There had been a power outage in the night, so the heat went off and the alarms did not. Not that I am complaining, since there are many people in this region who had lost power for several days as a result of storms but still, we do feel those little inconveniences.

Of a more serious nature is the spotty performance of the server on which this blog is hosted. We are a little perplexed, and have been trying to troubleshoot the issue which is basically that roughly once a day the computer either shuts down entirely or hangs.

We are trying to figure out conclusively whether there is a problem with the computer hardware, the operating system, or the software running on the system, but we have been baffled. Our short term plan is to switch the system to a different (older, slower) computer and make sure that that will stay up - thereby pointing to hardware issues on the actual server. Then the next step would be to decide whether to attempt to fix the server or whether to get a new one.

Tough decisions.