I’ve gone corporate.

For the past two years, this blog has been hosted by what one might call the kumbaya circle of servers. Gridley is Carleton’’s student-run Unix server, a sandbox for Carleton folks to build and destroy their own little Internet castles.

Like the harmonious existence it represents, Gridley is a beautiful idea with just a few quirks. Every once in a while it goes endearingly awry. The major failure that that brought my blog down for two weeks was one such bump in the road. Endearing. Really.

A younger, more idealistic me would laugh this all off. I’d let the blog go back up when it was ready, and I’d shrug it off as a gentle reminder of the quirkly world in which we live. Hell, I’m surpised I didn’t make my blog tie-dye.

Call me a sellout. But a precocious, well-paid young professional such as myself needs a precocious young professional web presence. So from now on, I will happily pay my $3 a month to get the good things in life. Good things like redundancy and 24-hour support. For less than the price of my precocious young professional half-caf skim milk caramel machiavelliato with extra whipped cream and a shot of cholesterol.

My old posts will be restored as soon as I have access to them. Like the idealist I am, I never bothered to back up my database tables. But I see a bright future for my posts. All that money I’m blowing on this site ought to be an incentive to write some new ones.

Oh yeah, and hold the cholesterol.

Posted on August 3rd, 2006 by Lee
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