I didn’t even have time to yell "timber!"
June 26th, 2008 5:00:36 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
Well, it seems that all of my sites were down from sometime yesterday afternoon until about noon today, including my email server. Worse yet, when they were resurrected, all content (both database and page content) was reverted to the way things stood sometime early yesterday morning. All comments that users made since that time, as well as a minor theme change I made, were lost.
I’m still waiting for an explanation from my hosting service. Their sites were down, too, so I couldn’t even send them email or log an incident online. I’ve always raved about how dependable they were. I guess I should have knocked on wood.
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Good day. I’m Don and I’m on an intrepid mission to find the mythical source of the 123 meme. I’m just passing through. TA
Hi Don, Here’s my contribution to it, in which I link to the one who tagged me, Teeni.
That’s definitely an interesting mission.
Indeed. I hope he updates us all on it when he reaches the source.
Eh, not all that interested in the source. It was an interesting meme, but I have a forboding feeling it comes from 4chan.
4chan, the 4father of memes.
And of Anonymous.
I was just reading those Chairman quotes on builderau.com.au and Michael Dell’s comment caused me to do a double-take:
I think Michael needs to double-check his facts there.
I mean yeah, you gotta give Bill his props, he started the business without even having a finished product and has pretty much made a multi-billion dollar company on promising to deliver products he doesn’t even have yet. He’s a marketing genius, but I wouldn’t call Windows a productivity enhancer. Nor would I call his ideal development model open or standards based or innovative.
erm, sorry. wrong post to comment about that on. wonder how that happened.
That’s OK — I knew which one you were referring to.
The one thing Windows did do is to put a (non-Mac) PC into almost every home — something that I’m sure makes Michael Dell very happy. Of course, if it hadn’t been Windows, then probably some other improvement over DOS (other than OS/2) would have evolved.
In a perfect world, one would wish it had been Linux — but that didn’t appear quickly enough, and it still hasn’t quite become easy enough for a non-techie to use — which is what kept SCO out of households.
too true, although I just recently saw a book on O’Reilly that gives me hope. Ubuntu for the non-geek. I have a friend who is running an Ubunutu box with hardware mostly designed for Windows. So far not much in the way of complaints.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu, but I still haven’t tried installing it anywhere.
So have I, and ditto, although now that my laptop is paid for, I’ll have a chance to try it. Well, once I get a hard drive for it, which should be by the end of August.