Yep.. Looks familiar. I know all too many people who enter URLs in the Google search bar…
“But it gets me where I want to go…”

Animation by Guy Collins, music by Kevin MacLeod, titled “Comic Plodding”. (Discovered via Boing Boing)

Blogger suffers from the “Friday the 13th”-syndrome. Actually, yesterday it suffered from “Thursday the 12th”-syndrome.

It seems Blogger is read-only for the moment. No logging in, and no posting possible. Oh well…

Update: At least, this time, Blogger updated its status blog:

To get Blogger back to normal, all posts since 7:37am PDT on Weds, 5/11 have been temporarily removed. We expect everything to be back to normal soon. Sorry for the delay.

Yahoo Pipes is acting up again. Here is their most significant of error messages…

So.. should I tell them I think there is a problem?…

As my friends would say: "Get a life! Get a real job!"

It was 3:30 am last night, well, this morning, when I finally found that the “MySQL server has gone away” error, can be cured by increasing the “wait_timeout parameter” from 30 to 250.

Left to do, is checking if the “key_buffer_size” and “table_cache” will reduce the CPU load, so I can actually have less PHP processes waiting in queue.

The things one will endure for a fast blog. Dah.

(If you are really curious, you can always click on the picture for a hires snapshot of my life…)

Cartoon courtesy Geek and Poke

Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali

Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali

Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali

Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali

With thanks to Andrea for triggering my Cron jobs on his server after Godaddy went belly-up again today.

Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali