When I moved to New York the layout of my office caused me to skip hooking my server to a UPS. Somehow I concluded that my gaming rig was more important in the scheme of things. No idea what I was thinking. Anyway last week I really got bitten by this decision as I lost power at least 15 times over the course of three days. Mostly it was for only a few minutes at a time, but twice it was long enough to cause the UPS to go down as well. All this is by way of explanation – this is why my site was down for a good piece of last week. After the third or fourth time of bringing the server back up I simply gave up and waited out the power losses. I stopped by Home Depot this weekend and got a long extension cord and now the server is on the UPS, so hopefully no more nonsense like I just went through. This also means I’m about to bombard the site with a bunch of posts I stored in my backpackit account.