Livejournal problems
Apr. 25th, 2026 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shireboundI've barely been able to access LJ for two days. Hopefully whatever's going on (maybe just on my end) sorts itself out soon.
Is it that long?
Apr. 24th, 2026 09:13 pmmab_browneApparently it is.
I stopped Tabby Little from catching monarch butterfly #5 and held it in my hands a moment. In other wonders of nature, the dahlias were damn pretty this year. Tabby Little continues to grow more comfortable in her new(ish) environment and the latest innovation is regular purring when we stroke her.
I have had two days in a row of feeling normal and am daring to hope that the post-covid slump is ending. Perhaps I will even... write?
I hadn't realised how many old vids I had in flv, now unsupported. Thank heavens for Handbrake and its no fuss conversion to mp4. I would have been quite upset to lose some of those mainly old fandom vids, some of which are knocking on twenty years old.
We have survived, so far, the vagaries of NZ storms and cyclones without damage, although as someone who used to live in Welly some of the recent pics in the news were a bit confronting.
It's getting colder, but we have dry firewood and I can sit in my little study without clutching a hot water bottle to any portions of my anatomy.
Hopefully it won't be six weeks before I post again. :-)
I stopped Tabby Little from catching monarch butterfly #5 and held it in my hands a moment. In other wonders of nature, the dahlias were damn pretty this year. Tabby Little continues to grow more comfortable in her new(ish) environment and the latest innovation is regular purring when we stroke her.
I have had two days in a row of feeling normal and am daring to hope that the post-covid slump is ending. Perhaps I will even... write?
I hadn't realised how many old vids I had in flv, now unsupported. Thank heavens for Handbrake and its no fuss conversion to mp4. I would have been quite upset to lose some of those mainly old fandom vids, some of which are knocking on twenty years old.
We have survived, so far, the vagaries of NZ storms and cyclones without damage, although as someone who used to live in Welly some of the recent pics in the news were a bit confronting.
It's getting colder, but we have dry firewood and I can sit in my little study without clutching a hot water bottle to any portions of my anatomy.
Hopefully it won't be six weeks before I post again. :-)
Search maintenance
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dw_maintenanceHappy Wednesday!
I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!
Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!
Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.
