This week marked the longest period that Highfiber.org or Guttervomit.com have ever been offline, a total of more than 48 hours. We experienced a catastrophic hard drive failure, and have had to wait on on-site tech support to replace the burned-out drive, install the OS and other software, then copy over as much of the old data as was salvageable. Thankfully, none of the web data was hit, as far as I can tell (although it’s kinda hard to do a thorough inspection of over 15gb of files, nearly half of which is user-generated).
A lot of things happened this week:
- I had my ass chewed out by a client (which I deserved, so I’m not bitching about it)
- I was in several meetings with investors, one of which is set to write a very healthy check with our names on it next week (fingers firmly crossed on this one)
- I helped hammer out a hopefully profitable partnership with a big local game publisher
- I drove home drunk thrice
- I actually won a little money on online poker (then lost it again in subsequent tables)
- I saw Sideways, finally (capsule review: interesting and complex, but not as good as I was expecting)
- I wrote up the concept for my next personal web project, which is going to be a dating site of all things :)
- I read a good 80% of Naked Economics and have started to finally gain an understanding of how inflation and free markets work. I doubt I’ll ever become a real economist, but it sure is nice to at least get the fundamentals.