Monthly Archive for September, 2006

Downtime (& Upgrades?)

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Darin
on September 28, 2006
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Dear Site Owner,

(mt) Media Temple would like to notify you and the Contacts on your Account of upcoming network and data center relocation that may affect some of your hosting related services.

DATE/TIME WINDOW:
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START: Friday, September 29th 2006 10:30PM PDT
END: Saturday, September 30th 2006 4:30AM PDT

AFFECTED RESOURCES:
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DATA CENTER: (LA-IDC2)
SERVERS: Listed Below

MAINTENANCE ACTION:
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Expert staff from (mt) Media Temple will be relocating servers from the (LA-IDC2) data center to the new Tier-4 facility (EL-IDC3). This maintenance action will require that your server’s connectivity to the internet be taken offline for some period of time and therefore customers should prepare for a disruption of service to web, email, and ftp. It is projected that only a small portion of the maintenance window will actually be needed and servers will be restored before the window’s end date/time.

Meticulous planning has been performed to ensure that the procedure is completed safely with appropriate emergency roll-back procedures in place. (mt) Media Temple has made backups of all affected servers and storage devices. The procedure represents a highly positive end result for customers as the new facility provides greatly enhanced levels of power redundancy, cooling efficiency and security.

For more information, customers are encouraged to visit a special area of the (mt) Media Temple website specifically relating to this data center relocation project:

http://www.mediatemple.net/go/idc2-idc3/

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Could this also mean that I’ll be finally be getting upgraded to ss 6.0 meaning that I can start doing email on my new email domain? Nah, that’s probably too good to be true.

Greepeace vs. Apple

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Greepeace’s latest target, Apple.

We love Apple. Apple knows more about “clean” design than anybody, right? So why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contain hazardous substances that other companies have abandoned? A cutting edge company shouldn’t be cutting lives short by exposing children in China and India to dangerous chemicals. That’s why we Apple fans need to demand a new, cool product: a greener Apple.

Now I don’t know anything about how environmentally friendly or unfriendly Apple products are, but I do know there is a problem with the way Greenpeace is presenting their cause. Rather then restate the problem, here’s the email I sent to them.
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Entrance Ceremony

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Darin
on September 2, 2006
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The ceremony was held at the Nippon Budokan. Since the university has between 60 and 70 thousand undergraduate students, the Budokan is one of the few places that can house the ceremonies with some sense of fashion in a way that a baseball stadium can’t offer. Even so, two ceremonies are held, one in the morning and one in the afternoon depending on what department you are in. The Art Department was in the morning. Unfortunately, my D-SLR was having issues around this time and was in getting fixed. That means that these pictures were all taken with a disposable camera and today I scanned the negatives with my film scanner which is why the quality isn’t so good.
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