Please Stand By
The reality server is experiencing some administrative difficulties at the moment. We hope to have these issues resolved shortly. In the meantime, remain calm. In case of blog implosion, please form a single straight line and proceed to the nearest exit in an orderly fashion.
UPDATE: Well, that was fun. Our domain registration expired yesterday, and the reality users group had to scramble a bit to locate our admin so he could renew it before the grace period ran out. In the meantime, reality.sgiweb.org was hijacked intermittently by various squatters. As of this morning, the domain has been renewed through 2007, so hopefully things will get sorted out once the various DNS servers update their caches to stop pointing at the squatter sites. My apologies for any inconvenience, but this site is run by a loose confederation of volunteers who aren't on call 24x7, so as I like to say, "Feces Occur".
UPDATEtotheUPDATE: After the events of this past week, I've decided to move the Goof to my own shiny-new personal domain on a hosting service that has full-time tech support. It's going to take a while to make the switch, so there won't be any new updates here in the interim, but I'll let everyone know when I'm ready to open up shop on the new server. Thanks to all who inquiried about my status last week. Your support means a lot to me.
Be seeing you!
Comments
Man, I have nightmares about that sort of thing! Thank goodness you're back -- I was starting to go all twitchy.
Posted by: Humuhumu | February 24, 2006 10:32 PM
This was enough of a nightmare to convince me that I need to move this 'blog somewhere else. I'll be announcing my new location shortly, and you can expect a nice little referral bonus for your suggestion that I relocate to Dreamhost.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | February 24, 2006 11:58 PM
I thought the world had ended.
Posted by: Apocalypse Joe | February 25, 2006 4:30 AM
Apologies are not enough. I need money, a chic with big hooters and a weekend at Maui.
Posted by: Sebastian | February 25, 2006 6:01 AM
Place it anywhere you like...
Posted by: Sebastian | February 25, 2006 6:03 AM
The "c", that is.
Posted by: Sebastian | February 25, 2006 6:05 AM
The "k", that is.
Posted by: Sebastian | February 25, 2006 6:05 AM
Oh, man, why am I so not in tune with life today.
Posted by: Sebastian | February 25, 2006 6:07 AM
Sebastian: I'll just send you a chic chick.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | February 25, 2006 8:50 AM
Good luck with the blog move Mr BH . Hope you find suitable accomadations,
Posted by: Fritz | February 25, 2006 1:14 PM
Hey, no fair, I told you about Dreamhost ages ago. Never mind, just yankin' chains (insert schmaltzy emoticon here).
Then again, I couldn't access my MT admin area most of the week due to Dreamhost fiddling around on something in the mySQL database. Always something, wherever you go.
Posted by: M.Ace | February 25, 2006 5:20 PM
golly, I was really freaked out there for a minute. Even my dogs were upset!
Posted by: michelle | February 25, 2006 6:19 PM
Hey, no fair, I told you about Dreamhost ages ago.
But did you let me hold your rum-barrel purse? No, you did not.
But seriously, if you told me, I totally forgot. Sorry.
Michelle, your dogs read my 'blog? I'll bet they really like my posts about squirrels.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | February 25, 2006 6:37 PM
No problem. I'm just bein' bad. I think you should be much happier on DH. And you might want to consider the handy one-click install of Wordpress. I have to get around to that someday myself, if only to have comments open again.
And for goodness sake, remember to save Goof's static HTML pages. Handy for brute force archiving.
Posted by: M.Ace | February 25, 2006 8:35 PM
I installed WordPress today and played around with it for a couple of hours, but I'm not ready to make it my main platform quite yet. It's going to take me a while to get the hang of the themes.
I saved everything, so I should be able to restore my entire archive to the new server. In the meantime, this site isn't going to disappear; the domain may have gotten squatted on for a while, but my files were untouched.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | February 25, 2006 10:13 PM