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**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

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For some reason, I couldn't shake the mental image of Meltem and Korhan (hosts for Istanbul 04) when doing my "Eurovision Quiz" over the weekend. Korhan's "surprised" response of "Ire-land!" on being told that they'd won more ESCs than anyone else is a bit of a catchphrase around my way.

Anyway, the answers to the lyrics quiz:
1. "The archipelagic icicles have melted like the cage"
Dervish - "They Can't Stop The Spring" - Ireland 2007

2. "'Aja ja ja ja' complained the song thrush, 'the song thrush's feet are freezing'"
Aistė - "Strazdas" - Lithuania 1999

3. "My radar is in panic. Fatal beauty admit it's weird"
Plastic Bertrand - "Amour Amour" - Luxembourg 1987

4. "Yes, that's what happens to someone who grows masculine too quickly"
Brita Borg - "Augustin" - Sweden 1959

5. "I wanted to find your footprints under your feet"
Antonio Carbonell - "¡Ay, qué deseo!" - Spain 1996

6. "The pillow smells nice but your infidelity is hurting me"
Tony Cetinski - "Nek' ti bude ljubav sva" - Croatia 1994

7. "Even the most expensive car can't swim and when it's wet it has trouble braking. That's why something is done to the asphalt - so that no drop of water remains on it"
Ruth Jacott - "Vrede" - Netherlands 1993

8. "Send for some vodka ho ho ho ho because we are Mongolians"
Dschinghis Khan - "Dschinghis Khan" - Germany 1979

9. "Susanne went home yesterday, home to her mother in Klampenborg, all that TV has made her raving mad. She says I'm not all normal"
Brixx - "Video Video" - Denmark 1982

10. "There is only one thing that does help. Someone must grease it once in a while"
Lys Assia - "Das alte Karussell" - Switzerland (listed as Germany in my program, weirdly) 1956

I've just been to see "Eurobeat", a sort of Eurovision parody, and can't recommend it highly enough if anyone here has the chance to see it. Particularly when you're a bit starved for the real thing, this is quite a good substitute.

Anyway, the programme contains a brief quiz. Here are 10 lyrics from Eurovision entries, and your job is to name the performer, country, year and title. The lyrics are present in their English translations if they were performed in a different language. No googling or use of Diggiloo and related sites:

1. The archipelagic icicles have melted like the cage
2. "Aja ja ja ja" complained the song thrush, "the song thrush's feet are freezing"
3. My radar is in panic. Fatal beauty admit it's weird
4. Yes, that's what happens to someone who grows masculine too quickly
5. I wanted to find your footprints under your feet
6. The pillow smells nice but your infidelity is hurting me
7. Even the most expensive car can't swim and when it's wet it has trouble breaking. That's why something is done to the asphalt - so that no drop of water remains on it
8. Send for some vodka ho ho ho ho because we are Mongolians
9. Susanne went home yesterday, to her mother in Klampenborg, all that TV has made her raving mad. She says I'm not all normal
10. There is only one thing that does help. Someone must grease it once in a while

Answers on Monday evening Australian time, unless people want longer.

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,