Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog

Verizon was here this morning (still here) working on getting our T1 in.
Then we had our power blow out. We were sitting around doing nothing for 5 minutes.
I had the power come back to find that said power outage has made our two day old 80 GB drive on the Xserve fail 7 prefailure checks. Luckily this drive isn’t being used for anything substantial, but…
I called Apple about getting it replaced. They don’t even have it in their system yet for replacements, it’s so new. So I have to call back on Monday.
While I’m on the phone with Apple, my machine crashes. Apps hard lock, mouse still works. This seems to happy occasionally thanks to my iPod, but what makes this crash frustrating is that I was download an 80 MB beta of a game I’m supposed to evaluate.
I reboot, download the beta again, install it, and realize very quickly I can’t launch any new applications. I reboot. I find that the installer has set my Applications folder to permissions such that I can’t open it, let alone run anything.
10 minutes later, I’m back up and fine, but…jesus, what a shitty day.

Despite the date of the trip overlapping the period of WWDC, and despite us staying not to far from the Moscone Center, and despite me being in the Mac development business, I need to state to the 3 people that may be confused that we are not attending WWDC.
Just wanted to clarify.

I think I’ve finally got the layout fixed. If the sidebar is ending up at the bottom of the page, please let me know what browser and version and OS so I can curse whoever is responsible.
Also, I’ve re-enabled the requirement for an email address to be passed with typekey accounts, but this will not be publicly displayed any more if you fail to enter a URL. I don’t like spam as much as the next guy. The email address is just so I can follow up to you by email if need be.
Given that I’m still getting comment spam under 3.0b1 (although it’s much easier to deal with), I’m very tempted to move to TypeKey-only at this point. Sign up today! It’ll be good for every MovableType 3.0 site that uses authentication.