That kind of a morning…

It’s definitely been one of those days and it’s only 9:15 A.M. Actually most of this stuff went on before 7:00 A.M. HST. 🙂
When I woke this morning I checked my email as I usually do and noticed a Google Alert for ‘statrix’ – my domain and the name for a business I’ve had. (Statistical Tricks – Statrix). It turns out there’s a new WordPress Plugin for accumulating site statistics named, Statrix. I have to admit this didn’t overjoy me as I own statrix.com, statrix.org, go by statrixbob, etc. etc.
I wrote a letter to the young lady who wrote the plugin, a 21 year old living in Sofia, Bulgaria. I doubt anything will come of it, but I’d prefer he didn’t use that name and I certainly won’t be able to provide technical support for it. 🙂 Sofia, on the other hand, looks lovely – at least the Alexander Nevski Cathedral does.

If that were all, it really wouldn’t have that kind of day. However, when I hit ‘send’ to email the letter I got back…nothing, then nothing, then a logout.
Trying to get into my site I discovered the dread “Account Suspended” notice! What!? Was it the Bulgarians! 🙂
As it turns out, another WordPress Plugin, Postie, seems to have gone mad and eaten up all the shared CPU cycles triggering a shutdown. Sigh. It seems the host company sent the message to the shutdown email and not to my alternate contact address, so I hadn’t yet seen the notice.
In any case I opened a ticket, found out the problem, requested they let me back in to fix it, and things seem fine. Except, of course, that I can’t use Postie. It’s okay though as I never really used it anyway.
So that’s the kind of morning it’s been.
Well I guess I should mention that things went swimmingly before I got to work. 🙂 I had a lovely ride to work and probably will have to add a bit more distance to keep the time at 45 minutes. The most natural addition will be to circle Magic Island…

It’s kind of hard to tell in that shot, but the palm trees are on Magic Island, Diamond Head is well past that in the background. I took the shot before sunrise one day.
Here’s one showing a fellow fishing from Magic Island…

And the bicyclist at the top of this blog was taken there too, though I’ll admit the moon wasn’t quite that big at the time…

Finally, let you think Magic Island is all magic, here’s a rather sad commentary on how well we treat some folks around here. This is out on the edge of the island…

Aloha!