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It seems that Pluto shan’t go down without a fight after all. I was notfied of an article in which Alan Stern, head of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, blasted the decision to demote Pluto to “dwarf planet” status. I was also emailed by a group of people who have started similar petitions to mine, and we have decided to pool our efforts on a separate website, PleaseSavePluto.org. I’m going to export the current signatures on my petition to that site, so feel free to check it out and witness the resistance.
We got your back, Pluto…

Like many individuals around the world, I was horrified to discover that Pluto has been demoted from planet status. This arbitrary decision prompted me to create a petition, which I encourage you to sign immediately. If Pluto can so easily be discarded, how much longer before some governing body decides that Earth is no longer a planet? Then what? I ask. Then what?

UPDATE: Please see my second Pluto post for information about the online coordinated effort to “save Pluto” and the proper website you should be visiting to make your voice heard.

Spurred to action by my web host’s recent spate of problems, I have attempted several measures recently to speed up my website. Upgrading from PHP 4.4 to PHP 5.1 and adding FastCGI support seems to have helped. (I am running PHP as CGI instead of an Apache module to facilitate one-click web-based installs of WordPress and the like.) I also made sure my third party software is up to date. I do appreciate Dreamhost’s honesty about and detailed explanation of the hellish debacle they faced during July, but I expect it not to happen again. Methinks a discount on next year’s hosting might be an appropriate conciliatory measure towards their customers as well.