Utilikilt Alert

I've just learned from a reliable source that Patrick is going to be wearing the Utilikilt again tonight. Must be in honor of our LAN party on the show tonight. Either that or it's sweeps.

Kate and Kilts

Two announcements for Screen Savers fans. First, Patrick will be wearing the kilt again tonight. And second, Kate Botello will be co-hosting with me on Monday while Patrick is in Las Vegas for Comdex. The two events are not related. I think.

I Hear You Knockin' But You Can't Come In

Yes my message boards were down for almost 24 hours yesterday. As were Cat's, Morgan's, and Megan's sites. They're all hosted by the generous folks at Annex.com. The outage was caused by a server move that took a little longer than expected. Mike Chandler from 2Xtreme media explains...

Greg sends his humblest apologies to y'all for the downtime but asked that I brag a bit about the new facility, so here goes... Faster pipe with BGP routing for redundant feed, 24 hour NOC, impressive power generators to keep your site online in the event of a significant power outage, and 24 hour security to ward off evil server bandits. As an added bonus, our 2Xtreme Media servers will be neighbors in the same colo facility, so I'll still have hands on access to your server as needed (that's more of a bonus for me, I suppose). We appreciate the fact that none of you tried to choke Gregory or the Annex crew yesterday for keeping you offline, but we still feel bad. Hopefully the swifter connection speeds and greater uptimes will make up for yesterday's outage.

Apology accepted. And thanks for the continued great service. Leoville Town Square alone sucks up about 30GB of Annex's bandwidth each month. I really appreciate their generosity! That's one of the reasons I spread the site out over four servers now. It's all accessible from Leoville.com, but if any one site is down, you can always reach the rest by going there directly:

Leoville.com, the main site	http://www.leoville.com
Leo's Mob, my mobile phone picture blog	http://leoville.textamerica.com
Two Shows Nightly, my text blog (you're soaking in it)	http://leo.typepad.com
Leoville Town Square, the message boards	http://leovilletownsquare.com

Here Comes the Alamanac

I just received word from Peachpit that the rebound 2004 Almanac will be released on Wednesday, October 1st. The Amazon listing should return today and they should be shipping by next Monday. Phew!

Working....

I know there has been precious little activity here in the past two weeks. Partly that's because I've been traveling - Toronto and Barcelona - partly it's because I'm still working the bugs out in the new blog engine. I think it's mostly usable at this point. I know comments aren't working. I'm not sure why, but I'll work on it when I can. I will start putting in updates this week and I hope to get back to daily posting as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.