Sorry for the downtime today, the hard drive in our web server died. That server always was flaky, it would totally lock up every 2-3 weeks and require a hard reboot. An iffy hard drive could have been the reason for that flakiness, but it’s hard to say when you don’t physically have the machine in front of you.

Our hosting company took about 3 hours (grrr…) to get a new hard drive in. After that, Doug worked like mad to restore everything. Our database server was fine so we didn’t have to restore backups.

Thanks to Doug for a heroic Saturday afternoon save, and thanks to everyone for your patience.

I wanted a sleeve for my new 15″ MacBookPro . Incase makes good neoprene sleeves, but I didn’t want to spend $30. Sam’s guide to making your own laptop sleeve out of corduroy looked promising, but I don’t have a sewing machine.

The super budget solution was to tap into that other Force that binds the universe together - duct tape. All you do is take the paper fiber sleeve that the MacBookPro ships with and liberally apply duct tape. You could go the extra mile and follow the isoglossia guide to doing the same thing except with an extra layer of foam padding.

Before and after: