of content has gone poof, including a popular post or two some folks we met at the wedding were planning to look up.
As I am lazy with the backups, they will continue to be missing “for a few days.” Why is this? The folks who do our hosting moved to a new colo center. New servers, all that jazz. Our site was copied over to the new stuff, as you can see by the next post back, on 7 August. The catch is we used a different service for DNS, so everything since then kept right on keeping on going to the old box.
Yesterday was when the New Stuff went live, and the old stuff got unplugged and tossed in the on-site tech’s car, who promptly- and I wish I was making this up- went on vacation. The DNS is obviously straightened out, since you’re seeing this, but our old content will be locked up on the old hardware until said tech gets back into town. When will that be? The best answer I can get is “sometime this week.”
Between this and everything at work, if you will excuse me I’m going to go start checking out clock towers.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Like UJ said, if you’re shooting at a downward angle, that’s going to raise your Point-of-Impact, so bear that in mind. If possible, take a few sighters on soft targets before you go at it in earnest. And bring food.
August 31st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
You’ll need water too. Servicing a target rich environment gets the adrenalin pumping. You’ll get thirsty.
August 31st, 2009 at 5:46 pm
How was the wedding? As you may know I was disabled by a couple of broken ribs!
August 31st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
The wedding was lovely, in that it was brief enough to remain touching and the rest of the time was taken up by food, happy chatter, and alcohol.
We heard! I meant to send a message of condolence before you had to tell me. You’ll have to tell me the story; if there’s not a story, I’ll give you more time and you can make one up.
September 1st, 2009 at 8:01 am
Things Stingray Is Not Allowed To Do Anymore
#270: Not allowed to reference riflery from high points when ranting.
#271: When breaking #271, not allowed to do so over an open line. Or with an amplified voice in a public place. Or, like, on the Internet, or something.
September 1st, 2009 at 8:02 am
Well, leave to me to put a typo in an un-editable comment. #271 should reference breaking #270.