By Dave Winer on Thursday, September 02, 2010 at 11:10 AM.
We lost two-plus hours this morning as I scrambled to rebuild the scripting.com server.
A mysterious outage. I tried to reboot the server over and over, and it wouldn't come back. So I created another instance, but kept making mistakes with AWS. Then after fretting and thinking of a million other ways to do it, I sat down with pen and paper and wrote down, step by step, what I thought would work. Then I did it. It worked.
Moral of the story, there are no shortcuts possible. You must pay the piper. And as Jerry once sang, so wisely:
I know the rent is in arrears.
The dog has not been fed in years.
It's even worse than it appears!
See, Jerry was a musician, but he understood programming.
