Notch posted to his blog about some upcoming updates (http://notch.tumblr.com/post/3940195633/the-state-of-minecraft) and not the least significant is TAMEABLE WOLVES!

Notice how they shake water off, and that you can make them do tricks and stuff? I'm so psyched, as an avid dog lover!

So, I sign onto the server after the downtime all day, and there's no obvious file or chunk errors so I assume all is well. I sign out and sign back in and I see...what looks like a white firework. I go investigate...and I see THIS:

It was a sheepocalypse, like 40 of them spawned! I got over 80 wool for killing them. But that shouldn't happen, I've only seen that behavior in bad chunks....I don't see any bad chunks do I????? Turns out I DO!

It's kind of hard to see, but that's a legit "killed but regenerated" chunk right near my castle. Fortunately, it's minor and almost fits the area, but it's an interesting study in errors.

Attention fellow teh3l3m3nts geeks, just wanted to let u know obsidian is back up and running. if you find any errors email minecraftpisspants@gmail.com

-nate-(IMGArY)

2011-02-17 11:09:32 [INFO] MrGoldstar1 logged in with entity id 5106068
2011-02-17 11:14:41 [INFO] <MrGoldstar1> surf what is BFG?
2011-02-17 11:14:49 [INFO] <surfrock66> butt fucking germany
2011-02-17 11:14:53 [INFO] <surfrock66> similar to bfe
2011-02-17 11:14:59 [INFO] <surfrock66> which is butt fucking egypt
2011-02-17 11:15:00 [INFO] <porjos> lol
2011-02-17 11:15:01 [INFO] <MrGoldstar1> YOU BFA
2011-02-17 11:15:17 [INFO] <surfrock66> bfe means really far away
2011-02-17 11:15:17 [INFO] MrGoldstar1 issued server command: tp mrgoldstar1 porjos
2011-02-17 11:15:17 [INFO] MrGoldstar1: Teleporting mrgoldstar1 to porjos.
2011-02-17 11:15:21 [INFO] <surfrock66> "I parked in bfe"
2011-02-17 11:15:25 [INFO] surfrock66 issued server command: kick MrGoldstar1

2011-02-23 09:56:47 [INFO] <MrGoldstar1> hey surf
2011-02-23 09:56:55 [INFO] <MrGoldstar1> is the tunnel done?
2011-02-23 09:56:59 [INFO] <surfrock66> BAHAHAHAHA
2011-02-23 09:57:00 [INFO] <surfrock66> no
2011-02-23 09:57:05 [INFO] <surfrock66> to -2500z
2011-02-23 09:57:05 [INFO] <EpicBlob> landon dont fall theirs a creeper
2011-02-23 09:57:17 [INFO] <freddiekclarke> i died!
2011-02-23 09:57:18 [INFO] <dapucksta> surf does vagina really taste like fish?
2011-02-23 09:57:27 [INFO] <MrGoldstar1> O.o
2011-02-23 09:57:31 [INFO] <dapucksta> :)