Hmm, I don’ t hope this is going to be a trend, but this morning around 10:20am (GMT) Google Gmail went down globally! Since then it has failed to come up again. I noticed it because my Gmail checker on my Mac ceased to work and said it timed out. Off course I tried to find out if it was just my connection or if something else was going on. I soon ran into a page in the UK that confirmed what I figured out already: Gmail is down globally! And it’s the second big outage in two months. On […]
Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.
I think the title of this post largely sums up what the difference is between Mac and PC. However, if you work long enough with both OS’s – like I do – you’ll find things you don’t like with both platforms. Usually when I blog about computer annoyances, it is about Windows annoyances. But this time I’ll write about a specific Mac OS X annoyance I endure every day. Just as a bit of background: back in 2002 I switched from one company (Lost Boys) to another (VGM). The first company was a full-fledged Internet company, the latter a pre-press company that […]
Gone Phishing
Ok, lovely. This morning my website seemed to be down. So, as usual I wrote the grease monkeys of Site5 about this. The reply was a bit unsettling: Hi, IP address of your account has been null-routed by our datacenter due to phishing content on one of your accounts: — The Planet or its upstream providers has received a complaint related to a probable violation of The Planet s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). We are forwarding a copy of the report, requesting that you take appropriate measures to address the issue. The server in question is hosting a phishing site at […]
“A true Gadgeteer”
“A true Gadgeteer” All right folks, I have a confession to make: I’m a slave of modern technology. If something cool and new comes out, I just have to have it. Ok, I do not own a state of the art plasma TV or stuff like that (I am not a millionaire), but I do own 2 Pc’s, 3 PDA’s, 3 phones, my car is equipped with GPS, I have internet via cable (and my own network), I work with Windows, Linux and OS X, etc. etc…. So when I finally saw the brand new Sony Ericsson P800mobile phone this […]
Blogger sucks!
Nice free service I thought. Well publishing something to my page seems hardly possible: although Blogger states “upload successful”, it turns out that checking the FTP log actually states it DID NOT work.. Grrrr…