29. April, 2003 - fall down, go boom

• Late last night (just as I was about to go to bed) my server decided to stop running. I would have noticed it sooner, but since these things all seem to happen at once, my phone had also lost its connection to the network at the same time. I won’t go into too much detail on how incompetent the phone support people were there on the first call, but it was almost bad enough to have me cancel my service then and there. Luckily, the phone dropped the connection and I had to call back and actually got someone with a clue. Turns out I might have a bad SIM card in the phone, but we’ll have to keep an eye on it for a while. As for the server, apparently it had panicked, and I’m not sure why, but it seems more likely to be a software than a hardware problem, so I’m not going to completely freak out over it. But I did start a fresh backup of the server before going to sleep last night, since I’d had a pretty big adrenaline rush when I wondered what I would do if the hard drive had fallen down.
• I wrote a quick note about interesting Science Kits for Kids for a friend the other day. Basically I suggested staying away from kits and doing things that would turn into hobbies, since that was what worked for me as a kid.
• Apple’s big announcement was the iTunes Music Store. I dunno. I’m just not that excited about it, especially since part of the announcement is the support for AAC, which is sounding like I’m going to need to re-rip my music. Well, I won’t have to, but it’s a new format, and it will probably be best to adopt it. Heck, it might even lead me to buy some new music, I guess.
• Conceal-carry becomes law in Minnesota, and could take effect in as little as 30 days. More commentary when I have more time. [strib]
• Police issue citations over Spring Jam weekend for Operation NightCAP and yet it still didn’t seem to affect the number of loud parties. Then again, they were mostly targeting drunk drivers, from the sound of it.
• Finally, Brad Templeton has some Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Spam. [boing boing]

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:40:05.