Naughty Bad Server Falls Asleep On Job

March 5, 2010 in GLORIOUS SERVER, Wordsmoker Server Sorrows

Some days I sit with my guitar and sing about fruits. Some days I take off to the wilderness of Scotland and hunt man. Some days – when the weather is just right – I attach an understandably nervous cow to a hang-glider and push it off a mountain and into a short career of “cow-gliding”/panicking air traffic control. Some days I sit and watch the server crash and wait for it to come back up. Guess which day yesterday was?

Well, it was a mixture of both, if I’m honest. I had killed early, and was dressing the corpse with oranges already mid-way through the second verse in my head when I got a Facebook tweet in my Buzzspace telling me the server was “down”. I responded as quick as a panther and pawed the mouse off my desk, embedding it in the wall opposite. I then decided to use the keyboard to type a letter to the hosting company.

Unfortunately my letter got lost in their email, and they wrote back in the middle of the night to me apologizing for the delay.

Anyway, they’ve taught me how to restart the server myself now, which should save a lot of time in the future.

With this new power I will become even greater and one day rule all the seas known to man.

Oh – sorry!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/rhea-pollstry/ Rhea Pollstry

    That photo totally makes up for it.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/voxpopuli/ VoxPopuli

    Next stop – hacking Alan’s site and replacing it with dolphin porn.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s all funny now, but some of us almost died. Have you ever seen a hardcore heroin addict cut off from his or her supply without the aid of methadone? I haven’t either, but somehow, I’m guessing that my reaction was a LOT worse.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/sarahheartburn/ SarahHeartburn

    So your server is down. You’re depressed most of the time, too. Isn’t it nice to have something in common?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/whyamihere/ WhyamIhere?

    With this new power you could help these guys.

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  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/baroness/ Baroness

    enter my speed-freak mind oh so fast

    enter my speed-freak mind fast oh so fast

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypp1y9zfAv8

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/rosie-cheeks/ Rosie Cheeks

    ….indeed, there was an unsettling and eerie quietude all over the planet. even the animals felt it. i suspect emergency room activity was also at an all time high.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/belltolls/ Belltolls

    When computery things happen I like to stare at the screen and say, “You lousy fuckers…you lousy fuckers…,” over and over again — but very quietly. I am not sure WHO the lousy fuckers are.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/nefariousnewt/ NefariousNewt

    That picture looks like a rejected cover photo for Atom Heart Mother.