We're Back...

[Jason Dunn]

I'm sure a few hearts stopped when PPCT went belly-up there for a few hours, but thanks to the efforts of the dynamic duo (Jorj and Janak - with help from Scott), the site is humming along nicely now. Whew. In case you missed it, for a few hours we had what I think is perhaps my best haiku yet:<br /><br />We are off the grid<br />Like water over the falls<br />Our server tumbles<br /><br />Doesn't that just move you? For those that don't know the back story to that, every time we move the site, or it goes down for some reason, I write up a nice haiku - I think the stress over going offline juxtaposed with the peace of the haiku is what makes them so fulfilling. Or maybe it's because our infrastructure is so complicated now, when things go down, all I'm good for is writing poetry. :lol:<br /><br /><b>UPDATE:</b> Ok, somethin' dun got broke again. :mecry: The site will be slow for a bit because the load is quite high.

[Steven Cedrone]

We are off the grid
Like water over the falls
Our server tumbles


That was the best one yet! Do we have a record of every Haiku you have posted? If we do, maybe we should post them all somewhere...:wink:

Steve

[c38b2]

I've always liked limericks - do you think you could write oneinstead of a haiku the next time PPCT goes down? :D

[toddbil]

No No No!!!!! :boohoo:


Glad it's Back....


Todd

[Steven Cedrone]

I've always liked limericks - do you think you could write one instead of a haiku the next time PCT goes down? :D

Sacrilege!!! :wink:

Steve

[GoldKey]

That was the best one yet! Do we have a record of every Haiku you have posted? If we do, maybe we should post them all somewhere...:wink:

Steve

I second that. I would love to see a haiku archive.

How about a haiku contest?

[ctmagnus]

Finally! My broken heart is now mending itself.

or:

Pocket PC Thoughts...
gone! Woe is me! Woe is me!
It's back! Celebrate!

Take yer pick.

[dmy]

Maybe a contest to tell of our moment of panic and withdrawl symptoms while PPCT was down??


Well.... ok.... only a moment or two of withdrawl....


D.

[Jason Dunn]

I've always liked limericks - do you think you could write oneinstead of a haiku the next time PPCT goes down? :D

I'm incapable of writing limericks, due to a lack of Irish genes, and furthermore, everytime I think of limericks, Data from ST:TNG comes to mind: "There was once a lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a..." 8O

[dmacburry2003]

I was over at the Microsoft PPC chat when I went to refer to something on this site and BOOP! It was gone! I screamed. But its alright now. Everythings OK. Its going to be just fine.... LOL. Glad your back.

Nice poetry btw 8)

[ombu]

:drinking: I was finishing a post and drinking a martini my wife just prepared for me (only one, I swear) and when clicking Preview everything went blank, oops, that's muscle I thought, my new 2210 broke the site!!! :twisted: And, yes, my heart stopped, I never meant to hurt friends, good friends :wink: , so next time it'll be a vodka martini, no more gin. :mrgreen:

[mjfalcone]

Jason, that's a very nice haiku. It's a very old and difficult art form to perform.

Of course I'm reading it on my iPAQ from the local emergency room because I HAD FREAKING HEART FAILURE when I tried to get to the site and blurp. Big zero... 8O

The though of being with out this bastion of Pocket PC goodness is just too much for some of us.

Good job getting the site back guys. I'll just go home now and sob quietly in relief... :D

[David Prahl]

Quick! Somone post a link on Slashdot! :D

Although saddened that I couldn't visit the site, I knew that a great Haiku was in the making. Good one, Jason!

blue screen of death (again)
illegal operation
control fist of death...

[c38b2]

blue screen of death (again)
That's 4 or 6 syllables depending on whether you intended to include "again" as part of the poem. The first line must have 5 :wink:

[David Prahl]

8O
I can count. Really.

[Jason Dunn]

8O I can count. Really.

It's ok buddy, that's why you're on the review team and not the math team. :mrgreen:

[Aerestis]

haha, well that was funny.

there's a nice haiku thread going on at http://www.cgtalk.com, I think it's funny that a computer graphic forum and a pocketpc forum resorts to haiku.

