I need a small cabin in the woods

What did I do to provoke the maelstrom of technological failings that plagued me for the last few days? It was a perfect storm. Sometimes it was just people I know like Rebecca calling me because her iBook wouldn’t boot anymore. Most of it was aimed directly at me.

I have a few boxes hosted with different ISPs, in different countries even, yet they both had upstream routing problems hit them. I have a database of web sites that I check to see if they update and suddenly 20,000 of them vanished from the database. It kept about 50,000 in the database. Is my computer exercising some kind of editorial decisions now? The mighty Spam Assassin started choking on incoming emails and I had to turn it off because it was slowing down mail processing. Verisign’s whois went down for a bit. However, the icing on the cake was the mysterious disappearance of one of my servers at about 2:30pm yesterday. I could ping it but some visciousness had rendered most of the servers unresponsive, including my already opened ssh connection. The support folk at that ISP didn’t respond to any reboot requests till about 2:30am despite claims of 24/7/365 coverage.

On the plus side I did move my ass and get some nagging things done that I’d been putting off. Also the storm appears over, or maybe I’m just in the eye.