A number of people had reported that there were problems with the IAM server, so for that and a couple other reasons I headed back to investigate. As far as I can tell, the slowdown is due to a bug in my image submissions tool. My base-64 routines are admittedly sloppy and very CPU and memory intensive — they have to be rewritten in assembler when I get a chance.
Anyway, when those routines run, if there have been a lot of submissions inside that 15-minute window, or if there were troubles reaching my email server during that window, sometimes there can be multiple processes running, and they can be very rude, hogging the whole CPU. Tommorrow I'll do some work on those to at least make them more polite.
I got the BME temporary tattoos (is that a bad thing? some people think so…) today — FINALLY, after many shipping-related fiascos. They're not for sale but I will give Ryan a pile of them to throw in with orders. In addition, if you are hosting a BBQ, etc., drop me a line with your address and I'd be glad to send an envelope full your way.
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