Haiku must be a universally enjoyable art.

Like lawn darts.

[stitics]

I know this is off topic, but what are the criteria for a haiku again? I think I might give it a shot.

[Jason Dunn]

I know this is off topic, but what are the criteria for a haiku again? I think I might give it a shot.

5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. Typically incorporating some element of nature...

[T-Will]

I wrote a couple haikus that explain haiku:

Haiku works like this
First you need five, then seven
And then five again

You need syllables
First you need five, then seven
And then five again

Haiku works like this
You need syllables, first five
Then seven, then five

(I think these work, right?)

[stitics]

Thank you...very much.

I would like to take this opportunity to say that I thought the post wasn't taking. I had absoloutely NO intention to post twice...let alone FOUR times. I apologize profusely.

Edit: I have, apparently, been smoking crack. I don't know what I was talking about above. It was all in my head. :D

[Jonathon Watkins]

What 4 posts? :wink: We have ways of dealing with these things. 8)

Nice to be back up gain.

[c38b2]

(I think these work, right?)
Yes they do. Very good! :D

[Jason Dunn]

The server load is about 15, so things are still sloooow.

[JvanEkris]

Jason,

We had similar problems a couple of weeks ago. What helped us a lot was caching the compiled PHP scripts on the server (before that, they were compiled on every request). This reduced the load on the server from 40 to about 5....

If you want i can ask our tech-guy to cantact your tech-guy with the details......

Jaap

[mountainguy]

Red dawn cracked the sky
Fire and fantasy overhead
Thoughts site renewed.

[T-Will]

Oh my love is back!
Sweet like the honey of bees
Pocket PC Thoughts!

P.S. Can haiku have punctuation?

[Pat Logsdon]

But soft! What light through
yonder window breaks? Tis Thoughts,
Where's stylus? Oh - ow!



Shakespeare via Basho via a Vogon. :mrgreen:

[Jonathon Watkins]

I don't think we're quite out of the woods yet guys. :?

Have a peek at the Register's Nigerian 419 Haiku (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35867.html) competition in the meanwhile.

Stitics, go easy on that crack now ya-hear! :wink:

[Jonathan1]

*sighs* Jason. Didn't someone tell you daisy chaining your spare pocket PCs to increase your computing power and using it to run the site doesn't work well?!?! ;) :D

Glad you guys are back online.

[Christian]

It is amazing
That so many have free time
To write these Haiku!

It must be we normally read PPCT all day. :wink:

[klinux]

Site is going down
Jason writes clever haiku
Is it over yet?

[LarDude]

Jason,...poetry in the land of beef and oil? (btw, I'm typing very quietly).
Shouldn't you be careful and keep it quiet, you might get run out of town (and province).

You aren't thinking of starting a new site pocketpoetrythoughts.com, are you?
:wink:

[T-Will]

No, it's not over
The madness still continues
Please make it stop now!

:lol:

[Jason Dunn]

Red dawn cracked the sky
Fire and fantasy overhead
Thoughts site renewed.

That's quite beautiful, but the second line has an extra syllable. ;-)

[Jason Dunn]

Jason,...poetry in the land of beef and oil?

What, you've never heard of Cowboy Poetry (http://www.cowboypoetry.com/)? :lol: (not that I'm a cowboy mind you)

[T-Will]

It loads so swiftly
Like the flight of an eagle
Pocket PC Thoughts

(Assuming "PC" is two syllables)

[Wiggin]

I too was in the middle of writing a response in the forum when the lights went out... little did I know that a simple Haiku could express what happened next! :lol:

The shock was sudden!
Terror and horror for all
The Site ... bring it back!!!

We're all glad that the faithfull PPCT team saved the world and brought peace and calm back to the masses!
:way to go:

[Janak Parekh]

We had similar problems a couple of weeks ago. What helped us a lot was caching the compiled PHP scripts on the server (before that, they were compiled on every request). This reduced the load on the server from 40 to about 5....
I'll pass the tidbit onto Fabrizio, but I know that's not the problem -- Fabrizio already fixed it. And I bet he already knows about the caching. But thanks. :)

--janak