Bryant returns to Colo. court for hearing

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Bryant Returns to Colo. Court for
Hearing (AP)

Bryant Returns to Colo. Court for
Hearing (AP) 04/26/2004 10:28 AM
AP - With his team in the middle of the NBA playoffs, Kobe Bryant returned to a Colorado courtroom Monday for a three-day hearing that could pave the way for a trial date in his sexual assault case.

Colo. Prosecutors Still Plan Bryant
Trial (AP)

Colo. Prosecutors Still Plan Bryant
Trial (AP) 07/26/2004 02:21 PM
AP - Prosecutors said Monday they still plan to take NBA star Kobe Bryant to trial on a sexual assault charge, despite a judge's decision that could make it harder to win a conviction.

Bryant Lawyers Raise Race Issue in Court
(AP)

Bryant Lawyers Raise Race Issue in Court
(AP) 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
AP - Kobe Bryant's attorneys suggested Friday that the Los Angeles Lakers star may have been falsely accused of rape because he is black.

Kobe Bryant to enter formal plea in
court

Kobe Bryant to enter formal plea in
court 05/10/2004 04:30 PM

Court favours IBM in SCO hearing

Court favours IBM in SCO hearing 12/08/2003 06:57 AM
Computer Weekly Dec 8 2003 6:14AM ET

Falconio court hearing under way

Falconio court hearing under way 05/17/2004 01:30 AM
A key court hearing begins in Australia over the death of British tourist Peter Falconio.

Jackson Won't Attend Next Court Hearing
(AP)

Jackson Won't Attend Next Court Hearing
(AP) 02/11/2004 04:25 PM
AP - Don't expect any dancing at Michael Jackson's next court date. The self-styled King of Pop is staying home.

Rudolph Due in Court for Bombings
Hearing (AP)

Rudolph Due in Court for Bombings
Hearing (AP) 04/13/2005 04:10 AM
AP - Eric Rudolph plans to explain how and why he committed a string of deadly bombings starting with a blast at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 — but not just yet, his attorney said.

EU court sets Microsoft hearing

EU court sets Microsoft hearing 07/28/2004 12:47 PM
Microsoft Corp will face off against the European Commission on Sept 30 in a European Union court in Luxembourg, seeking a suspension of sanctions against it for several years, the court announced on Tuesday.

Court rules for IBM in preliminary SCO
hearing

Court rules for IBM in preliminary SCO
hearing 12/08/2003 06:06 PM
IBM had wanted the court to compel SCO to provide details about the intellectual property violations it alleges IBM committed by contributing Unix code to the Linux operating system.

Altran summoned to court hearing

Altran summoned to court hearing 03/30/2005 07:22 AM
Computer Business Review Mar 30 2005 10:29AM GMT

Court Hearing for Saddam Begins in
Baghdad--US Army (Reuters)

Court Hearing for Saddam Begins in
Baghdad--US Army (Reuters) 07/01/2004 05:27 AM
Reuters - Saddam Hussein appeared in court in Baghdad on Thursday, a U.S. military official told Reuters.

Supreme Court Justices Grill Both Sides
at Copyright Hearing

Supreme Court Justices Grill Both Sides
at Copyright Hearing 03/31/2005 12:15 AM
Electronic Frontier Foundations Mar 31 2005 4:09AM GMT

Georgia Shooting Suspect Returns to
Court (AP)

Georgia Shooting Suspect Returns to
Court (AP) 04/15/2005 12:40 PM
AP - Amid heightened security, Brian Nichols returned on Friday to the Fulton County courthouse, where he is accused of shooting a judge and two other people last month. Nichols was shackled at the ankles but not the wrists as he appeared at the courthouse for a hearing, the first time since he had been there since the March 11 slayings.

Accused Atlanta Shooter Returns to Court
(Reuters)

Accused Atlanta Shooter Returns to Court
(Reuters) 04/15/2005 03:41 PM
Reuters - Lawyers for Brian Nichols, who is accused of killing a judge and three others in a shooting rampage at an Atlanta courthouse, argued on Friday that they should be allowed to question members of a grand jury to guard against bias in the highly publicized case.

Security Tight as Jackson Returns to
Court (Reuters)

Security Tight as Jackson Returns to
Court (Reuters) 04/30/2004 06:22 AM
Reuters - Michael Jackson, declaring his life is at stake, returns to court on Friday armed with a new lawyer to defend him on charges of molesting a young boy.

Ailing Chief Justice Rehnquist Returns
to the Court (Reuters)

Ailing Chief Justice Rehnquist Returns
to the Court (Reuters) 01/05/2005 06:51 PM
Reuters - Ailing U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who has been undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, has returned to work part-time at the Supreme Court, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

South Korea's Roh Returns Stronger After
Court Rules (Reuters)

South Korea's Roh Returns Stronger After
Court Rules (Reuters) 05/13/2004 10:53 PM
Reuters - South Korea's Constitutional Court overturned parliament's unprecedented vote to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun, clearing the way for him to return to work on Friday strengthened after two months in political limbo.

Music Industry Returns to Court,
Altering Tactics on File Sharing

Music Industry Returns to Court,
Altering Tactics on File Sharing 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
The music industry returned to the courthouse Wednesday to sue 532 people it accuses of large-scale copyright infringement.

Three Killed in Colo. Bridge Accident
(AP)

Three Killed in Colo. Bridge Accident
(AP) 05/15/2004 02:37 PM
AP - A huge steel girder dropped from a freeway overpass construction site into morning traffic on Saturday, crushing one car and killing three people west of Denver.

Technorati colo move this weekend

Technorati colo move this weekend 12/19/2004 03:16 PM
As we've announced on the main site, Technorati is moving servers this weekend! We're moving from our old colo to a Tier 1 facility with overprovisioned electricity, HVAC, good security, fire control, and all the trimmings. You can watch...

Colo. Redistricting Map Challenge
Rejected

Colo. Redistricting Map Challenge
Rejected 01/23/2004 07:36 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 23 2004 11:40PM GMT

Girder Drops From Colo. Bridge, Killing
3 (AP)

Girder Drops From Colo. Bridge, Killing
3 (AP) 05/15/2004 09:47 PM
AP - A 40-ton steel girder dropped from a freeway overpass construction site into morning traffic on Saturday, crushing one car and killing all three people inside.

Technorati is back up, colo move
complete!

Technorati is back up, colo move
complete! 12/22/2004 01:12 AM
I'm totally pleased to announce that the Technorati colo move is now complete! We got the job done in 33 hours, which means that we got the entire move done in under 2/3 the time we thought it would...

Traffic Hits Colo. House Twice in 32
Days (AP)

Traffic Hits Colo. House Twice in 32
Days (AP) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
AP - In just over a month, Sarah Stern's life of solitude was shattered twice — when separate vehicles slammed into her corner house.

Colo. Blizzard Strands Drivers,
Travelers (AP)

Colo. Blizzard Strands Drivers,
Travelers (AP) 04/10/2005 09:37 PM
AP - Hundreds of travelers were stranded at the Denver airport and along highways Sunday as a blizzard blew across eastern Colorado with wet, heavy snow.

Man in Colo. Bulldozer Rampage Found
Dead (AP)

Man in Colo. Bulldozer Rampage Found
Dead (AP) 06/05/2004 10:50 PM
AP - Crews using a crane Saturday removed the body of local man who tore up a good part of this mountain resort town with an improvised tank.

Inmates Riot, Set Fires at Colo. Prison
(AP)

Inmates Riot, Set Fires at Colo. Prison
(AP) 07/21/2004 09:38 AM
AP - Inmates rioted and set fires at a privately run prison, destroying one living unit and extensively damaging four others, officials said Wednesday. Several inmates were injured.

Colo. Cracks Down on Left-Lane Dawdling
(AP)

Colo. Cracks Down on Left-Lane Dawdling
(AP) 04/04/2005 10:17 AM
AP - Colorado is serious about its no-dawdling law in left lanes. Drivers who insist on staying in the passing lane are risking tickets as the State Patrol has begun enforcing a law requiring motorists to use the left lane for passing only.

Colo. GOP's Statement on Kerry Draws
Fire (AP)

Colo. GOP's Statement on Kerry Draws
Fire (AP) 04/24/2004 05:11 PM
AP - Democrats are furious about a statement by Republicans saying that comparing one of their candidates to presidential candidate John Kerry would be worse than comparing someone to the Ku Klux Klan.

Colo. initiative could make 2004 a
repeat of 2000 (USATODAY.com)

Colo. initiative could make 2004 a
repeat of 2000 (USATODAY.com) 09/27/2004 07:25 AM
USATODAY.com - If you enjoyed the 2000 election spectacle in Florida, stay tuned to Colorado in 2004. A razor-thin national margin for either President Bush or Sen. John Kerry on Nov. 2 could spark another court showdown because of a statewide initiative here that would rewrite the rules for apportioning Colorado's nine electoral votes.

Colo. schools give high score to 4-day
weeks (USATODAY.com)

Colo. schools give high score to 4-day
weeks (USATODAY.com) 06/14/2004 06:55 AM
USATODAY.com - Aimee Kroneberger's three daughters didn't go to school on Fridays this year. And they don't have to make them up in summer school.

Putting out colo fires (literally!), aka
“A weekend of downtime”,
grrr.

