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Unexpected Server Glitch Crashes CornerBarPR.com

Originally Posted Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 12:00 AM
Updated Sunday, 12 October 2014 at 04:25 PM

No, the revenuers haven't closed down CornerBarPR.com^®. But we were busted, just the same.

And it took a surprisingly -- infuriatingly -- long time for us to fix the problem even to the current state of things. Our site will look like a bad hangover for the next several days. Not everything will be accessible. However, once our Tech God restores access, Contacts On Tap™ should work like always.

Actually, this is only the second time since our little Corner Bar opened its doors in 2001 that our entire server cluster has failed to "serve" our patrons for more than a few hours' worth of routine updates, equipment change-outs, and suchlike.

No patron has lost Contacts On Tap lists, and, of course, our user database -- your name and address and mother's maiden name and the combination to your office safe -- was secure; it wasn't "that kind" of problem.

But we're chagrined that any patron had to experience any downtime. So here's what we've done:

All paid subscribers to Contacts On Tap will automatically receive a 10-day extension of their subscription, at no charge, to help make up for any inconvenience they -- you -- may have experienced during what is now a 75-hour outage and counting.

For the rest of you, to parrot the old joke, "Thank you for flying Lufthansa."

About The Author

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR, is well-positioned as CornerBarPR's Chief Curmudgeon; he's our version of Andy Rooney -- loves words, particularly loves to complain about idiocy.

In his spare time, Rich runs the inventively named Barger Consulting, where he conducts strategic communications planning and research, and gives people advice whether they want it or not.

Through the years, Rich has tricked unsuspecting folks into giving him positions as managing editor of the public relations division of a 180-person agency, and as a wire service editor, an economic analyst, a federal investigator, and, bless his little muddy boots, a farmer. Really. He fancies himself a pretty fair country editor and at one time was famous among about half a dozen people as "The Voice of IABC."

At various points in what passes for a career, he's done time as a member of IABC, PRSA, and NSPRA, as well as the Gifted Association of Missouri, the University of Missouri Alumni Association, the Council of Better Business Bureaus (as a Senior Arbitrator), and a handful of church choirs.

Known as "Boom-Boom Barger" in Marching Mizzou, Rich refuses to answer the phone during University of Missouri football or basketball games, plays a hard-edged game of bridge, and is married to a woman he doesn't like to talk about much, because she's smarter and much nicer than he is.

Barger's motto: "Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once."