Now that was weird

My previous post was delayed by 48 hours due to a very weird problem in Typo that needs further investigation.

Whenever I tried to publish the post, the mongrel instance for this application would disappear in a puff of smoke leaving only the following message:

[FATAL] failed to allocate memory

That’s it. Nothing else.

By process of elimination, I figured out that it may be some stray markup in the post I was writing – I was quoting an email – but in the end all I removed was a fairly innocuous URL that wasn’t even embedded in a link.

One day I’ll sit down and figure it out, but until then normal service is resumed.