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  • Canada’s Shame: Water, Water Everywhere, Except for the First Peoples

    Keeping tabs on the news from home, it appears that our nation has condemned many communities of the First Peoples to communities with water not fit for any living thing. [here and here]
    Canada is consistently rated one of the best countries in the world to live in. But how can this tragedy be allowed to continue? How can a developed nation, holding huge reserves of the world’s water supply, poison it’s own First Peoples with the basis of life?
    Canada likes to see itself as morally superior to the United States. But allowing the systemic racism embedded in the culture of leadership to doom a generation of the most valuable (and undervalued) people in our country to disease and poverty is a shame that needs to be exposed.
    The cover needs to be taken off this pot; and like Katrina, the boiling mess underneath will show the true face of the nation.

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  • Scripting News: Where for art thou Dave?

    Dave Winer’s blog — ok, one of Dave Winer’s blogs — is currently throwing 500 Internal Server Error errors.


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    UPDATE: He’s back!


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  • Scoble should be careful what he links to

    Einstein Image Generator
    Via: Scoble

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  • IceRocket doesn’t like GrabPERF

    Guess Blake and the team at IceRocket don’t want to be measured anymore.

    Guess I will disable those measurements — they will remain off until further notice.

    Blake got back to me — issue fixed! Yay!

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  • PubSub: Anyone have issues getting to PubSub Today?

    Just noticed this.


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    Anyone have troubles getting PubSub sites today?

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  • Want to buy North America’s Oldest Company?

    This makes me sad.
    A South Caroline businessman is making an attempt to purchase the Hudson’s Bay Company. [here]
    The company, lovingly referred to as the Bay, was incorporated in 1670 and once owned more real estate in North America, in fact “all the land in the Hudson Bay watershed – a mass that amounts to about a third of present-day Canada.” [here]
    The HBC is the early history of Canada. Without their greed and ingenuity, Canada would never have grown beyond the Valley of the St. Lawrence.
    Perhaps this is the revenge for War of 1812.

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  • GrabPERF: End of Daylight Savings Time in the US

    At 2AM EDT Oct 30, 2005, it will become 1AM EST Oct 30, 2005. This shift will take us from GMT -4 to GMT -5.
    As always, hang onto your hats, as I have no idea how the time change will affect the graphing in GrabPERF. My theory is that there should be double measurements for the 1 AM hour, and the hourly rollup will fail, as there will already be an entry for the time period.
    I could write an exception for this twice yearly foobar, but let’s just say this update is scraping the bottom of the GrabPERF punch-list.
    At least I don’t have this problem.

  • Feedster: Odd errors from the local GrabPERF Agent

    I have been getting Partial File errors out of cURL on the Agent that is running on my home network. These started at around 16:15 EDT October, 28, 2005. This is why the availability for this measurement is running at around 50%.
    Now, did the folks at Feedster make a networking/server change around that time?

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  • Snowing, but not sticking…yet.

    Need I say anything more?
    Thus it began.

  • Jeff Nolan and TypePad

    Jeff Nolan adds his voice to the TypePad rumblings. [here]
    Take away quote:

    Some very experienced IT professionals are chiming in that they understand how difficult it is to run a datacenter (something I myself have not done I would add) and I am sure the empathy is well meaning. However, there are ample examples of large datacenter operations that operate with a very high degree of uptime and performance so while running a high capacity and complex datacenter may be difficult, it is being done successfully elseware.
    Mena and Ben (further putting the human face on the company, a good PR tactic) may be plenty sorry, but I’m still stuck paying for shitty Typepad performance. In fact, I’d like to see this subscription software model go even further to align with customers by putting a service level agreement (SLA) in place that lays out a series of financial penalties the provider incurs when performance and availability fall below predefined thresholds. I bet they would not have to be sorry then, because companies that have these kinds of service level agreements are always highly motivated to get it right the first time.