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Pac-Man ate my RAID

paul — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:22:04 +0000


[>....................]  recovery =  2.5% (3836544/152247936) finish=35.1min speed=70370K/sec
[>....................]  recovery =  3.0% (4642752/152247936) finish=37.5min speed=65481K/sec
[===>.................]  recovery = 15.2% (23276800/152247936) finish=32.2min speed=66725K/sec
[===>.................]  recovery = 18.4% (28154624/152247936) finish=28.9min speed=71392K/sec
[====>................]  recovery = 21.5% (32802560/152247936) finish=28.6min speed=69451K/sec
[=====>...............]  recovery = 28.3% (43166336/152247936) finish=33.4min speed=54268K/sec
[======>..............]  recovery = 33.6% (51163008/152247936) finish=25.9min speed=64964K/sec
[================>....]  recovery = 84.7% (129098432/152247936) finish=7.9min speed=48742K/sec
[===================>.]  recovery = 99.4% (151444800/152247936) finish=0.4min speed=32068K/sec

Mmmm, dots.

Cookie Monster

paul — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:27:33 +0000

New BP Logo

paul — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:06:34 +0000

America’s best defense against suitcase nukes

paul — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:55:51 +0000

Adobe doesn’t think LGBT exists

paul — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:16:42 +0000

Good help is hard to find (or: Nancy Pelosi annexes Canada)

paul — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:20:25 +0000

I wrote Nancy Pelosi, letting her know that electronic voting machines are problematic and voter-verified paper ballots are essential.

She wrote me back:

Like her colleague Diane Feinstein, she is having trouble finding competent correspondence staff.

Note the key paragraph here:

Senator Bill Nelson (D-NB) introduced the companion Senate bill, S. 1431, on July 9th, which was referred to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.

NB is New Brunswick, Canada. Last time I checked, Canada was a sovereign country. Bill Nelson is the senator from Florida.

New AirPort base station?

paul — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:34:52 +0000

The apple.com search engine seemed to have a spot of trouble with this one.

Protect Insurance Companies PSA

paul — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:31:26 +0000

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Q&A fail

paul — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:15:28 +0000

(via failblog, of course).

Donâ€™t hire Judi Newberry

paul — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:08:36 +0000

Who needs an “SEO Mavin” anyway?