If you’re a user of Twitter, you may wish to follow rmfoinfo on Twitter. Thanks to Alex King’s awesome Twitter Tools, you’ll get up-to-the-second notice that something’s wrong on the server. [We post so rarely that Google Reader, Newsgator, etc. aren't going to notify you for hours after an outage because they don't scrape us very often.]
Also, several of you have, through no fault of your own, gotten caught by our firewall. I found out one reason why: Shaun Inman’s Mint, which we use extensively around the RMFO network, sometimes does things that the Apache module mod_security doesn’t like. Given that CSF/LFD monitors mod_security, you get firewalled for no good reason. But knowing that this is a way to fix it, I’ve been rolling out the fix.
Now, I gotta get back to doing WordPress upgrades …