Breakfast 12-19-2005

Try one of these specials with your breakfast:

• Ann Althouse looks at Brokeback Mountain


• Sortapundit presents Brokeback Mountain ... in pictures


• Riehl World View has a promo pic for the movie


• joe-6-pack (geosciblog) broke the law


• bRight & Early finds a headline that gives pause


• aTypical Joe is making his shopping list


• Dagney's Rant is about wingnuts


• Daisy Cutter continues the Iraq War Debate


• California Conservative looks at Dubya's speech ... and the spin


• Gina's Rantings are about children


• Sean Gleeson remembers the day


• Tiffany (Blown Fuse) likes naps

Blame Sean Gleeson II

No, Sean Gleeson didn't beat me to the punch on a clever idea like he did once before.

No, this time, I'm blaming Sean for getting Dreamhost all riled up.

Way to go, Sean.

No, in all seriousness, it's not Sean's fault. Not even a little bit. But the other day, I read a post he wrote about Dreamhost writing him a nasty-gram. Seems Sean has been taking up system resources:

Specifically your CPU minute usage for today is 108.52

Now, Sean is a programmer. He does programming stuff for a living. And programmers are notorious for doing programming stuff. They can't help it.

Now, I'm not a programmer. I've tinkered with some BASIC (not Visual BASIC, but 1970-era Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). Which shows you just how long ago that was. I wrote a "2001" game where you worked your way through the ship to shut down HAL. And, of course, a blackjack game. Everybody wrote blackjack games. That was 1978.

I've tinkered with ASP, ColdFusion, PHP, JavaScript. But I don't consider myself a programmer.

So, while I felt bad for Sean when he got the letter from Dreamhost, I felt good that I didn't have to worry about that.

Until late Sunday. An email arrived:

Unfortunately it appears that your site is using more than your fair share of system resources on your shared hosting machine alvarado. Our system has flagged your account because it is using a large number of CPU minutes per day on alvarado. We need you to trim down your resource consumption considerably. Should you ignore this or subsequent warnings your account may be moved to an evaluation server which could cause downtime.

Specifically basilsblog's CPU minute usage for today is 55.10.

What the... ???

They let Sean go till 108 and they're fussing about 55 with me? What's up with that?

Okay. So I have to check the logs later today to "understand exactly which of (the) scripts is using what resources".

Which means I'll be working on two projects.

One project is to replace the scripts that are resource hogs with better-behaved scripts.

The other project? Watching to see how long before they shut Sean down. So I'll know just how long I have to get it done!

Brunch 12-18-2005

Try one of these specials with your weekend brunch:

• 45-Caliber Justice is looking for the ten stupidest blogs


• OrthoDixie defines a religion


• Paradosis looks at Kwanzaa [via OrthoDixie]


• 21st Century Paladin looks around the Web


• A Blog For All finds the New York Times with a story bad for the ChiComs


• A Short Course In Chaos looks at the NY Times story on wiretaps


• Raven (And Rightly So!) looks at the same story


• Baldilocks gives her take on that story


• Steve Donohue (A Republic, Madam...) says finals are finally over


• Skipper (BMEWS) muses

Sissy of And What Next

Today, we have another interview schedule. Sissy of "And What Next"...


Everyone's ready with their questions...


So here we go...

Brunch 12-17-2005

Try one of these specials with your weekend brunch:

• Mensa Barbie gets a battery-powered toy for the pussy


• Chip Mathis isn't going to see Brokeback Mountain


• Conservative Thinking looks at the rights of terrorists


• Choose Life updates the Silent Night song controversy


• Jack Yoest looks at jobs and Christmas


• Stop the ACLU! looks at the domestic spying story


• Gribbit's World considers the left


• Musing Minds has no Christmas ornaments


• Pirates Cove: 12 Days of Christmas, Day 5


• Shoot a Liberal asks what next


• Hooah Wife (who is interviewing me!) hands out awards

Adam Gurri from Sophistpundit

This weekend, we've got two more great interviews lined up. Today, it's Adam Gurri from Sophistpundit...


Our interview panel is set...


And now our first question...

TypePad Down

In case you haven't noticed, TypePad is having major problems.

See this for further details.[<<UPDATED!] Or this.

Essentially, the sites are up, but with old posts. They say two days old, but I see some sites that are nearly a week old. Regardless, they're down (current content-wise) and are trying to get back up. They may be back up in five minutes. Or next week. Who knows? It's been all day, and they're not back up yet. And that's a problem for many, many blogs.

Anyway, some months ago, Mu.Nu blogs experienced a similar outage. Now, mu.nu blogs are more of a community ... or cult, I'm not sure which. Regardless, a lot of good blogs were down, and several bloggers joined together to post links to "temporary" homes.

Today, it's TypePad with issues. And this post says "Open TrackBacks," but it's not really.

If you have a TypePad site, but are operating at a temporary location (such as Blogger or some other service), leave a TrackBack from your temporary site so others will be able to find it. Yes, you'll need to link to this post so that the Spam Karma filter will let it through. Plus, it will allow others that find you to get here to find others.

I don't care if you're left-wing, right-wing, or wing-less. If you're impacted by the TypePad outage and are running a temporary site, you're welcome to list it here.

Oh, don't forget, you're also welcome to register at Pyjamas Media (not Pajamas Media) and post there for as long as you like. It's open registration. Anyone can get an author account and publish what they want. Really.

One last thing: If you're looking for the normal Supper post to list your stuff, sorry. Use today's Breakfast or Lunch. The TrackBacks on this post are reserved for TypePad temporary sites or those linking for that topic.

TypePad sites with and their Temporary Solution:

• Here in the Bonny Glen: at LiveJournal
• The Heretik: at TypePad Refugees (Blogger)
• Agitprop: at TypePad Refugees (Blogger)

UPDATE: TypePad is back up. Republishing is happening.