Twitter Down – September 15th 2009
September 15, 2009 at 1:24 pm | In 1 | Leave a CommentTwitter is currently down today, September 15th 2009. This is the error that I’m seeing: “Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”
All these tools checking if twitter is up or down are actually fake.
Now it’s up again, I wonder how long they can pull this one on people, before everyone deserts to another platform.
Smashing Magazine down
September 2, 2009 at 9:40 pm | In Not the most useful posts... | Leave a CommentTags: attack, digg, DOS, DOS attack, down for maintenance, dugg, magazine, maintenance, smashing, smashing magazine
It’s official, one of the most dugg websites, smashingmagazine.com is down. This is what you see when you visit their website:
(Update: 16:11 CST, 23:11 CET) SM’s servers have a problem, possibly an attack. Temporary solution: we are loading a backup on an external server cluster. Please stay tuned.
(Update: 15:59 CST, 22:59 CET) We are working hard to find a solution. Meanwhile, please follow us on Twitter to keep informed about updates.
(Update: 14:58 CST, 21:58 CET) Smashing Magazine is down for maintenance, please check back later, thank you.
First they say they’re down for maintenance, and then they say it’s an attack (maybe a DOS attack). Wonder how long and how severe it is… Hope they’ll be back soon!
Bing – The New Search Engine
June 5, 2009 at 6:47 pm | In 1 | Leave a CommentTags: bing, bing search engine, excellent search engine, google, google competitor, microsoft, new search engine, search engine, yahoo
Microsoft has released Bing, an excellent search engine similar to Google’s minus Google’s erratic craziness.
I have searched Bing for a lot of terms and they all returned very relevant results, additionally, Bing is gaining a huge momentum (I hope it will be sustained) and is already stealing traffic from Google and Yahoo. I guess the latter search engines should get their act straight, or they will be binged.
I also thing that Bing is a better and easier name than Yahoo and Google.
Way to go Microsoft, and welcome back!
Is Technorati Going Downhill?
May 12, 2009 at 5:06 pm | In 1 | Leave a CommentI’ve been monitoring technorati for the last few months and I’m noticing that its quality is really degrading. Extremely slow, searches are not working, and feeds are not working (they are claiming right now that feeds are working after they moved their severs somewhere else, but they’re not).
Anyway, technorati is nothing more than a feed agregator, its community is shrinking, and I think Google should stop indexing it as it’s essentially indexing another search engine (with the small addition of grouping stuff by tags).
Technorati’s look & feel is also outdated by today’s standards. Can’t wait for a real competition.
Susan Boyle and the Media Circus
April 22, 2009 at 9:22 pm | In Not the most useful posts... | 1 CommentTags: boyle, CNN, hypocrisy, joe the plumber, media circus, pirates, Quidditch, somali pirates, susan, susan boyle
Is it just me, or this whole “We are all blessed because we live in a time where we can enjoy the admirable and wonderful talents of Susan Boyle” thing is getting out of hands. Sooner or later she’s gonna have her own cult of reborn hippies (just search on wordpress.com for these people).
I saw the videos, heard her sing, not impressed. I guess CNN and the likes don’t have real stories to report on so they create this hype and people follow (excluding, of course, the 12 year old Somali pirates being chased by destroyers).
Just to shed a light on the hypocrisy of this whole thing, one of the questions she was asked on CNN was :”Is it right you were never kissed?”, now what does that have to do with the singing? Pure hypocrisy, I tell ya!
My opinion that this whole thing is fabricated, and I have to say that I’m not alone. This, this, and this (sorry couldn’t find a third link) fully agree with me.
I expect this Media Circus will soon be over before you can say Quidditch (If it’s not than I expect women will be dressed as Susan Boyle). Joe the plumber, anyone?
Dreaming About My Past Job
March 31, 2009 at 12:26 am | In Not the most useful posts... | Leave a CommentTags: dream, dreaming, dreams, job, jobs, missed opportunities, missing friends, nightmare, previous job
Every once in a while I dream about my past job. Well, it’s more of a nightmare than a dream. I quit my past job almost 4 years ago, but I still have dreams about it, I still dream that instead of quitting after a long vacation I decided to come back. I think the problem was that, in my previous job, I felt that I actually built something.
I loved my previous job and I hated it, I don’t regret leaving as I had no choice. I do miss the people, my friends, the country I was in, and the opportunities I would’ve had had I stayed.
My previous job was hell, but it left something (sweet) inside of me, and, in some ways, I think it made me a better manager and a better man.
Hitman the Movie Review: I want my 90 minutes back
March 29, 2009 at 5:27 am | In movie reviews | Leave a CommentTags: blu-ray movies, hitman, hitman blu-ray, hitman is crap, hitman the movie, movie, movie reviews, movies, my 90 minutes
Now I don’t consider myself dumb, nor does my family, nor does my friends, nor does the people I work with. I just didn’t get this movie. Every Friday I have some friends over to watch a movie and I chose, based on the twisted recommendation of the salesman, to buy the blu-ray version of Hitman.
What a waste of time and money. Here’s the movie in a nutshell:
Cons
- Crazy, weak, and incomprehensible plot.
- Director must’ve been on crack or something, because the tatoo of the woman in one scene was on one cheek, a few seconds later, it was on the other, and it remained there for the rest of the movie.
- The quality of the blu-ray sucks (but doesn’t suck as much as the Stargate movie)
- You don’t even care what’s going on, you just want the damn thing to get finished, because you’re not even watching, and the sound is creating a diversion from the much more interesting conversation you’re having with your friends.
- There’s only one person from that movie that I recognized, the Interpol detective (or whatever you want to call him).
- When I said that you just don’t care what’s going on, I really meant it!
Pros
- The movie is only 90 minutes.
Unless you’re 12 and you don’t care if the movie has no plot, and directed by someone probably your age, the I suggest you move along, there’s nothing for you here.
Google PageRank Disappears From All Websites, Except for Google
March 24, 2009 at 5:11 pm | In Not the most useful posts... | Leave a CommentTags: google, google pagerank, page rank, pagerank, pagerank disappearing, pagerank disappears, webmasters
I’ve noticed since this morning that the pagerank of every single website disappeared (showing no pagerank information), except for Google’s, who’s still there at a mighty 10.
Let’s see if websites (other than Google) will get their pagerank back. Well, someone at Google once said: “Webmasters are free to do whatever they wanted on their websites, and Google is free to do whatever it wants with its index”.
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Three Wolf Moon T-shirt Gone Viral
May 21, 2009 at 7:25 pm | In Not the most useful posts... | 3 CommentsTags: 3 wolf, amazon, bogus comments, bogus reviews, marketing, oursourcing your job, t-shirt, the mountain, three wolf moon t-shirt, viral, wolf
OK, the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt from Amazon is now officially viral. Hundreds of useless (yet hilarious) reviews are now posted, and, according to the BBC, its sales are up 2300%, and it’s now in the top 10 of Amazon’s apparel section.
The Mountain, which is the maker of these T-shirts, is not very satisfied with the comments this T-shirt has gathered on Amazon. Well, my answer to them is, you should enjoy it guys, and you’ll see how silliness can end up as money in your bank account.
While you’re at it, and if you’re outsourcing your job and literally have nothing to do, check this guy’s reviews on Amazon.
I guess that there’s no such thing as bad advertisement.