On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

 1.5 more to go! Got the Spanish one out of the way. Now all that's left is the art paper and half of my Advanced Comp paper. 

Title: Borne aloft or sinking as the light wind lives or dies
Author: dollsome
Pairing: Sarah/Mary
Word Count: 2,374
Rating: PG
Spoilers: plentiful ones for all of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy; set post-series
Summary: For Sarah Rees-Toome, retribution takes a most peculiar course.

Another mix!




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Theme: Looking forward while holding yourself back.
Bands include: Guster, Los Campesinos!, Incubus, Lydia, Band of Horse, Bayside, Enter Shikari, A Day To Remember, Ra Ra Riot, Manchester Orchestra, Death Cab for Cutie.

Tracklist:

01 Guster - Fa Fa
02 Los Campesinos! - The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future
03 Incubus - Mexico
04 Band of Horses - Is There A Ghost
05 Bayside - Megan
06 A Day to Remember - If It Means a Lot to You
07 Death Cab for Cutie - Tiny Vessels
08 Manchester Orchestra - I Can Feel a Hot One
09 Lydia - Stay Awake
10 Ra Ra Riot - Can You Tell
11 Enter Shikari - Gap In The Fence
12 Bayside - I Think I'll Be Okay

Please comment if you're snagging :)

 And the .5 is half of my ten page paper! Now to do the research part...which won't be hard, I just don't want to interview people. So, I only have eleven-ish pages left to write. Three have to be in Spanish, though (just shoot me). That paper would have totally been done a week ago if it could be in English. And I really don't want to do my art paper. It's going to be a lot tougher to write than the one last semester because, apparently, we're not discussing Medieval painting...Mosaics, yes, but not painting, and I don't remember anything from my last art class. But, whatever. I just have to bullshit three pages.

Anyway...I kind of want the New Moon soundtrack. And I kind of want to date a total country boy. Not a redneck, mind you, just country. He even plays amazing country music (and I'm not just saying that...He really is wonderful, and I hardly ever like country music.) *sigh* We'll see. Probably nothing will come of it, but I'll give it a shot. Maybe.  

 
Ayer fue tranquilo, el Halloween más tranquilo que he tenido. (El del año pasado es nulo porque estaba enferma. Punto.) Pero la pase bien. 
El Plan A hubiera sido que viniera un grupo a casa y nos quedáramos viendo películas y bobeáramos, but that didn't turn out so well. Así que el Plan B fue salir con Angie y Pip. 
Fuimos al cine, después a comer y, de último minuto, más tarde a casa de Angie. El gran plan era vestirnos con lo que encontráramos allí (porque ninguno tenía disfraz puesto) y salir a pedir dulces, pero nos recogieron a mí y a Pipo como cinco minutos después de llegar. But then we stayed at my house watching the Ghost Hunters countdown, eating stolen candy from my siblings and playing with my cat. 
Vimos The Vampire's Assitant. La película está regular, but it was fun enough and had cute guys. Angelia showed up with Angie, which was a nice surprise since we hadn't hung out together in easily two years. We still got it, though. Nos despedimos con promesas de que se repetiría. Cuando llegamos a la urbanización de Angers, aunque estaba repleto de nenes chiquitos (bueno, prácticamente toda la clase de octavo de la escuela), no escuchamos ni un trick or treat. Tampoco por mi casa. What is the world coming to? 
When Pipo finally left, terminó Halloween con nuevos chistes internos, promesas de un par de libritas ganadas y la realización de que, contra, estamos creciendo de verdad. 
Kind of bittersweet, but I stil had a nice time and I really needed that. 

Happy Halloween!!
I'm mainly writing this just so I can use my Little Ned and Chuck Halloween icon. I think it's adorable. =) I'm not doing anything today (unless you count homework as something). I didn't even carve a pumpkin. I think this might be the first year ever that I haven't. We did buy a few small pumpkins today though; they're cute.

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There was definitely something else I wanted to say...I can't remember what it was.
That's been happening a lot lately...


I redesigned my contest blog. I added a third column and a background for Halloween. I'll leave it for a few more days then change the background again. Speaking of which, my current contest ends tomorrow! There are less entries that usual. *cough*self-promotion*cough* http://meghansbookblog.blogspot.com/

I was hoping I would remember what I wanted to say while I typed that, but I didn't. Oh well, I hope you have a good week. Mine is going to be brutal.

EDIT: If you're reading this, our maintenance is OVER! The problem was not found on our equipment, which means we'll have to work with our ISP to fix this small problem -- which also means another maintenance window in the future -- but at least we have eliminated our side.

Thank you everyone, and a special shout out to rekoil for giving me a great suggestion AND also the opportunity to feel like I've just called in to a local radio station.

Have a great day, night or afternoon wherever you may be.

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Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in.

Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :(

Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work.

( tech details )

status.livejournal.org will, of course be updated before and after the maintenance window. Or else marta will get mad at me. :D

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