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Friday Afternoon Thoughts
February 15, 2008 |
Just a couple of thoughts in no particular order - it’s Friday after all and so far, not a single bitchmeme has sprung up…
- Who ever thought that a computer in the cloud would be completely immune to outages? Nobody ever promised that as far as I can see. Even Amazon only promises a 99.9% uptime.
Also, the outage really wasn’t that big a deal - at least not big enough to justify the paranoia in the TechCrunch comments on the story. - SCO is back? How the hell could that happen? I thought that collective nightmare of all Linux users had died an excruciatingly painful death of bankruptcy. Apparently some Saudi prince thought it was a good idea to pump money into this decrepit piece of garbage.
- Steven Hodson’s piece on Feeling adrift in the blogosphere and other thoughts is a must read. He echoes a lot of my own feelings (not so much about feeling adrift, but about browsers, tabs, idealism etc.), but I haven’t been able to really formulate my answers to the many questions he raises yet. If you have some time, you should read it.
- Twitter writes a post explaining why the profile images were down for 2-3 minutes today, but they hardly ever communicate anything about their own, hour-long outages. Maybe they were happy to finally have somebody else to blame for a problem…
- Did I miss graduating from primary school, or are there really some people out there seriously arguing whether Seattle is better than Silicon Valley? It’s not even a question - Portland, OR has them all beat.
- I find myself slowly drifting more towards using a desktop feedreader again. The delay before items appear in Google Reader is often simply too long. And now that FeedDemon is free, I really have no excuse not to use it. If only it automatically marked items as read after I scroll past them or click on them, I would be really happy.
- The Elite Tech reddit handily sailed past 500 subscribers yesterday. We now have more subscribers than Obama, Perl, pets, and the environment. Not bad.
Oh, and I really hope that this video is staged and not real… (NSFW if you have your speakers on, btw?)
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