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Posted on Wednesday, 30th July 2008 by Shaun Kester

Just some random thoughts on website hosting…
I keep checking the Media Temple System Status page by hitting F5 repeatedly. I’m having Account Center withdrawals, it has been down all morning. All of my sites are still up, just the control panel is taking a day off. They give us customers such neat tools that not [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 15th July 2008 by Shaun Kester

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 Shaun Kester

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 Shaun Kester

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 Shaun Kester

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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