Beginning around 7:30 this morning, both floor9.com and blogHarrisburg.com were offline due to a major power issue at the Pacific Rack datacenter in Los Angeles, where my VPS is located. This knocked out several hundred servers, including multiple web hosting companies, until around 2pm. Everything is — obviously — fully restored, and you may now safely resume your regularly-scheduled blogging.
Spammer’s Haven 2008: The Free XBOX 360
By floor9 on May 8, 2008 in Freebies | 0 Comments
Back in the summer of 2006, I decided to try my luck at one of those “FREE* MACBOOK PRO” sites you see in abundance all over this fine Internet. After about two months of carefully filling out paperwork, taking screenshots, and waiting patiently for weeks on end, I finally became the proud recipient of a brand-new Macbook Pro. And now that a half dozen of my coworkers are having nightly Halo 3 tournaments, I decided the time has come to try my luck again. That’s right; I’m going for a free XBOX 360.
T-Mobile to buy Sprint
By floor9 on May 5, 2008 in Wireless | 0 Comments
Really.
About once a quarter, a rumor of “somebody” buying either T-Mobile or Sprint makes its way around the intarwebs. And usually, it hasn’t come true. But this one actually has some bite. If you’re not interested in the logic behind this, the TL/DL is that Sprint and T-Mobile desperately need each other, and Sprint’s shareholders are murderously pissed at Sprint’s management over sustained gross incompetence. Read on for the notion.
More Card Games at Hollywood Casino
By floor9 on Apr 24, 2008 in Hollywood Casino | 1 Comment
45 more of those creepy Max-Headroom-like virtual card dealers are coming to Hollywood Casino. It’s about time. In fact, let’s abolish the card game ban altogether. What’s the logic behind banning card games again? It’ll promote gambling or something?
Read the story in PennLive here.
My Gun Control
By floor9 on Apr 24, 2008 in Central PA, Politics | 0 Comments
NOTE: In order to protect the anonymity of everyone involved here, some details of the following story have been altered. The message remains the same. This incident happened over a year ago, but I didn’t want to post it until the criminal case had made its way through its final appeal.
There’s been a lot of talk locally in recent weeks about gun control. The pro-gun people say this, the anti-gun people say that, and most people simply get lost in the crossfire. I’m willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of people in Central PA who don’t have a specific opinion on gun control simply couldn’t care any less about the subject. I’m willing to further state that most of you who don’t care probably tune most of the debate out as rhetoric. As well you should.
Hollywood Slots
By floor9 on Apr 21, 2008 in Hollywood Casino | 2 Comments
I hit my first major win the other day — $346.61 from $20. And I did it on Hee-Haw. That’s right, I’m a high-roller $.02 slot player. I love that game if for no reason other than it’s so completely random. The payouts are just great: Two rednecks, an ear of corn, and a Democrat? You’ve just won 1000 internets!
And I find it both disturbing and hilarious that “KKK” is an actual payout.
Duke’s: When All Else Fails
By floor9 on Apr 20, 2008 in Downtown | 4 Comments
Duke’s Riverside (or The Riverside G-Man, as roughly 99% of us locals still call it) has always been an integral part of living here. It’s not particularly trendy and it’s not particularly cheap. But it does have a deck, it is easy to get to, and most of the food is pretty good awesome. In fact, it’s an all-around excellent place to spend a lazy summer afternoon eating & drinking. I don’t know of anybody who actually hates going there; it’s the one place that most people can agree on most of the time. So with the first really nice weekend upon us, my party of three ventured out to the deck this afternoon for dinner, drinks, and what wound up being the worst experience I’ve ever had there.
