Not that I’m one to say “I told you so,” but in a rather abrupt fashion today 365 Main suffered a critical power outage that affected a fair number of their colo customers. And cut out the knees of some major Web 2.0 services.

A lot of these services are critical to companies, and again there was no failover, no uptime guarantee.  read more »

In a conversation with Jonathan today, I had mentioned Yahoo’s impending discontinuation of Yahoo Photos in favor of Flickr. I began to wonder what would happen when the first Software as a Service loses its customer data.

Note that i say “when,” not “if.”

Imagine if you will, what would happen if Flickr lost all of your photos, or Google Apps lost all of your documents, basecamp all your project data, or (heaven forbid), del.icio.us your bookmarks.  read more »

(The following takes place between 4:40 AM and 4:50 AM on Thursday, July 12th, 2007. Cool digital clock noises.)

rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries

What is this, why is it showing up some tens of times, and why is it being followed by a suggested resolution of installing bash?

For a program that doesn't need bash?

When you already have bash installed?  read more »

We just noticed that a favorite inspirational site, Smashing Magazine, has listed this site as an “inspirational site,” a high compliment considering that many of our designers have found inspiration there at times.

A quick welcome to all of the visitors we’re getting - welcome. And thanks for the acknowledgment for our fine, Drupal-based website!  read more »