Infernal machines
Proving the adage that technology is actually driven by evil spirits who let it fail just when it is most inconvenient: the MySQL database that serves as the back-end to my wiki has chosen this morning - an hour before I need to give a presentation stored in the wiki - to go kaput. SQL failures have been an irksome occasional occurrence with GoDaddy hosting. Good thing I printed off a PDF version of the presentation before going to sleep.
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January 31st, 2007 at 10:26 am
The interwebs ate my homework?
January 31st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
The database seems to have healed. Not that it will do you much good now.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:04 pm
On a similar note: an email address that I only use as a conduit between different websites is now getting spam. This means either:
(a) someone is brute force spamming email addresses
(b) someone has compromised a database of email addresses relating to one of the sites involved
February 1st, 2007 at 3:37 pm
The database behind the blog itself has been a bit jumpy over the last 24 hours.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:02 pm
A good number of Blogger hosted sites also seem to be down (not that this is unusual):
http://bensaunders.blogspot.com/
http://leejones-san.blogspot.com/