Geek On The Mountain


Geocaching.com Down


Jul 03

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I’ve been meaning to go geocaching for a while now and just today I had the chance. When I went to go to the website, however, I couldn’t get there. Sometimes this happens, so I tried a proxy. And then another. Nothing in both cases. I did some digging and found that their DNS servers weren’t even up.

After a little more digging, I found that apparently their datacenter is located in Fisher Plaza in Seattle. A fire knocked out power to the entire building which shut down several major sites, the most prominent of which is Bing Travel. There seems to be no telling when they’ll get power back. In the meantime, for geocaching.com and probably many of the other sites involved, a holiday weekend is a terrible time to go down.

Kyle Mulka’s Blog has a list of sites that are reported offline due to the fire and updates when they’re back up.

Update 7-4 10:00 – Geocaching.com is back online now, although it was a bit slow to load for me.

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Free Dr. Pepper?


Nov 24

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Here I thought that I’d missed it. The free 20oz Dr. Pepper offer (a result of their rather ridiculous marketing claim that they’d give a free one away to everyone in America if GNR’s Chinese Democracy was released in 2008) was supposed to be available yesterday and yesterday only. I had thought it was today and when Milenka told me I thought I’d missed out.

I still might, but then maybe not. Due to technical difficulties, they extended the offer to 6:00pm EST today. That’s the good news. The bad news is that apparently they’re still having difficulties. Their site is virtually (perhaps totally) unreachable. After a number of minutes of loading, the main page finally came up and it had this to say:


We are sorry for any delays you have experienced in securing a coupon for a free Dr Pepper. While we had taken additional steps to meet the expected demand for our offer, the response has been greater than anticipated. To resolve this, we are increasing our server capacity and making a toll-free number available (1-888-DRPEPPER or 1-888-377-3773). In addition, as a result of the technical delays, we are extending the offer and will provide more information shortly.

Thanks for your patience and support.

It’s great that they made a number that you can call. Unfortunately, it’s busy. And the link on the website? It’s been loading for 20 minutes now without success.

Try it for yourself though. Call that number or go to http://www.drpepper.com/freeDrPepper/. Maybe they’ll extend the deadline again.

Update: I did eventually get the coupons and they worked just fine. I only got 4 of them though. And which one was missing? The one that was for me, of course.

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Warm Halloween


Nov 01

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It was amazing nice out yesterday. It was 68 degrees at 6:00pm! I couldn’t believe it when I walked outside. I don’t think it’s gotten higher than the mid 50’s for the past couple of weeks and that’s all the warmer the forecast is for the weekend as well. I’m not sure how we manged to get one warm day but the timing was perfect. Most years on Halloween it’s cold, and costumes aren’t generally made to be warm.

We didn’t actually bring the girls around this year. I think they’ll be better suited for it next year. They did dress up though. I’m not exactly sure what they were supposed to be, but they had fancy looking dresses on. My best guess would be witches, as they did have nice pointy hats, but they didn’t really wear them much. (I’m sure that once Milenka reads this she’ll be disgusted with me as she undoubtedly knows exactly what they were… :) ) Before that though, they tried on their costumes from last year (monkey and panda) and surprisingly, they still fit, sort of. Their arms and legs are too long, but they could squeeze into them at any rate. They ended up just sitting out on the deck and handing out candy to everyone. Pagan was reluctant to part with it at first as she had eaten enough before anyone ever came around that she thought it was all hers, but after a while she got into the swing of things and had a good time giving it away.

Fox was a pumpkin, which I Know for sure, and he pretty much acted the part and just sat on his grandma’s lap through all of the action.

Another odd thing that I noticed was that it was light out. It was getting fairly dark by 7:00, but before last year time would have moved back already and it would have been dark by 6:00. Although somewhat convenient, it just doesn’t seem right to trick-or-treat while it’s light out.

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Finally A Different Look


Oct 24

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I finally got around to changing to a different theme. It needs some work that I’ll probably never do, but it’s far better than the default theme (which needed work that I knew I’d never do.)

And it only took me like six weeks to get around to making the change. How sad. I’ll post something of substance long before another six weeks pass.

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WP Default Theme??


Sep 09

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Eww… yeah, I know. It’s ugly. Or at least, its plain. I was just doing some upgrading to my WP and my old theme seems have become broken in the process. I don’t have time to play with it at all just now, so I’ll have to look into more later. In the mean time, it is at least functional.

And yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I haven’t posted in a year and a half or so. Milenka keeps on bugging me to do it and I always mean to….. so now I’m getting around to it. Sort of. I figured I’d update everything before I got too much into it.

Things will look prettier shortly.

Oh, and if you happen to actually read this in the next week or so, please leave a comment to let me know you’re around. I have no idea if anyone even checks here anymore, and I’m rather curious.

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