What Would Osama Do ?

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.
We are on final approach to election day, with just over three months before Americans step into the voting booth to elect the next President of the United States.
Both of the “presumptive” major party candidates, John McCain (R) and Barack Obama (D), have been focusing their rhetoric on [...]

More Proof That The Gray Lady Is Hurting !

Five months ago, we wrote about job cuts at the New York Times (a.k.a. “The Gray Lady“). This week, the New York Times announced their latest price increase. Once again, Times readers will pay more, but get less (that is, those readers who remain readers despite the price increase). And New York Times [...]

Dear President Bush: Send More Money !

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Bush,
Just wanted to let you know that we received the very generous “economic stimulus” check you sent us recently. It was greatly appreciated.
We thank you.
ExxonMobil thanks you.
The oil speculators thank you.
Saudi Arabia thanks you.
(just to name a few)
Oh, I almost forgot… [...]

Amazon Web Services… Not Quite “Five Nines” Uptime !

…Not five nines,
…or four nines,
…not even three nines (99.9% uptime) !
If you tried to visit some of the Web’s most popular sites for a good part of the day yesterday, July 20, 2008, you were likely disappointed. Sites like WordPress (where this blog is hosted), Twitter, SmugMug and others, were impacted for hours yesterday because [...]

Of Blogs And Bugs

This is one bug we can’t blame on Microsoft.
While writing our last post to this blog, the cute little fellow pictured above came scurrying across the floor, and stopped right in front of us. I’d swear he was looking at our computer screen. Maybe he was thinking of starting his own bug blog.
He [...]