Our new co-lo facility rocks my world. Boston Data Centers is the bomb. It’s located in a massive warehouse, and they sell everything from web hosting, to space in racks (your machine might sit next to somebody else’s), to “cages” (what we’ve got) where you functionally rent a room for your computers to live in. Every rack comes with enough battery backup to get through the time it will take for them to start up the two huge diesel generators out back. They have amazing bandwidth, and they’re cool people besides. We’ve even made use of their offer to walk over and power cycle a machine as needed. Sweet! Somebody who has a 24/7 staff, who is willing to reboot my machine if I wedge it really badly!
Poured out five gallons of beer yesterday. The fermentation on the “gose” style salt beer had not been vigorous at all, despite my best efforts. When I tasted it prior to moving into secondary fermentation, it was just *bad*. Not bad in a way that might improve with age, chilling, and carbonation. Bad, like, “this tastes like salted crap” bad. Out with it.
Oh, and here’s some news: Apparently the city of East Providence has known about an E. Coli contamination in the city water supply for the past month, and felt no need to tell any of us. Criminals. Criminals all of them.
Now, back to writing documentation.
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