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Interesting things to note:

First off, let's link to an ego-boosting post. Muhahahahahaah.

Update: Seems my day was a LOT better than this one.

• It seems I cannot escape the curse of SAT teaching. I will be starting to tutor four local kids for three hours every weekend. I'm looking forward to ... time to push MY idea of "education" on some unwitting kids... HAHA... time for them to start reading the Economist!
• The static data servers were down for most of today. It was a pain to bring them up. I get very scared when that server crashes because I cannot afford to backup the data there (I can't afford to pay for another 80GB HD just simply to mirror data)... if the "crash" turns out to be "hard drive implosion," I'm just going to be very very sad for everybody. However, I have decided I will build in a stopgap automated backup service for paid members (rolled out this weekend hopefully). Free users ... if the hard drive fails... SORRY! Har har.
• Some friends and I decided to try out an "investment opportunity" and basically ended up with 500 DVDs in my room. I did not know 500 DVDs weighed 115 pounds (~60 kg for you metric people). I had great fun checking out some of the DVDs in there ... I did not know so many horrible DVDs were created.
• My online poker ban is working well.
• I whipped up a pretty slick new design for my client. I really need to finish up LB7 tomorrow
• I added a query caching mechanism for Tabulas. As it was, any requests sent to your personal data server while the server was down was simply lost. Now (in theory) it checks to see if the request was executed on the remote server; if not, it's stored on the DB server and executed at a later time.
• I suck at tennis.
• I've been rewriting the XML API for Tabulas (basically how Tabulas' control panel communicates with the remote XML server to generate RSS files and such). I think I got a lot stupider over the past few months because I'm having trouble getting the system down. I have no clue how I did it so well the first time. Oh well, reinventing the wheel is always a bitch.
• Update: I finally rewrote the XML internet API for Tabulas! Now my RSS feeds should update whenever I use the new CP automatically (instead of aggregating them every few weeks...!
• Finally got around to installing NTP to automatically sync time across my servers; it was getting real annoying to see weird times on the home.tabulas.com

A produtive evening in all.