Power Outage

The facility where I keep my webserver (I have the good fortune to run my own hardware rather than being stuck in some virtual machine) had a brief power failure. This should not have been a problem except that my UPS seems to have a bad battery and couldn't keep my server running for the duration. As if that wasn't bad enough, it didn't power my system back up when the power was restored. So I ended up taking a trip to visit my server and get it on its feet again. I still have it plugged into the old UPS which I guess is now acting as a bulky surge protector. While I was here, I took the liberty of upgrading my year old kernel to 2.6.11.9. That last number is a new one for me. The next day, 2.6.11.10 came out. I don't plan on chasing every little patch release.