8. September, 2002 - Weekend update

• Well, I've spent most of the weekend playing with server configuration things. I've only said either D'Ohh! or Duh! a few times, but one of them seems to have taken the server down hard enough that I had to go to the actual machine and reboot it rather forcefully. I hate it when that happens.
  
  The point of the server work is to try and make things more stable in the long run. I think I'm making progress in the right direction. But taking a day off from regular updates here gave me time to think a bit, and I think I'm going to be taking more breaks from a daily update for a while. I've got a lot of longer pieces and essays I'd like to finish up (there are about a dozen that I've got half-written) before they get any older.
  
  So why should you care? Well, if you see me go a few days without an update, don't panic. I suspect updates are going to be irregular through the rest of the month, and if they do show up daily, that'll be the exception, rather than the rule.
• If you're hungry for things to read every day, check out Topic: Commentary and Essays on Life and Events. A guy who's been writing 500 words a day for over 70 years. And now he's got a blog. [ev]
• Planning to vote in the primary on Tuesday? You might want to look at the Star-Tribune Voter Guide first. They've got pointers to a lot of information about the candidates, including those who haven't gotten a lot of coverage to date. [strib]
• E-Gray : Government favors at auction prices. Heh! [some guy]
• Montana hunter's death raises 'mad elk' disease concerns. More information about chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. [strib]

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