Database maintenance
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dw_maintenanceGood morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!
About My Interests Here
Oct. 23rd, 2025 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineYesterday, if memory serves, I added Public Health to my profile's list of interests. I consider that choice on my part long overdue.
Weird things in grocery stores
Oct. 22nd, 2025 10:33 pmdewlineI am seeing boxes of Kellogg's product in my suburban Ottawa grocery store. Branded Wednesday and Stranger Things Demogorgon Crunch.
My brain, of course, takes in the packaging on the latter, and flashes back to a first-season episode of Space: 1999 called "Dragon's Domain". Scared the hell out of grade-school-me when I first saw it on CBC Regina TV. I cannot help suspecting that if the the modern marketing mavens at Kellogg's saw that episode of that series, the title critter would be cartoonified on the front of boxes of something called Space: 1999 - Dragon's Delight.
My brain, of course, takes in the packaging on the latter, and flashes back to a first-season episode of Space: 1999 called "Dragon's Domain". Scared the hell out of grade-school-me when I first saw it on CBC Regina TV. I cannot help suspecting that if the the modern marketing mavens at Kellogg's saw that episode of that series, the title critter would be cartoonified on the front of boxes of something called Space: 1999 - Dragon's Delight.
Update on the Weird Happenstance
Oct. 21st, 2025 07:33 pmdewlineIt's been fixed. City Hall's website is back to normal now. Since I posted my complaint on Bluesky...
https://bsky.app/profile/dewline.bsky.social/post/3m3qidgsrak25
https://bsky.app/profile/dewline.bsky.social/post/3m3qidgsrak25
Weird Happenstance of 21 October 2025
Oct. 21st, 2025 06:35 pmdewlineAs noted on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/dewline.bsky.social/post/3m3qezg6ud225
"Blocked by our security service"?
https://bsky.app/profile/dewline.bsky.social/post/3m3qezg6ud225
"Blocked by our security service"?
AWS outage
Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 amalierak posting in dw_maintenanceDW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
Can-Con Weekend 2025
Oct. 17th, 2025 09:04 pmdewlineI'd love to go. I used to be a volunteer working with the organizing committee on designing promo stuff.
Two problems with going there in person:
1) No masking-required policy in place on public transit. If I can't walk to a destination or get a lift from a trustworthy driver, I only use public transit.
2) The venue is in Kanata, at the other end of Ottawa from where I live in Orléans.
So.
If you're going, please be careful. 😷
Two problems with going there in person:
1) No masking-required policy in place on public transit. If I can't walk to a destination or get a lift from a trustworthy driver, I only use public transit.
2) The venue is in Kanata, at the other end of Ottawa from where I live in Orléans.
So.
If you're going, please be careful. 😷
