My site was down all last night. I called my new ISP, HostMonster, and they said it was from a lightening strike. Here’s their official word from an e-mail this morning:
Due to a catastrophic power failure, some HostMonster servers are currently without power. Sprkus.com is currently hosted on one of these servers. Rocky Mountain Power is working to replace hardware as quickly as possible. The current ETA from Rocky Mountain Power is 7:30pm MST. This outage is affecting most of Orem, Utah making it a top priority.
The outage occurred approximately 5pm MST. We were able to prevent data loss as the server you are on was safely shut down under backup power. We apologize for any inconvenience and will have your service restored as quickly as possible.
This site appears to be back up already. Here’s hoping it stays that way.
Have you ever gotten a voice mail from someone who didn’t realize their phone was on? You hear a muffled voice or two in the background — muffled because the phone is still in their pocket or purse.
Don’t you always listen to that message like it’s the most important message of your life? You replay it like two or three times to try and make out every little detail. Like there’s some secret messege somebody is trying to give you.
You think to yourself, “He … he just ordered a spicy chicken sandwich! He must be at Wendy’s. What does that mean?!? I should write this down: Large Frosty … It sounds like Bill. I gotta Google this!”
Continue reading ‘Has anyone ever accidentally left you a voicemail?’
I have been tweaking this Web site for a year trying to speed up page loading times. Depending on the time of day, it takes up to 40 seconds just to load the front page. I thought it was my fault.
I thought the themes I was using in WordPress were just too large. I thought I was using too many plugins. The main reason I originally looked into transfering my photos to Flickr instead of hosting them all in this site was because the site was just really bogged down.
It would take 10 seconds on a good day to load each new page. At times the site was unreadable.
After re-installing a fresh copy of WordPress and switching down to the simpler default theme yesterday, the site didn’t run any faster. So I started to believe that the fault was in my Web host, Network Solutions.
Turns out I was right.
Continue reading ‘Network Solutions brings in SWAT team’
I’ve added a random Baumann quote generator to the sidebar, pre-loaded with the following six quotes:
1. If you throw enough spaghetti against the wall, some of it’s gonna stick.
2. If you’re gonna make an omelette, you gotta break some eggs.
3. I’m getting back on the bike
4. If I showed my (rooster) to those (homosexuals), there’d be a riot in the streets.
5. I am an Amoeba!
6. I scream, I scream, I scream for ice cream!
If you’ve got more, leave a comment and I’ll add them to the Baumannism generator.
This Web site has been moved to Sprkus.com, something you may not have noticed because the old domain automatically forwarded you.
Why Sprkus? Cause Sparkus was taken. And Sprkus is very Web 2.0 with the missing vowel and all. Like Flickr. As a side note, Sparkus was my nickname in college.
Apparently, some users of Internet Explorer were having trouble viewing this Web site lately. The header and side columns would show, but the middle column — you know, the one with all the posts — was missing and jumbled at the bottom of the page.
So I switched to the default WordPress theme while I find a new look.
I think software updates knocked the old theme out of usability. I also noticed that the theme switch has cured a problem I had with my blog and Flickr communicating with each other.
So pardon my blog’s mess while I update the theme and explore Flickrizing my gallery.
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