You might have noticed that my entries have grown sparse these days. Part of the problem is me, but part of the problem is that the "scheduled" setting is not working properly, so those entries that I had written for you are not appearing as they are supposed to. For example, this morning's streaming video appeared three and a half hours after it was scheduled to appear (at 9am) and then, it only appeared after I republished my blog, and then rebuilt it afterwards. GRRR! Needless to say, I am frustrated by this, but our behind-the-scenes computer-tamer, Tim, is working on the problem and hopefully it will be corrected soon. Either that, or we'll just have a collective nervous breakdown or temper tantrum, as fits our personal style.
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It's impossible to pay attention to everything in the visual field at once. If we could, magicians would be out of business: most "magic" tricks work by distracting the viewers' attention while the real trick is being done in plain sight.
The picture below will link you to a quick animation. The blue ring will gradually get smaller until it obscures the three "8"s, then continue to shrink until the figures are visible again.
[world: /$] root% fsck -f
are you sure? y
checking
6,034,932,778 files, 5,843,314,092 used, 1,253,913,456 free (67 frags, 173 blocks, 54.6% fragmentation)
bad blocks fsck not able to repair
filesystem is NOT clean
These are two videos that appeared to have disappeared from YouTube for a while, thanks to takedown notices from the distributors of the film. Fortunately, they appear to be back, which is pure awesomeness.
I now have a mental image of Tim in leopard-skin tights with a whip in one hand and a chair in the other, madly trying to control a ferocious server.
Bob
I just tortured Tim myself with some first-day-on-Sb drama. I imagine he's having a difficult morning. He did fix everything on my blog already, though. Now I have to see what else I can break. . . hmmmm. . .
bob, i couldn't resist. i told tim what you said, and now the office staff at Seed are laughing at him (you do realize that tim is a very tall, big guy, don't you?).
bioephemera, nearly all of us have broken our blogs somehow at some point since we've started here, so i am guessing this is the reason why SB isn't adding bunches of us at the same time anymore .. they don't want tim to abandon us!