Beginning around 7:30 this morning, both floor9.com and blogHarrisburg.com were offline due to a major power issue at the Pacific Rack datacenter in Los Angeles, where my VPS is located. This knocked out several hundred servers, including multiple web hosting companies, until around 2pm. Everything is — obviously — fully restored, and you may now safely resume your regularly-scheduled blogging.
After finding out that my MySQL backups from bH were corrupt (as well as all of my backups from all of my domains for the last few months), and after taking steps to ensure that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again, I was finally able to fix blogHarrisburg today. Due to the loss of the database backups, I won’t be able to “fix” the existing mangled posts. ...
Bear with me. This is going to be a long post. It all began after someone sent me a link to an article further explaining why the game is getting really bad for those trying to etch out a living through print media. This time, it’s the New Yorker announcing that the clock is running:
While the Patriot-News is busy yelling “It’s On!” at people complaining of plagiarism, Jersey Mike is busy thoroughly scooping them by liveblogging from this morning’s political event. Hop over to his site to watch the fun.
This coming Tuesday (3/11/08), blogHarrisburg.com and floor9.com will be going offline for about four hours beginning at 4am. Steadcom is moving me to a new rack in the Pacific Rack datacenter for bandwidth and network improvements. With any luck, come Tuesday morning, you’ll check blogHarrisburg for your daily news fix and find that nothing has [...]
As predicted in my last post, the blogHarrisburg forums are officially live as of 2/29/08! If you haven’t already signed up for an account, now’s a great time to rush in and secure that all-important low user number.
I want to take a moment to point out the latest contributor to blogHarrisburg: The Freedom From Patriot News Censorship Blog. Aside from commentary on our local media (always a hot button issue for me personally), the site talks about the always-popular topic of censorship on the PennLive forums. Be sure to take a moment and head over!
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Who writes this stuff? Below are the Central PA Bloggers who spend most of their bandwidth writing about the region -- not just necessarily from it:
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blogHarrisburg is going to be undergoing some cosmetic changes over these next few days. We're looking for a clean, well-organized theme that's news-worthy, but still easy on the eyes. Although we already have a few favorites lined up to try out, we'd love to hear your thoughts! Head over to the blogHarrisburg Forums and give us your feedback or suggestions.
