I gotta fill up that space an' I'll pack my suitcase.

Today is putting another disk into the test E250 and adding it to the metadisk the databases live on. This should have taken about thirty minutes if approached with extremely leisurely caution ^*. I expect to have it done by the end of the day. Right now I'm running the server through all manner of hardware tests because the SCSI chose to stop this foolish masquerade of being digital and instead revel in being just another analogue device pretending, with random disk errors at random blocks. We just might have a test box again tomorrow. Either that or a service call.

* oh all right, and a couple of hours to analyse the disk

Neil Gaiman with Lenny Henry, Tuesday 9th November.

apiphile asked redcountess to take notes. So, of course, she asked me to.

( Notes on the talk. )

Update: See also ruthi's notes. Neil signed our copies of Anansi Boys and Good Omens (the one that already had Terry Pratchett's signature). His eyes were way glazed by my turn in the queue.