Down for a period of time

Situation: We lost the main “read slave.” No data was lost. (We have five copies at all times.) But we are missing a critical machine, and have to rebuild it.

The blog still works. Abby has proposed a “down” bookpile contest…

5:11 Eastern US. Downtime happens, but not updating this message was inexcusable. We will keep this message up to date from now on. (Tim)

5:11 Eastern US. John is working to rebuild the machine. I suspect it will not be up tonight. (Tim)

5:46 Eastern US. No new news.

9:13 Eastern US. John’s still working hard. I promised to bake him a cake as a reward. (Abby)

10:16 Eastern US. Give us another hour or so, we’re hoping to get the site back up tonight! (Abby)

10:48pm Eastern US. Mere moments, folks. (Abby)

9:51am EST: I thought we’d scotched them, but our DB issues seem to have come back. I’m looking into them right now, will update as info comes available (John)

10:59am EST: John’s still figuring out what the problem is, and it’s looking like it’ll be a while. (That means you have more time to enter the bookpile contest - Abby

I wish the Google Books team would buy LibraryThing. As far as I can tell, the LibraryThing metadata could probably be plugged almost seamlessly into Google Book Search. Crucially, the LT community has already done much of the hard work of combining editions, which is the key to enabling effective communities around particular titles.

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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge awarded the actress’ estranged husband, Coley Laffoon, primary physical custody of their five-year-old son, Homer, and an unspecified amount of child support.

Heche, who’s headed back to Vancouver next month to start shooting the second season of Men in Trees, will have alternate weekend visits with the boy.

A source told E! News, however, that Laffoon—who was originally gunning for $33,000 a month in spousal and child support to maintain the “marital standard of living” to which he had become accustomed—got “far below his original demands.”

I read the filings of both parties. This seems like a pretty questionable decision. Dad is a buffoon.

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