From my hosting company: We are experiencing network issues as a result of a power failure at our data center. As the outage occurred only on the floor our servers are housed in, and because power was still being generated to the rest of the building, our backup generators did not identify this as an [...]
Posts under ‘Annoyances’
My Birthday Present – Jury duty
<sarcasm> I just wanted to thank the Superior Court of California for summoning me for jury duty on my birthday in May.</sarcasm> I fully believe the jury system is an important part of our society but, like many government things, the implementation is really terrible. I could go on a rant for a while about [...]
Ceramic glass electric cooktops
Our new place has a ceramic glass electric cooktop from Whirlpool. I really don’t understand the popularity of these things. My first choice would be gas, but gas cooktops are hard to find in the Bay Area in newer (non high-end) constructions. Although the traditional coil electric burners are a bit ugly, they are so [...]
People can’t drive
The other day while at a furniture store, some idiot scraped my bumper. I’m sure it was him as there was only one white car in the parking lot. What makes this remarkable is that this white Honda Pilot was parked on my passenger side. This person managed to arc all the way around while [...]
The obligatory spam rant
We’ve recently been dealing with some issues with spam filters erroneously catching activation emails from Hungry Critic. While I was dealing with the issues, I initially got irritated with the spammers. Then I thought about it, and it’s really the fault of the users. Spammers obviously continue this behavior since it works. So these emails [...]