Edits 12 August 2015 19:10 UTC: Added a few more funnies, made a couple modifications to my analogy, and added an additional news link. I know I haven’t exactly been using this blog much as of late (except for unexpected downtime postmortems), but this is too good to ignore. As some of you are probably aware, Oracle Corporation‘s Chief Security Officer, Mary Ann Davidson, posted a rather ranty and drively blog …Read the Rest
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UPDATE 11:10 3 June 2015 UTC: The Linode status page regarding the datacenter failure incident has been updated with …Read the Rest
Earlier today, at around 08:00 Sun 17 May 2015 UTC, ridley.fastlizard4.org suffered an unexpected downtime. At this time, the problem …Read the Rest
Minecraft 1.5.2 Manual Downgrade Instructions
UPDATE: Though this post if out of date, I have posted general (and updated) instructions on downgrading to older versions …Read the Rest
Today, ridley (the server, not the villain from Metroid) had its first major unexpected downtime incident. Following is a reconstruction of …Read the Rest
Supertweet 3: Thoughts on 9/11, Ten Years Later
As most (all?) of you know, today marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the United States by the …Read the Rest
Scanning for Radiation: Week 3 Update
So, finally, I have downloaded, analyzed, and posted the first data from my experiment for the world to see and …Read the Rest
Supertweet 1: My God, it’s Full of Lights
Supertweet: Like a tweet, except much longer than 140 characters, and written as a blog post. As I said when …Read the Rest
April Fools’ Day 2011
So, April Fools’ Day for 2011 has come and gone, but, that doesn’t mean we can’t look back and take …Read the Rest
Scanning for Radiation: Week 1 Update
Continuing last week’s post regarding scanning for evidence of radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plants reaching my area, Southern …Read the Rest
Scanning for Radiation
As everyone who gets any exposure to news knows by now, the massive earthquake that struck Japan a week or …Read the Rest