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JOINT STATEMENT

i know i could figure out or let bill figure out a way to make this entry alternating colors, but that's just too much work.

you're not nuts if you think you've been thrown back in time a couple days on our site. you have. been thrown back in time a couple days. it happened once before. but the only thing "lost" that time was some comments. evidently, our "host" did some kind of "update" yesterday. i placed the word "host" in quotation marks cuz i'm not sure if that's the correct term (i'm pretty sure, but not completely) -- and i placed the word "update" in quotation marks because it appears that what's happened has been more of a "backdate." i placed that term in quotation marks cuz i just made it up. at least in THIS context.

so, yeah, bill's last entry's gone -- and a bunch of comments, too, anji -- send me that link again, k? bill put the iraq war counter thingy (yeah. THINGY. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT WORD?) back up himself again, cuz, you know, he's, umm, well, bill.

anyway, our i-t guy is on the case. we had his wife wake him up last night when we tried to pull up the site and the only thing on the screen was a message to us:

29 May, 2003

so, we were like, umm, wtf, god? is that you? what do you want, god? talk to us. we're listening. and hoped he'd give us a link to follow. no link. so we called the i-t guy. he outright LAUGHED at us, then YELLED at us. for not calling him earlier, i think. and then he sent an e-mail to our "host."

we don't understand it either, but here's part of it:

Apparently, after a lengthy downtime today, either the box they were on was modified/reinstalled in some way, or they changed machines. Now, both sites don't have access to the perl module DB_File. In the past, I've had issues with DB_File being present on some of your machines, and not present on others. Which was okay, since the site in question was moved to a machine with DB_File.

I would like something similar to happen now. I need access to DB_File.

I don't think that it is unreasonable at all of me to require that I have access to DB_File -- in fact, I think that it is rather unreasonable that it not be present. It is a standard component of the perl module libary. I can see why it would be unreasonable for me to expect that some obscure module should be present, but DB_File is a part of nearly every perl installation.

so, umm, we, umm, we think he kicked their ass. we'll see. he really likes this "host," but we'll see.

funny, though, when he complains about the "problems," it makes ME laugh. cuz we ALL know what a mess blogger/blogster and the comment things are. so we're not really pissed at all. but we're really happy i-t man is.

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everybody (bill and jax) is waiting for me to finish here so we can head to starbucks. so i'm outa here. bill's heading to terre haute with doc cyborg later, i'm gonna do some work around the house, some shopping, and some reading. you all have a good weekend!

Posted by Stacey at September 13, 2003 09:43 AM