Sorry to Have Been Away...

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Our hosting service, Joyent, had a miassive bank of servers down for almost three days. Then, when they came back up, the last good backup they could find was from May 17! Luckily Blogger stores a copy of this blog as well, and I was able to re-publish.

In any case, do not host with Joyent, folks!

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  1. Bob Murphy5:27 PM

    Our hosting service, Joyent, had a miassive bank of servers down...

    Cool coinage, Gene! A combo of "massive" and "miasma" (a toxic atmosphere). I like it.

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  2. Anonymous1:07 AM

    Hey Gene,

    Don't worry I keep backups of all my comments on this blog, especially since some disappear--even when the rest of your site appears to be functioning fine.

    The "dsappeared" comments will re-appear at the right time. Truat me on that.

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  3. Anonymous1:14 AM

    Hey, I just thought it was a "crash landing".

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  4. gcallah11:22 AM

    Dr. Murray, you are a bit obsessive, I believe.

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