Archive for February, 2008

What Happens When Your Server Has Issues

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Photo Credit: discopalace

Recently we have experiencing some really odd network issues here at work and the only way that we found out we were having issues was I could not get to my blog or any other site that I host on one of our public servers.

Here at work we have two internet feeds, one with Shaw and the other with Telus (combined speed of 10mbps). It seems that on our Shaw lines (dual T1s) we were experiencing …

New Facebook App: FriendsChange

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Ok now I am not one of those Facebook users who randomly add people to their friends list to make themselves look more popular, but one thing that has been recently bugged me is when my friends count drops and I can’t figure out who removed me as a friend (nor why they would).

My little sister said that I should go through my list and see who has recently left my list but going through 200 names to …

San Francisco: Pier 39 and Alcatraz

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

The last day that I was California for last week we decide that we had enough time to try and hit something touristy in the San Francisco area so I thought about looking at Pier 39.  The sky was clear, the smog was hanging, and the sun was warm. Which is a lot better than back home where it was cloudy, raining and in some spots snowing.