Putting out colo fires (literally!), aka
“A weekend of downtime”,
grrr. 09/26/2004 05:04 PM

Ugh. What a horrible weekend. I and the team have been spending the entire weekend dealing with massive data corruption caused - of all things - by an electrical fire on the main electrical line coming into our colo here in San Francisco.

The colo fire has led to a cascade of failures that has caused the Technorati service to be down for most of the weekend. It's also giving me a lot more respect for people who build and maintain 100% uptime of services, the trials and tribulations they go through, and also the cost of being operationally excellent.

What Happened

At about 9:30PM PST Friday, there was an electrical fire on the power main inside our colocation center, where our entire server infrastructure is housed. This caused our battery backup power supplies to kick in, but the independent power generator at the colo never kicked in - possibly because the problem was a fire inside the building rather than a general power blackout of the neighborhood. Well, the fire was only problem #1. We weren't expecting or planning for an outage of that kind. It caused a cascade of other problems that made the rest of the weekend a huge PITA. Problem #2 was that we didn't have a good enough emergency plan in place that would shut our systems down cleanly when power ran out like that. Unfortunately, that meant that when the batteries died, our server farm went down quite ungracefully - causing problem #3, which was data corruption due to the unclean shutdown.

The rest of the weekend has been spent recovering from these failures - we've had to do consistency checks and then rebuilds of the data sets that got corrupted, and we're doing that for over a hundred machines. Bad bad bad. At least we've been performing regular daily backups, and we're able to use that as starting points on our road to recovery. The current ETA to get services back up and running is by Monday morning, which will mean a weekend of unplanned downtime.

What we're doing about it

Clearly, this is unacceptable, but the damage is already done, so the big question on my mind is how to learn from this outage and make sure that it never happens again. One of the important things learned is that there's a reason why some colocation centers are called “Tier 1” (and priced that way) and others are not. Tier 1 means that everything is overprovisioned, and there's plenty of infrastructure backup already built into the place - electrical, network, fire suppression, environmental, security, etc. We have been planning a move to a new colocation center, but this most recent incident just underscores the need to move asap. Second, it illustrates a hole we had in our emergency plan - we had built our emergency plan based on a threat level of a short outage followed by a quick electrical recovery. We had planned for a shutdown of critical systems if battery power fell below a certain threshold (upsd for you techies out there), but we hadn't gotten it implemented given that we were planning the move to the new colo. That of course, led to the data corruption that is keeping the team up all weekend.

Once we get past this crisis and get the service back up and running again, I guarantee that we'll be doing a post-mortem analysis to see where the failure points were, and how we can avoid them in the future. I have learned a lot from this experience about the value (and implicit cost) of planning and building systems around unreliable components, and doing everything you can to eliminate risk - and also about planning for quick recovery when the unthinkable happens. I have a lot of respect for the folks at Google, Yahoo, eBay, and the like for their ability to build and maintain a solid world-class infrastructure, have it scale, and also innovate with new applications as well.

Planning for Murphy's Law

Count me as one of the humbled. To our users and customers: Ouch this hurts, and we're working on making sure that outages like this never happen again. To the folks down in ops and engineering at companies around the globe keeping these systems running and useful, no matter what Murphy throws at you, you've got my appreciation.

I'll post as we have more updates on service status as the day progresses.

Bryant to Stay With Lakers

Bryant to Stay With Lakers 07/15/2004 06:49 PM
Kobe Bryant's journey through free agency ended today where it began — with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Bryant to be arraigned May 10 in sex
case

Bryant to be arraigned May 10 in sex
case 04/28/2004 08:10 PM

Bryant Prosecutors Can't Bar Testimony
(AP)

Bryant Prosecutors Can't Bar Testimony
(AP) 08/16/2004 12:10 PM
AP - In another setback to the prosecution in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case, the Colorado Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal of a key ruling that allows the NBA star's attorneys to tell jurors about the accuser's sex life.

Bryant Attorneys Want Charge Dismissed
(AP)

Bryant Attorneys Want Charge Dismissed
(AP) 09/01/2004 01:54 PM
AP - Attorneys for NBA star Kobe Bryant asked the judge to dismiss the sexual assault charge against him, saying prosecutors have refused to turn over details that could suggest he is innocent.

Kobe Bryant Re-Signs With L.A. Lakers
(AP)

Kobe Bryant Re-Signs With L.A. Lakers
(AP) 07/15/2004 08:21 PM
AP - Kobe is staying with the Los Angeles Lakers and K-Mart is heading to the Denver Nuggets.

Bryant Decides to Re-Sign With Lakers
(AP)

Bryant Decides to Re-Sign With Lakers
(AP) 07/15/2004 03:23 PM
AP - Kobe Bryant's journey through free agency ended Thursday where it began — with the Los Angeles Lakers.
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