I don't swear very often. In fact, the only two things that can make me say rude words these days are flaky disk drives and database corruption. Oh, and anything that takes my munu off the air can generate some ripe expletives too.

At least we weren't losing $2000 a minute while the system was down - I've been there, don't want to repeat it.

On the other hand, to lose $2000 a minute you'd have to have actual revenues in the first place...

One other thing: Trackbacks and searches (the Movable Type search function) are turned off for now. I'll turn them back on in the morning (my morning - about six hours from now) when I'll be around to keep an eye on things. They were using excessive amounts of memory - hundreds of megs - which would be a problem even if the server wasn't all flaky.

I've just taken a full database backup and shipped it off to the backup server just in case.

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I am unsure how many of you have been following my progress on my trilogy project, but the first book is available for sale ... although I suspect you'll have to wait awhile before it will be delivered to your door.

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I was looking around at my blogs counter info, and I saw someone hit on my old blog, before I moved to Munuviana. Way back in 2003. Does that make me a pioneer of blogging?

Anways, it's always strange to read something you wrote a few years ago.

Take a look. It's pretty bad. But funny nonetheless.

It reminds me of when I was looking at CNET and was reading a story published back in 1996 about this new technology called DVDs, and more importantly DIVX, which was what Circuit City was trying to get as the standard.

It's amazing how technology and time flies.

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With Pixy adding the cool new "Another Mu.nu blog" logo to his front page (and I'll be soon to follow), I wanted to note this other idea I've had about the Mu.nu community and promotion.

Is it posible to get a sort of automated "Latest headlines" thing featuring all of the Munu blogs? Something like the Headline Animator provided byFeedburner. We could all put in on our frontpages and get the word out about all the other awesome blogs in our community. Anyway, it'd be nice...

P.S. Is it me or does Safari hate these helpful "URL" and "B" buttons on the post entry page?

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Pixy is obviously the Benevolent Dictator of Munuvia. Does anyone have any ideas on what his Official Title should be?

All I can come up with is "Dear Leader."

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1 Happy Birthday, to the great and powerful Oz!

Posted by: Helen at September 20, 2004 05:50 PM (wHbTB)

2 Happy Birthday, Grand Moff Pixy!

Posted by: Daniel at September 20, 2004 06:08 PM (Oc6V9)

3 Head Cow-Puppy Herder

Posted by: Ted at September 20, 2004 06:14 PM (blNMI)

4
How about "The Leader"

Na na na na na na na na...Leader!!

/obscure Simpson's reference.

Posted by: Tom at September 20, 2004 07:08 PM (kmiNS)

5 Benevolent Leader of the InnerwebnetAOL?

Happy Birthday, Oh Great One! (Youngster. Heh.)

Posted by: Margi at September 20, 2004 09:48 PM (MAdsZ)

6 Happy Birthday Emperorer Pixy!! Long Live Pixy!

Posted by: M 0.o kie at September 21, 2004 01:00 AM (ZjSa7)

7 Fisher King of the Lost Bloggers?

Happy Birthday, btw!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 21, 2004 01:21 AM (LYY6j)

8 Happy B'Day, Mr Pixy!!!!

Posted by: Madfish Willie at September 21, 2004 01:27 AM (hntZP)

9 Thanks guys!

Though I always wondered - what is a moff, anyway? And why should one moff be any grander than another?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 21, 2004 01:31 AM (+S1Ft)

10 I could tell you but not here in public. Let's just say it's been explored thoroughly in some Japanese animation and leave it at that.

Posted by: Jim at September 21, 2004 04:15 AM (GCA5m)

11 Happy birthday Pixy, hope it was a great one.

Posted by: Rachel Ann at September 21, 2004 05:05 PM (SbTAD)

12 Augustus Pixy, Lord of the Munuvians and Defender of the Blogs

Posted by: Nick Queen at September 21, 2004 06:00 PM (0gUFq)

13 I'm still firmly for "Great and Terrible Emporer Pixy"

Posted by: frinklin at September 22, 2004 09:27 PM (4k5pf)

14 Thanks a lot for sharing the article on birthday. That's a awesome article. I enjoyed the article a lot while reading. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful article. There are lots of information about on birthday that also could be awesome.

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Whoooo Hoo!!!! Somebody needs to give Tuning Spork a medal, and make up an honorable mention for Stephen and the Emperor because, thanks to their efforts

Rachel Lucas is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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1 That is cool, isn't it? Way to go Spork!!!

Posted by: Ted at May 07, 2004 03:10 AM (ZjSa7)

2 Nicely done, Spork!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 07, 2004 09:28 AM (+S1Ft)

3 All I did was ask a snarky question. ALL of the credit goes to Spork.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at May 07, 2004 10:44 PM (4819r)

4 All I did was answer a snarky question (and emailed a few bloggers asking for a few additional tributes)! It was Misha's post that Rachel noticed!
If I was Thomas Paine then the Emperor was Paul Revere and the blogosphere were the legion that gave the outpouring that let Rachel know how much we missed her! Would you believe me if I said I planned it?

Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 08, 2004 12:44 AM (KXBB0)

5 What would be really cool, as I noted she said something about having to cull her archives because she was out of space, is to get her to just move to Munu to resume her nicer and gentler blogging effort.

Of course, I might just be snorting bad cheese, too. I am a mouse. I am not suppose to have good ideas.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at May 08, 2004 04:15 AM (G5PGV)

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This is just... well... it's something. I'll leave it for you to read it.

How to date and blog (a service from Blogger)

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1 Luckily the PB found me via my blog so I don't need to worry about any of that.

Unless things with the PB don't work out, of course...but we'll cross that bridge if we come to it.

Posted by: Jennifer at February 24, 2004 12:20 AM (1iSG/)

2 s/cross/burn/

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 24, 2004 12:46 AM (jtW2s)

3 Why is the PB still a PB? Shouldn't he be either a B or an NB by now? Just askin' is all...

Posted by: Tuning Spork at February 24, 2004 05:50 AM (ut3ak)

4 Oh God...what's a PB? I can't keep up with acronyms, and I have scoured my brain for what this one could mean...

Posted by: Helen at February 24, 2004 10:16 AM (zkM9F)

5 Peanut butter.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 24, 2004 10:18 AM (jtW2s)

6 What's an NB?

Posted by: Jennifer at February 24, 2004 02:56 PM (DdBLw)

7 PB is potential boyfriend. B is obviously boyfriend and NB is Nutter Butter.

Mmmmm....Nutter Butters....

Posted by: Jim at February 24, 2004 03:03 PM (IOwam)

8 And milk...

Posted by: Jennifer at February 24, 2004 03:55 PM (DdBLw)

9 Thank you for sharing it for me great help.You can learn the information of some electronic products from newfreeshipping Smartq N7

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Mu Nu is getting a new home!

The new server is an Athlon XP 2500+ (nearly twice as fast as our existing Celeron). It has a gigabyte of memory (twice as much as the existing box), 240 gigabytes of disk (four times as much) and 500 gigabytes of bandwidth per month (five times as much).

Also, it has Fedora Linux, CPanel, and Fantastico, so lots of cool new toys for you to play with.

I should be getting the keys within 48 hours, after which it will take a week or two to get everything set up over there (depending on how busy I am with other stuff).

Company: Yay!

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1 Yay!!!

Posted by: Susie at January 12, 2004 07:07 AM (0+cMc)

2

Actually, it will probably only have 180GB of usable disk because the two 60GB drives will be mirrored. I hope... (It has two 60GB drives and a 120GB.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 12, 2004 10:11 AM (jtW2s)

3 Yay!!

Posted by: Jim at January 12, 2004 11:54 AM (IOwam)

4 Testing to see if the comments will remember me with IE...

Posted by: Susie at January 12, 2004 02:40 PM (0+cMc)

5 nope....*&#!!&^%$#@!

Posted by: Susie at January 12, 2004 02:41 PM (0+cMc)

6 still trying to get the comments to remember me....

Posted by: Susie at January 12, 2004 03:39 PM (0+cMc)

7 It's got to be a ME issue since the problem is happening on both IE and Mozilla...anybody got any ideas to how to fix it? My commenting ratio is going to plummet if I have to identify myself over again every single time...

Posted by: Susie at January 12, 2004 03:41 PM (0+cMc)

8 Still trying....

Posted by: Susie at January 12, 2004 03:58 PM (0+cMc)

9 Hmm. Are any cookies working? In Mozilla, Tools > Cookie Manager. Make sure that it's not set to block cookies. Take a look in Manage Stored Cookies and see if anything's in the cookie jar.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 12, 2004 04:02 PM (jtW2s)

10 Ok--I think I've got it fixed! Thanks! Yay!

Posted by: Susie at January 12, 2004 05:06 PM (0+cMc)

11 Got confirmation: Mirroring is go. Which is good, 'cause a failed disk on MuNu would be a bad thing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 13, 2004 02:53 AM (kOqZ6)

12 So, it wont take so long to load a Comment? WOO HOO!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at January 13, 2004 03:14 AM (Mt4uz)

13 Yep. It will give us a bit of a boost until Minx is ready.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 13, 2004 05:01 AM (kOqZ6)

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‘Munu’ is one of those special words that was present in many different languages, but meant various things in each. For instance, the Aborigine munu meant ‘one with an ego as big as Ayers rock’. Similarly, in old Saxon, munu meant ‘calf’ – literally ‘cow just born’. Old germanic languages also contained the word munu, which meant ‘lets go west and kick some butt’. This word fell from common usage when the various peoples to the west began surrendering at the first sign of trouble, taking all the fun out of it. Curiously, the only place in oriental cultures where the word munu appears is in an ancient version of today’s Vietnamese language. Apparently munu and its numerous variations were used as village and town names, as well as the names of important physical features such as rivers, mountains and lakes. In each of these cases, the word munu always meant ‘right here’.

As for the specific roots of Munuviana as we use it, some scholars have posted brilliant analysis on the subject, but a recent theory suggests that somehow the name derives from a cartoon.

Further parts will be posted as people make things up further research the archives.

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