http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/ The Technology Behind Baseball Toaster en-us Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:07:00 PST Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PST support2007@baseballtoaster.com 60 http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/946399.html Our ISP had scheduled us for another upgrade in the 7pm hour on Friday, which would have been in the middle of either or both of the Yankee-Red Sox game and/or the Dodgers-Padres game. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/946399.html Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:07:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/940575.html Our rebootless streak will come to an end early Tuesday morning after 417 days of consecutive running. Our ISP will be implementing an upgrade to the server sometime between 1am and 4am Pacific Time. The server is expected to be down no more than 15 minutes. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/940575.html Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:46:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/927256.html Simple question I haven't seen anyone asking: if the software is capable of detecting unauthorized access to the passport files of Obama, Clinton, and McCain, why doesn't it just block access? http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/927256.html Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:33:41 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/909672.html I totally shouldn't say anything, because I'm sure I'm jinxing something, but the machine that Baseball Toaster runs on has been running without a single reboot for 366 days now. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/909672.html Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:00:40 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/763380.html The server maintenance described below has been completed. Sorry for the inconvenience. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/763380.html Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:07:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/407684.html There is no Code of Conduct. In civilized conversations between mature people, codes of conduct are not necessary. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/407684.html Sun, 27 May 2007 15:00:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/611177.html I am extremely pleased to announce that Josh Wilker is bringing his wonderful Cardboard Gods blog to Baseball Toaster. It's one of my favorite blogs of any kind. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/611177.html Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:21:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/600621.html The first Baseball Toaster blog entry was posted two years ago today. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/600621.html Thu, 8 Mar 2007 00:48:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/594908.html Sorry about the slowness this morning. Our images server (which also serves up our CSS files) was being overwhelmed because ESPN.com linked to a gyroball video that Will Carroll had uploaded on The Juice. Our little web server couldn't handle serving a large file like that to that many people. I'd probably need a whole server farm to serve up video for ESPN.com. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/594908.html Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:01:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/592336.html The software that runs the Toaster is written in a scripting language called Perl. It's my favorite programming language, but I must admit, it does have its downsides. It works great, but the actual coding of it is difficult, as demonstrated here: http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/592336.html Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:59:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/591434.html Baseballtoaster.com and Toaster.TV will be down for about 10 minutes or so sometime between 12:01AM and 1:00AM on Friday, February 16. Our ISP is upgrading the operating system. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/591434.html Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/548606.html Frequently asked questions about the Toaster: http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/548606.html Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:37:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/510782.html Some of our writers have been itching to expand their brain dumps beyond baseball into popular entertainment. Hence, we present, Toaster.TV. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/510782.html Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:22:37 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/505210.html Our ISP is upgrading the operating system on our server Thursday morning. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/505210.html Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:22:00 PST http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/497116.html I've completed my site maintenance for this morning. I'll be doing some more tonight after dark. http://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/497116.html Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:50:00 PST