Event Review

Vegas Vacation

I’m mere hours away from taking a little vacation to Las Vegas along with my wife, and my roommate. Tomorrow morning I will board a Virgin America flight (I’m much looking forward to trying them out), for Las Vegas. I’ve got a lot of fun planned, including one last trip to the Star Trek...

Aug 19, 2008 2 minute read.

Technology

GMail Down

In the latest in my ongoing series of Major websites experiencing outages, GMail has been down for at least the last hour. Google’s Mail service is excellent and over all I’ve always been pleased with it. Their servers are redundant, I don’t have problems with lost email messages, and the spam...

Aug 11, 2008 2 minute read.

Technology

Blogging on the iPhone

I’ve blogged from my iPhone before so this isn’t exactly new, but this post was written using the new WordPress iPhone native app just released in the app store today. I like it! As an update, I still haven’t acquired a new iPhone 3G, but JMac seems to have finally joined the iPhone revolution...

Jul 22, 2008 1 minute read.

Technology

iPhone 3G: Um, guess I'm gonna wait...

Went down to the apple store with Tim to check out the new iPhone 3G that was released today. But even at 6:30 p.m. (the phone had already been on sale for 10 and a half hours), the line was still stretched all the way around the Apple Store. I’m going to wait and hopefully pick one up next week...

Jul 11, 2008 1 minute read.

Technology

Facebook - whoops there goes another major site!

Two weeks ago I posted about Amazon.com being down for hours , tonight, another major website has gone down without warning, and has a very ugly error message, just like Amazon did. At this time the error message (shown on the right) has been up for at least 20 minutes with no sign of repair, in...

Jun 19, 2008 1 minute read.

News

Amazon down but not out

Amazon.com is experiencing an outage, the most complete I’ve ever seen on the site. The last time I saw an outage on the site was Christmas before last when they were offering mad sales to the first 100 customers on certain items, but even then they had a helpful error page, rather than just a...

Jun 06, 2008 1 minute read.

Technology

Amazon Still down, money down too

I previously reported that Amazon.com was down with a non-descriptive error message. After almost 2 of downtime it seems they’ve decided to have a friendlier error message , so it seems at least they are acknowledging that something is wrong now, but it is still down. According to CNet, this...

Jun 06, 2008 1 minute read.

Media Mentions

Interview with Nick Moline published in PC World Magazine!

Ok, I admit it, I haven’t been a subscriber to PC World magazine in a few years, even before I became a member of the Mac camp, but I’m really excited to say that a couple of interview questions with me are now published in PC World! in an article about Google I/O. It was very cool to be able to...

Jun 02, 2008 1 minute read.

Event Review

Google App Engine: Google I/O 2008 Part I

This week I, as well as my Wife Barbara , and my co-worker Dan , went to Google I/O . People who have read my blog for a while may remember that last year I attended Google Developer Day around this same time in San Jose. This year Google decided to expand from a single-day to a whole two-day...

Jun 01, 2008 4 minute read.