Dear Gmail:
This is unacceptable.
So much for the massively scalable and redundant architecture theory.
I still have my Yahoo! Mail account….
Technorati Tags: Gmail, Google, frustration, Yahoo!
Month: April 2006
Motorola.com — OFFLINE!
Motorola made some site changes today.
The name servers they have listed at the TLD servers are:
ftpbox.mot.com. [129.188.136.101] [TTL=172800] [US]
motgate.mot.com. [129.188.136.100] [TTL=172800] [US]
The Authoritative name servers that Motorola list are:
ftpbox.mot.com. [129.188.136.9] [TTL=59719]
motgate.mot.com. [129.188.136.100] [TTL=59719]
Ummm…DNS is a vital thing. Screw it up, and YOU TAKE YOURSELF OFF THE INTERNET!
If you can get to Motorola’s site…let me know.
Bloglines: Ouch!
Can’t read your feeds?
You’re not alone.
UPDATE:
Even the plumber is confused.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Bloglines, aggregator
SF Technorati #2 offline temporarily.
I have taken the SF Technorati Agent offline temporarily, as there appears to be a routing issue with the hosting provider. When this is resolves, I will bring the agent back online.
UPDATE: This event appears to be affecting routes to hosts on the Globix Network.
Monday Morning…Zevon, Caffeine and Viruses
His comrades fought beside him, Van Owen and the rest
But of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son of a bitch Van Owen blew off Roland’s head
There is always something something soothing in the words of Warren Zevon, even when they describe the wandering ghost of a Biafran War veteran. They make the human condition, well, more human.
And the human condition is an important thing to remember on a Monday morning. With headlines shrieking of suffering, you have to sit back and wonder why; why are we still here?
I called up my friend LeRoy on the phone
I said, Buddy, I’m afraid to be alone
‘Cause I got some weird ideas in my head
About things to do in Denver when you’re dead
The virus I have in my system right now has a greater chance of surviving into the next century than the human race does. And sometimes I wonder if Zevon and Gunter Thompson always knew that, and used this knowledge to fuel a life of what we see as madness. In fact, their madness has a stronger truth than the artifical and virtual lives so many of us (including your author) lead.
It’s not melancholy that drives this rambling rant; it is a smiling realization that we are all the same, and in the end, for 99.99% of us, life is pretty darn empty in the end.
Well, I pawned my Smith Corona
And I went to meet my man
He hangs out down on Alvarado Street
By the Pioneer chicken standCarmelita hold me tighter
I think I’m sinking down
And I’m all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town
The words of a strung out junkie can ring more true in this world than the pronouncements of great people. The battles we, the 99.99% unwashed masses, face everyday are what keep societies working. Without our willingness to get up and battle every day, the great people would drown in a wave of chaos that makes today’s world seem like a tea party.
Viruses have it easy. The dead have it easy. It’s the living who stare down that dark tunnel every morning, and walk toward the deeping darkness (humans who say they see the light are more deluded than the rest of us).
Embrace viruses; embrace pain; embrace love; embrace every breath you take.
In the end, that’s what you take with you.
Left eye, right eye
Take a look around
Everybody’s heading
For a hole in the ground
And it’s the Dance of Shiva
It’s the Twilight of the Gods
Thunder and lightning
‘Til the break of dawnMonkey wash donkey rinse
Going to a party in the center of the earth
Monkey wash donkey rinse
Honey, don’t you want to go?
We are all sick, again
We are all hanging around the house, sniffling and snorting and hacking, a truly wonderful sight.
Kids and school: the true spreaders of the plague.
New Toy: Creative Zen MicroPhoto
Ok, I finally bought myself an MP3 player, a Creative Zen MicroPhoto…in orange!
I like it because:
- FM Radio
- Microphone
- Photos
- 8GB for the price of a 4GB iPod Nano
- It comes in ORANGE
Still learning the controls…but it’s great to have a new geek toy.
UPDATE: Well, the headphones that came with the Zen Micro have gotten the boot. My Sony Fontopia earbuds still kick everything else off the map…and no, I can’t afford a nice set of Shure e2c’s.
Gmail Error Message
Ya know, this is getting really tiresome…
Is it time to move back to Yahoo! Mail? Does Google care that they have performance problems?
Technorati Tags: Gmail, Google, errors, unreliable, capacity planning, web performance
Archeology on the Homefront
Samantha decided to re-design the stone path alongside our house this weekend. When she tried to position one of the stones, she encountered what she thought was a large buried rock. This would not be surprising in New England.
Being a good husband, I offered to try extracting it for her.
An hour later, we were staring at the outline of the 6′ X 3′ X 2′ deep concrete fish pond.
We knew there had been a fish pond on the property at some point, we just weren’t expecting to encounter it right there.
Needless to say, we are going to re-bury it until the boys are older; right now it is on their bike raceway, and I don’t feel like adding a water obstacle to the raceway.
Technorati Tags: fish pond, archeology, house
Looking for a new Unlocked GSM Phone
I have been shopping around for a new, unlocked GSM phone. I live in the US, so these are not as readily available as they are in the rest of the civilized world.
The criteria I have can be summed up easily:
- Candybar/brick: I have learned to hate flip phones
- Tri-Band: 900/1800/1900 (no 850 for me!) for largest range of coverage
- Keypad for easy text messaging
So far, I have narrowed the search down to three options:
- Sony Ericsson J200i
- Motorola C650
- Motorola T68i
- Motorola L6 (A boy has to dream!)
If anyone knows of any other candidates, or has domments on my shortlist, they would be appreciated.
Technorati Tags: J200i, C650, T68i, unlocked GSM, GSM, 900/1800/1900, tri-band, worldphone, world phone