Volity.net is down

Volity.Net is down for unknown reasons. Our service provider has been made aware of the problem, and I hope that they're fixing it.

V for Vendetta

I saw this movie with dictator555 and classicaljunkie. I liked it, and indeed enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It gets a general recommend from me.

Now I will complain! ( Wheee! )

My least favorite scene was some knifework at the end that could have been kung-fu clever, but was instead made merely gratuitous by being shot on high-speed film and decorated by colorful animated blood-sprays at every slashed neck and wrist, of which there are many. For me, it managed to evoke both the zero-g assassination scene from Star Trek VI as well as Monty Python's Flying Circus ("And the blood comes out, psssssss! Slow motion!")

And as with The Matrix, I actually rather despise these nastily dance-party scenes of police getting killed in whoah-cool ways. It's not like they're orcs or even villainous men... they're just some poor sods taking their pay from the wrong side. If you've got to kill them to further your intriguing Machiavellian plot, Mr. anti-hero, fine, but don't get all snuff-fetishy about it plz.

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Volity.net is still down. After two days of our computer going down for reasons our hosting provider isn't sure about, followed by a series of technicians not having any idea what to do about it, I asked them to wipe the machine so we can restore from backup. I was told that they could have that done by tomorrow morning, after they do some other stuff for some other people.

daerr sez I was in my rights to demand it now, since two days of non-service was just unacceptable. I felt bad about not being mean enough. The problem with me is that whenever anyone throws me a bone, no matter how paltry, my instinct is to slink away quickly in a position of subservient gratitude.

Tomorrow morning I'll call and bother some more people. Until then our everything-server is still down. I feel about as productive as I did at Harvard. Fooey.

We'll probably switch providers after we're back online... we had some stupid billing problems earlier this month, and setup problems last month.