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A rocking 2004 desktop setup with both a Trinitron and a Diamondtron monitor
A rocking 2004 desktop setup with both a Trinitron and a Diamondtron monitor

The Core Dump

The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.

    By Nic Lindh on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 in tech · 1 min read

    Oy, vey

    If you’ve visited the site during the last day or so, you either got some kind of error or timeout, or saw this:

    Oh, The Humanity

    Things were not so super great for a while, there.

    But the site is up again, and running the latest version of Ruby on Rails and the latest Subversion trunk of Typo.

    Behind the scenes, a huge morality play about being a little too far out on the bleeding edge which I’m too wiped to relay right now.

    Suffice it to say that whenever you’re really tired in front of the computer and the little voice in your head starts saying things like, “Mohaha. Teh leetness,” you should go to bed. Immediately. Just put the mouse down and go to bed.

    You have thoughts? Comments? Salutations? Send me an email!

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