Monthly Archives: November 2005

Down For Maintenance in the Middle of the Day

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Stuff like this certainly leads me to question the technical and service credibility of the folks at google and blogger:

Blogger Network Outage
We are currently down for network maintenence from 12pm (noon) to 2pm PST.

Those of you who support real production network environments will know what I mean. You just don’t schedule maintenance during times when your service or network is going to be used by many people.
Yea, I suppose it is possible, given the wordwide nature of the web, that this is the least busy period of their week and if this is so that suggests that blogspot’s biggest use is in the time zones serving the middle east, China, Japan, The Philipines, etc.
Interesting. And a pain as I was working on a post that has links into the blogspot world. Oh well, it will wait.

Friday Ark #59

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We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?

Alert: Comments do not seem to be posting below but we are getting notifications of your comments. Feel free to use one of the other options if you want some additional certainty that we have received notification. We do not mind the duplications. We aren’t going to research this problem until we are caught up with all the pending boardings in a few hours.

We will add your post to the list if you do one of the following:

  • Leave a comment or trackback to this post,
  • Use the Carnival Submission Form,
  • Email Modulator or
  • Our extensive staff finds it during our weekly search of the web

Of course, if our staff goes on strike then we will link only those posts someone tells us about.
Visit each border and come back regularly Friday-Sunday to visit new boarders. And do link to the Friday Ark whether you use trackbacks or not.

New: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.
Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 85th edition will be hosted this week by Pages Turned. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff’s Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants.

  • New: Laurence has started a The Catbloggers Frappr Map. Go shout out!

    • Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. Send your links for the 10th edition to Mike. The 9th edition is up and hosted by the Living the Scientific Lige.
    New for the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The first edition is up at Milk River Blog.
    Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
    Update (10:23 ET): Updates will be slow and we will not be caught up until after 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Sorry for the delays today…
    Cats

    Invertebrates

    Dogs

    BirdsOther VertebratesIn MemoriamDidn’t Make It
    Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page and The TTLB Uber Carnival
    Note for Haloscan Users: Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted “too rapidly” by the same host. I don’t know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I’m sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh….

    My Answer Is C

    This entry was posted in Religion on by

    Here is the quiz:

    Imagine yourself in the following scenario:
    You’ve just returned home from a day at work. While you set your keys on the kitchen counter and remove your coat you can hear the familiar voices of your roommate and her/his S.O. in the other room.
    You start to wonder about what you might make yourself for dinner when suddenly you are startled by a loud gunshot, followed by what sounds like a body falling to the floor. Rather than getting the hell out of there you somewhat foolishly run to the other room to see what happened. Once there, you see your roommate standing there, arm outstretched, holding a still-smoking pistol pointed at what is now, apparently, a corpse.
    Your roommate looks at you and says “Santa Claus did it.”
    Do you:
    a) Sincerely believe that your roommate is telling the actual truth?
    b) Decide that, because you didn’t actually see your roommate fire the gun, you just can’t know one way or another whether Santa did it?
    c) Consider your roommate a murderer, and the claim to be the rationalization of a mind that has snapped?

    Yes, I initially have to go with c and act accordingly. Subsequent evidence may validate an alternate conclusion but that is not relevant to the scenario as presented.
    Read the rest and comment here.
    Via Pharyngula.