The webcam machine crashed this afternoon. 31 days, 17 hours and 31 minutes up. When this machine is finally retired, it will be replaced by one running OS X. I doubt 31 days uptime will be anything special after that, OS X just doesn’t seem to crash.

Endurance milestones have a depressing quality coupled to their achievement. Keeping track of time makes life seem shorter, acknowledging the hours and days passing forever into the past. I’m happy the machine ran for a month, taking pictures, running it’s little scripts. It’s weird to think that this marks only the second time it’s been restarted since before September 11th. Is the period between restarts the conscious time of the machine? In the same way dogs have years, was that a “computer day”?

What is left in memory when the power goes out? What are the electrical currents of the day before last? Memory leaks and power surges. The more it is copied, the farther it goes.