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Down, Down, Down

Originally Posted Wednesday, 18 April 2007 at 12:00 AM
Updated Sunday, 12 October 2014 at 03:48 PM

Paraphrasing country music superstar Johnny Cash, we "fell in to a ring of fire" and "went down, down, down."

If you're interested in technical stuff, the RAID controller in our server broke and one of the hard drives went down; our Tech God has been skinning up his knuckles (Randy says "it burns, burns, burns!"), getting this expensive toy working again. Temporarily.

We're operational again -- obviously -- but our patrons were inconvenienced, our window-shoppers were inconvenienced, our Tech God was inconvenienced -- hell, we couldn't even log on to our own Web site! Oh, and some computer company's gonna be sending a bunch of replacement parts. Thank goodness for service contracts.

We apologize for the down time. We'll have another brief "bar closure" on Friday, when Randy replaces a bunch of equipment -- just pretend it's Election Day or something -- and rebuilding the RAID array will degrade our sites' performance for a few hours, but then, he tells us, everything should be lovely.

Maybe it was al-Qaida.

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."