As much as I enjoy using LiveJournal, I was ready to fly to Portland and pimpslap the database admins this morning. I logged in around 7:15 to check my friends’ overnight entries. No problem. I tried logging in again around 10:45. Problem. Big problems. Apparently, EVERY entry that I made from June 2001 until this morning at 1:30 had gone *poof*.

This did not make for a very happy Rob.

When I was finally able to log on, I was able to see friends’ entries, but mine were still AWOL. My blood pressure continued to rise. After all, with a paid account, I don’t expect to log in and find everything gone… especially when I had seen it just a couple of hours before.

::: braincramp :::

Nearly an hour-and-a-half (and a support request) later, I discovered what the problem was: My journal had been moved from one cluster to another. And the new cluster was undergoing maintenance. BUT… there had been no notification of the maintenance (I had checked during my info hunt). A notification appeared on about 00:45 after I had started looking.

But, everything is back in order now. For the most part. I reset the color scheme back to one of the LJ defaults when it said that there was an error in my journal’s format. *shrug* That’s fine. I was going to make some changes anyway.

–> fast forward <–

The day ended nicely. Jess and I went to California Pizza Kitchen at The Gateway for dinner. From there, we headed to Cocoa Caffe for coffee and conversation with friends. As an unexpected bonus, Maddox was there, too.

News
Morning Edition: Stressed-Out Game Designers Sue Software Maker
Morning Edition: Congrats to the Cat
Morning Edition: After Rutles, Monty Python, Innes Still Sings (for )
Talk of the Nation: The Debate over Tasers and Police
All Things Considered: Foreign Musicians Hampered by U.S. Visitation Restrictions
All Things Considered: New Generation Brings Edge to Crafts
Fresh Air: Singer David Johansen: Return of the N.Y. Dolls (Some of you may remember Mr. Johansen’s alter ego, Buster Poindexter.)

Stray Toasters


  • From the 2004 Ghosts Calendar:

    1941: At 7:55 a.m. on the “Day of Infamy,” the backbone of the American Pacific Fleet is broken before World War II has even begun. Without a declaration of war, Japanese aircraft from Admiral Isourku Yamamoto’s carrier task force successfully carry out surprise attack on strategic air and naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

  • Some of you may have heard of this already, but given the holiday season (and the commemoration of the attack at Pearl Harbor), I felt that it was a good time to bring it back to the forefront: Operation AC has an Adopt a Soldier program. Thanks to for the heads-up on this.
  • Rush hour traffic in South Salt Lake is… tedious… at best. Today, there was a power outage in a part of SSL. That made driving even less fun. And, I’m Ivory Soap sure that it wasn’t exactly a field day for the residents of the powerless areas, either.
  • By way of comes…. this.
  • There are some houses in our neighborhood that are festively adorned with holiday lights and decorations. We don’t have any lights up yet, but we will probably put some up in the next week or so. Some, including me, might consider some of our neighbors’ displays as “overkill” or even “gaudy.” But, it also gave me a horrible idea: I don’t want to match the tackiness factor… but that doesn’t mean that I can’t outpenis them in luminosity. I’m discovering a new affinity for LEDs. The buggers don’t take a lot of power and they put out a lot of light. And, if done properly, the rigging for them could be left up year-round. I have a year to decide how serious I am about this…
  • The 2004 Good Gift Games Guide
  • Does anyone else remember Beakman’s World? Well, here’s the Beakman and Jax website.
  • : I’m pretty sure that you’re already up on this one, but Crusade is now on DVD.

Namaste.