Pulling an All Nighter…

August 11, 2004 D. H. McKee

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Stayed up all night working on a customer’s machines. There was a Squid problem and their cache folders got corrupted, so I upgraded them to Squid 2.5STABLE-12 after wiping out their cache paritions. It was a clever little trick: I diverted all our application’s traffic to one of their good servers, while rebuilding the Squid caches on two other servers. No one went offline, and no important data was lost, except some pornography. I enabled the cache_access log on the good machine, so I could make sure traffic was being diverted, but ended up looking at porn URLs for about 6 hours. The problem was newfs took forever to finish up on the two bad machines — I’m suspecting some kind of physical drive damage, but everything appears to be working now.
I couldn’t stay awake at work, and often got halfway through an email message and forgot what I was typing. Worse yet, I’d look back over the stuff I had written, and was no better off. Very little of the email would be sensible. I’m beginning to think I could be a surrealist writer, or perhaps someone who writes up those crazy nonsensical spam emails that clog up everyone’s inbox. So I came home around noon, and slept for the next six hours.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.