Skype: The Single Bullet Theory

August 20, 2007 · Filed Under Social Media, Media 2.0, Technology · Comment 

“On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted …”singlebullet.jpg

OK, well it just sort of had that familiar sound to it….

Other more authoritative and/or reverent opinions run the gamut from not buying it(O’Reilly Emerging Technology) , just passing it along (ZDNet, TechCrunch), call PR (ValleyWag), call Darwin (Stowe Boyd), you get what you pay for (Businessweek ).

Techmeme , Google if you need to know more.

Ob la di Ob la daworks for me. Or is it Hakuna Matata. Whatever


Goodbye Typepad…Hello Wordpress (Beta)

August 13, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 3 Comments 

UPDATE: RSS Feeds are currently being fixed and are expected to be fully working by 12am CST tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience.

UPDATE: Most links to this site are now correctly routed. There may still be a few posts that don’t forward correctly so please just search for them on the new blog.

Asking Typepad support for help is like trying to see the Major in Catch-22; you are lead around in big circle but the question is never answered. The Major is never quite in.

The latest: A series of error messages that asked that I report what I was doing when the error occurred. I deligently informed them what I had been doing via the little box provided and just as diligently I would get a response from Typepad support asking what I was doing when the error occurred. At first, what I was doing was not important. On Friday, what I was doing was trying to publish a post. So after filling out the little “tell us what you were doing” form several times, I opened up a help ticket that said “I cannot publish a post.” Thus the all too familiar circle game began.

What were you doing? What was I doing when I couldn’t publish a post? Clicking on publish….

Eventually, I got a semblance of an answer. Something to do with Technorati code. Technorati and my blog are another one of life’s unsolved mysteries. Despite many email responses from Technorati’s Janice Myint I still don’t get their link count and try to ignore it. I have been talking about a move to Word Press for over a year….this seemed like an idea whose time had come.

I have never understood why Typepad provides such poor tech support; but then again, why does anyone?

Stowe Boyd recently blogged Typepad Headache 506 and Typepad Headache 507. I am glad someone is keeping count.

So, thanks to Chris I have made the move and so far so good. For awhile though, this blog design will be a work in process; a beta, perhaps, like the rest of life.

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