Internet:
Freshmeat,
along with what appears to be everything hosted over at Andover, was offline for
a while today, without much fanfare or little information
about how long it had been down. Which made me think; would
a website dedicated to discussion of outages as they happen
be a useful tool? Not a site like Internet
Traffic Report, but rather something which takes the
load off of less appropriate forums (such as NANOG) and moves the brunt
of the typical newbie screams of
"ohmy$deitymyfavoritewebsiteisdownhowwillieversurvive!?" to
a forum better equipped to handle it, with people able to
post their takes on outages and their effects. ;-) I'm
thinking of a basic weblog (something akin to Slash or Scoop), with community
modereration and submission. The question, of course, is:
has someone already done this, and would it be reinventing
the wheel?
Work:
Mixed day today: a chili cookoff, with four
people bringing in some fantastic home-made chili. Mmm, no
meetings this afternoon (for obvious reasons). On the other
hand, I now know of at least four people who probably won't
be here by the end of the month, which will put our numbers
well under 50.
ithought:
I really need to get that working; this is round
two of trying to compose this entry because of a simple
mis-click. Unfortunately, I have a bunch of GNOME apps that are no
longer displaying (they run, and sit in a read(2) loop
forever waiting for something; that's what I get
for running a mixed bag of Raw Hide and Ximian GNOME software, I
suppose). So far, the failing apps include Gabber, Gnumeric,
and ithought.
Stuff:
I really need one of those uber-cool Ximian
stuffed monkeys. Even cooler would be to get one with
"Helix Code" on it too, to pair 'em up. Ye ghods, I'm a
geek.