Posted on Tuesday, 15th July 2008 by admin
You’ve seen it here before, and it has come around for another pass. My gmail is down with a “Temporary Error 502. I had noticed an up-tick in the search traffic on the subject lately, but was hoping not to get bitten (again).
Round 1
Round 2
Surviving gMail Temporary Error 502 outages
Update: Weird. That literally lasted four [...]
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Posted on Monday, 30th June 2008 by admin
I can only assume that religious bigotry and prejudice is driving their activity, as there is no altruistic value in posting our copyrighted scriptures, despite Wikileaks’ self-serving statements to the contrary. -[Source] Emphasis is mine
Copyrighting your scriptures as a means to suppress speaks volumes about an organization, especially a religious one. Poor Guttenberg would have [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 10th June 2008 by admin
In what is generally a first, my post on surviving gmail outages has been linked to from another site (that isn’t spammy). The host of Beth’s Blog, a site about non-profits and social media, was experiencing a gmail outage too and it completely ruined her productivity. Someone should start a gMail addicts group, this [...]
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Posted on Monday, 9th June 2008 by admin
In my post on 4 June, What’s new is old again, I mentioned that AMC was going to be showing “Stand by me” and I wondered out loud if the trivia teasers were true. Wil posted today his recollections of the Stand by me set.
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Posted on Monday, 9th June 2008 by admin
I use mint to see live stats for the traffic to skfox.com and Google Analytics for the long term statistics. I’ve seen a resurgence today of traffic to my two blog posts (in March and again in May) about my gMail account being down. The most common for me is a “Temporary Error (502)” and [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 5th June 2008 by admin
This was the scene today at the Oregon State Capitol building.
Someone needs to remind the weather gods that it is June. The 50 degree temps and rain should be over with by now.
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Posted on Wednesday, 4th June 2008 by admin
I’m getting old…
There, I said it. Deep breath, then exhale slowly. I keep telling myself it is going to be okay ala “Gross Pointe Blank” style.
Recently it seems that more and more of the things from my childhood are being brought back around again. Some of them arguably should have stayed there, but that is [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 21st May 2008 by admin
Here we go again…
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Posted on Friday, 16th May 2008 by admin
We don’t get these kind of temps often, but the real kick in the pants is that it was only 58 degrees for a high 48 hours ago.
My brother in law had it worse…
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Posted on Friday, 16th May 2008 by admin
It would seem that reports of the PC Clubs’ death may have been premature! PCClub.com is back up and running, and the stores will be soon. It would seem that NAOC Holdings has acquired PC Club and says:
“Brick-and-mortar accessory computer stores are still a valued commodity in the US,” said NAOC spokesperson Alan Hunter. “We [...]
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