Procrustean
Producing conformity using harsh means.
After Procrustes, a giant in Greek mythology, who stretched or cut his victims to make them fit his bed.
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We are coding like madmen in an attempt to hammer out speed related problems with the new database system, and speeding up every database query we make. There is now a second DB server up with the new DB system. It seems to be doing very well.
LiveJournal is currently being slow. I see lots, and lots of people hitting the reload button far more than they should. This does not help, as I am sorry to say. If the site will not load for you, please only try once every fifteen minutes.
Here is a pretty graph of our current goals.
Have you been a good little boy or girl this year?
Something to say about what made you so?
Gimli Gloin's son If I were a character in The Lord of the Rings, I would be Gimli, Dwarf, handy with an axe when orcs are about. In the movie, I am played by John Rhys-Davies. Who would you be? |