The Time Sink

To Daynotes Gang:

Please excuse Dan Bowman from his journal update duties for a period up to one week. He is suffering from influenza and is medically unable to discharge his normal updating tasks for that time period. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely yours;

James T. Crider MD

Thanks Jim. I needed that. I am going to try to return to work today as the fever finally broke early Wednesday morning. I'm left with the residuals of junky sinuses and lungs. ...and a son who said, "Just stay home another day to get better like I did." When I explained that days off counted against our vacation time on the California coast in the summer (can you say "time bank"?), his reply was, "So what, Dad; that's just play time, get better now." Wow...

...and sometimes even when things go wrong, they can go right: As I was catching up on the goings on of the Gang, I saw that Tuesday Brian had a link to ThinkGeek's caffeine collection. Thinking this would be way cool (hey, no temp for a day!), I went looking. ..right into a very cool error page (excerpted without permission):

Error 500: Doh! Our server died on that one.

If you are an end user and are receiving this message, you are either attempting to access one of our scripts in a non-standard way or we suck as programmers. If it's the latter, please let us know. If you are a local sysadmin/programmer, and have read this far without fixing the problem...you are fired ;)

I'm so glad that I pulled a "view source" on it, 'cause sure enough, when I tried again, I served up the correct page.