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Told You So!

For months, whenever I’ve gone to see a show at Belltown’s venerable music venue The Crocodile Cafe, I’ve looked around longingly and said “You know, in 5 years this will be a sushi bar or some yuppie’s f*cking condo.” Little did I know that it would all too soon turn out to be true.

The Crocodile
The Crocodile

Yesterday the buzz started hitting the Seattle blogs about the possibility that the Croc was shutting down shop for good. It seems that completely out of nowhere, in the midst of a rush to book their spring lineup, the owners simply decided to call it quits. Even the employees were shocked, finding out just over a week before Christmas that they were out of a job.

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Flat Tire

On the way home from the bar last night I accidentally stepped in a pothole. No big deal, right? Well, that caused a major blowout in my trusty Rainbow flip flops.

Flat Tire
Flat Tire

Anybody that knows me knows that I’m a bit obsessive when it comes to my flops. I insist on the best, and that’s why I wear Rainbows. The drawback, however, to these excellent flops is that it takes months to properly break them in. They’re like a good leather jacket – they only get better with age. Now I have to start all over…

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So it appears that my post about home-built speaker stands has been featured on Make Magazine’s blog. The sudden inrush of traffic was so dramatic that it overwhelmed my server before my monit alarms could even go off. Apache spawned a shit-ton of connections, MySQL was overwhelmed, and quite quickly my whole blog went down. My box hit a 1-minute load level of around 80-90 before it finally stopped responding to connections.

Fortunately through monit’s web interface I was eventually able to bring Apache down for long enough to get sshd back up. I managed to log onto my box and drop in wp-cache-2, an excellent Wordpress plugin that automatically caches your posts. 5 minutes later my blog was up and running and it’s now humming around at a much more reasonable level.

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