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I missed posting yesterday, but I had a bit going on. The lady and the boy are off to FL for a couple of weeks to visit w/the grandparents. I miss ‘em already.

Today I discovered that my web server’s EXIM daemon had gone down about a week ago. Not such a big deal, as I don’t use that as a primary mail server anyway; but there was still a problem. There’s a handy utility on the server which montiors a variety of activity, and (wait for it) sends an email when things aren’t working. You’re starting to see where this path is going, aren’t you? Not only does it notify you via email, it keeps notifying you every five minutes by email that the email daemon is at zero functionality.

Hence the recursive cursing tag.

So, I was finally, after some tinkering, able to get all 2500 notifications out the door. So I could delete them.

My question is: why would you set up a mail daemon monitor to send an email on a fail condition? Isn’t that like a warning light to indicate low-visibility conditions? Or a beeper to indicate excessive noise?

A better question is: has anyone hacked the cPanel server monitor script before? I don’t even know what language it’s written in. Stay tuned, you might see the answer in a week or two right here.

Now that the blog has been up for a day, let’s reflect on what we’ve learned:

1. Being angry doesn’t help
2. Being right doesn’t help
3. Having good lawyers helps, but is very expensive

In a nutshell, there’s nothing you can do about any of it, so why not enjoy what you can?

…that there are actually top-ten lists for ringtones.

‘Member when your biggest tech concern was AM vs. FM?

Have conferences in Ireland: http://funconf.com/

I’m there in spirit! Slainte!

Researching popular websites for women. It didn’t even occur to me, but according to Mashable (via ComScore) one of the most popular is, of course, Oprah’s website. The post actually starts by noting the most popular site is cafemom.com.

We all have personas, some of them just last longer than others.

I can’t seem to even get things rolling today. Trying to finish out the User Personas, but I’m wondering now how useful they’ll be.

Hear me roar