Max

So I can't believe that James Z. hasn't fired Olivia! Olivia seems pretty cool and all, but it seems like she has definitely fucked up in major ways, eschewed responsibility when she probably should have taken it and generally been a kinda mediocre employee. But I like her character and she was way more interesting last season before she got into the Ms. job, now she just seems super quiet and stressed out.

Today, either I got security vetted by a vendor or they just called to shoot the shit. We talked about the holiday and vacation and something about her grandma and a bunch of other stuff. I kept it terse because I wasn't really looking to chat but also was unsure of her motivation and my office complex is very quiet and I really like it like that and imagine the rest of my team does too.

Eventually we addressed some business issues but it was something I had been considering calling them about to begin with. My predecessor said something about them liking to call and chat, I guess this is what he meant.

So yesterday the server went down due to a transformer blowing up in my parent's yard... it reset the router and CMOS settings on the server so I had to go out to deal with it since the box couldn't get on the network.

I hadn't planned to do anything Friday, but it was a day off and offended by the notion I MIGHT have wasted a day off more than I already would have I moved the server over here.

I decided to take advantage of the downtime and upgrade it to the latest major version of FreeBSD -- 8, we had been running the now deprecated 6.2 -- and clean up some oddities in how php was configured and how mysql and lighttpd started up.

I decided to do away with lighttpd altogether in favor of the current apache 2.2, because I have learned over time: there's really no slower or sillier way to run PHP than via FCGI.

Sometime soon I ought to use the last bit of elowel money to buy a UPS to prevent powerblips from interrupting the site's uptime altogether...

(Oh, and the server time should make sense henceforth.)

My utter loathing and fear of dependence on others.