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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

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What Farm Animal Are You? - What animal would you be on the farm?

YAY!! I did it. I changed our name!

It's now called olympicscentral! It's easy and fun and we can definitely use this for future Olympics! I'm so excited and i'm ready for our discussions!

I also changed up the layout. I think it worked well last time and the other one wasn't doing it for me anymore. In the meantime, I added a pic of Vancouver, but this layout does give us the option like we had last time with the changing of the pics after certain events. I can't wait!!

If you find a great picture between now and the opening games, feel free to share it. We can always change the picture!!

Also, within the next week or so, i'm also going to start fixing up the tags. I'm sure they will be a lot easier to read and organized. :)

So, if you want to spread the word, go ahead and let your friends know. With 97 days to go..i'm sure we'll start getting more and more information! :)

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