i’d rather be in haena   

Sorry GHWB – you employed Lee Atwater, so leave the high road to people who can do justice to the territory. When it comes to political analysis, stick to jumping out of airplanes; you’re better at it.

Just had to send an alternate gmail address to over 3000 email contacts. Klassy!

Today I noticed that most of my incoming email was date-stamped up to eight hours before I received it.

Actually, it’s now 3:30am and I just got an email from my girlfriend that was sent at 3:30pm yesterday.

I checked Speakeasy’s system status and no problems were being reported. I opened a support ticket on Speakeasy’s site at 10:45 last night and got this answer back within 20 minutes:

This is a known issue that is being resolved. As the server back logs are being cleared expect emails to continue trickling in. Currently, we expect the server backlog to clear in the next few hours. No emails have been lost, but as you’ve noticed, there have been some delays.

Yeah, I noticed. Nearly all my work email (and that of 20 employees at our office) was similarly delayed on a very, very busy Monday…and still showing up in my inbox up to 12 hours late on the following Tuesday. Speakeasy’s system status box still reports no problems.

It’s times like this when (again) I wonder if it’s prudent to have a company owned by Best Buy as your ISP.

I’ve been trying to sign up online for two days. After four attempts I think I’ll give up.

First attempt: can’t get past the “agree to these conditions” screen. I get a message saying too many users are trying to access the system. This goes on all Sunday night.

Today I logged in again and, mercifully, got past the problem screen. I fill in all the billing info, click ‘next,’ and am told my credit card info is wrong (after a 3 minute wait). I click the button that tells me to correct the info and find that I have to re-enter everything again.

I grit my teeth and do so. I click “next”.

Five minutes later I get kicked out of the system with a timeout message. Apparently my card hasn’t been charged, but there’s no way to determine that.

I decide someone has to politely inform these folks that their online ordering system sucks.

I go to the contact page and find no email contact, or way to get in touch with a web admin.

I decide waiting in line at the Bay Bridge tollbooths is slightly less frustrating than this.

Number 1 on my top 10 list of advice to MySpace: Ignore Jason Calacanis.

We saw this in San Francisco after the dotcom bust in 2000.
Pets are family members and they are NOT to be unloaded as inconveniences. There’s rentals out there that accept pets. It just takes a minimum of effort to track such places down.
People who ditch their pets in this manner never deserved them in the first place.