08th Jul 2003
Portland Server Panic
My O’Reilly blog from the OSCON sessions yesterday is up and awaiting any comments you might have. I had a heck of a time posting it this morning: the server would give me an error, so I would try again. The server would give me another error, and so we went on the overloaded posting carousel for a few turns. next thing I know, my blog is on the site no less than THREE TIMES!
Now, this wouldn’t bother me on my own blog (cyberspace equivalent of a ghost town), but on such a high profile site as the O’Reilly Network, it was a little rattling… They’ll fire me! (oh, wait, I don’t work for them per se, I attend a conference, and write everything in sight, but it’s something of a barter) Another thought was “Ohmigawd! There are millions of people laughing at my misfortune right now! How could anyone possibly post the same thing THREE TIMES!?”
Hmm, I thought … maybe I need to call someone at O’Reilly? No no no, don’t do that - because they’ll FIRE ME! Oh wait, they can’t, etc.
So I collected myself, and calmly went to my super-secret private weblog control page. “Aha!” I said, with a twinkle in my eye (well, it could have been a bug, I’m not sure) - “I can delete these!”
And so I did. Two of them. Leaving the One True Version of Monday’s events up, the way I had intended a full 15 minutes earlier.
I am hopeful that my next 5 or so posts there are uneventful. If not, I’ll have to deal with the “delete, or run away” state of pure adrenaline, pupils dilated as I see link after link of the exact same blog entry.
