• Oh, goody. Power outage. Wonder how much work I lost? #

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We had a power outage today that, naturally, took all of the computer systems down.  The outage by itself was a bit unusual as the power kept going down and then coming back on.  This repeated every few minutes for the better part of 45 minutes.

When the outage was over a Linux laptop that runs Nagios wouldn’t come back on the network.  Well, it would come back on the network well enough to get a DHCP address from the router.  But that was it.  It couldn’t see anything.  It couldn’t even ping the router once the IP address was assigned.  It didn’t really come back until I #$%&ed around with the network settings for a while.  I’m not even really sure what I did to get it back.

The whole even vis-a-vis the Linux laptop doesn’t make any sense.  It really should have come back fine considering that I shut it down during the first cycle of the power outage.  That laptop doesn’t have much in the way of a battery and it doesn’t make much sense to have it wasting power on wireless trying to get to systems it will never be able to reach during the power outage.  The system has been shutdown before and it has always recovered just fine.

I remain baffled.

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I just noticed that the entire month of February was about to slip by without saying anything.  Well, I can’t let that happen.

Actually, I’ve been really, really busy overhauling another web site.  It’s finally done.

I’d been meaning to upload this picture for some time.  It was taken near St. Cloud, MN during our trip there during the summer of 2009.

"TNT" Store

We had pulled off the freeway to get some coffee and saw this, a burned out “TNT” store.  We started laughing like crazy as I’m sure many others did over the months that the building was under repair.

The store’s actual name was “Treasures N Things”.

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Why is ignorance self-reinforcing?

Drupal Image Oddity

Typically when I setup a page with images I like to use a style like:

      <img class="badge"
           src="images/badges/npp.logo.80x15.png"
           alt="Notepad++" />

Using multiple lines makes it easier to see all that is happening with the image.

Apparently this confuses Drupal in some way.  Drupal would not render the placeholder for the image until all of the attributes for the <img> tag were placed on the same line.

      <img class="badge" src="images/badges/npp.logo.80x15.png" alt="Notepad++" />

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• Cool. In a Noah's Bagels where Black Sabbath's Iron Man is playing. #

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• Ouch! I just got hit by a neutrino! #

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Interesting little event while using the Mac Book Pro today.  Finder crashed.

Finder Crashed

This is extremely unusual (for me).  I thought Mac’s didn’t have crashed applications?  I’m not really sure what to make of this.  Many other people seem to have had this issue since upgrading to Snow Leopard (which I did a week ago).  But since I don’t use the applications or external devices that seem to be associated with their reports of problems, I’m lost.

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