A Bad Day Gardening Is Better Than….
…just about anything, and yesterday wasn’t a bad day, neither. Here’s what the front patio looks like after a few hours’ sprucing-up on Sunday.
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The Most Annoying Name in News Allegedly Caught with Methamphetamine and Sex Toy After Curfew in NYC’s Central Park
Ordinarily I’d ignore sordid stuff like this, but Richard Quest is the most annoying person on CNN– and for a network that employs Nancy Grace, Glenn Beck and Larry King, that’s quite a ranking.
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“An open letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos”
I was going to post a shorter rant along the same lines, but this guy says it so much better.
Crux:
As a journalist, you appeared to confirm all of the worst qualities that cause people to hold our profession in such low esteem, especially your obsession with cornering the candidates with lame “trick” questions and your complete lack of interest or concern about substance — or about the American people, or the state of our nation.
Tom Shales also awards ABC “loser” status.
Speakeasy is Sucking
I’ve been using Speakeasy for DSL, email and various other things since 1999.
Last year they were bought by Best Buy. I shuddered, and braced for Speakeasy to begin sucking.
At work we use them for T1 and hosting our website. All our employees depend on Speakeasy for email.
Tonight at 5:15 my email client began repeatedly requesting password authentication for all its various Speakeasy email addresses. Entering the passwords would do no good; the program would just ask again.
I switched to “MySpeakeasy” webmail. Sometimes I could log on, sometimes I got bumped off. Luckily email was still being received and stored.
I looked at Speakeasy’s System Status popup:
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04/16/08 06:18:42 AM
MySpeak and Mail Issues
Region : All
E.T.A. : None
Services Affected : Webmail, Mail
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties affecting our mail service including mail delivery, Webmail login, and MySpeak login.
Our engineers are currently looking into the issue.
We thank you for your patience as we work to resolve these issues as soon as possible.
Update: 04/16/08 06:38:22 AM
This issue has been considered resolved at this time.
Update: 04/16/08 08:57:15 AM
Login to MySpeak and Webmail may be intermittent again.
Our engineers are aware of the issue and are now looking to resolve it ASAP.
Update: 04/16/08 10:15:58 AM
This issue is now resolved again.
Update: 04/16/08 06:41:06 PM
This issue has recurred, so customers will experience authentication problems when attempting to access their email or MySpeakeasy. We continue to work on a full resolution of this issue.
Update: 04/16/08 10:10:21 PM
Email services and myspeak are working at this time. The services may continue to be intermittent. We continue to work on a full resolution of this issue.
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It’s now 12:10 the next morning. I logged on to my office computer via Timbuktu: still no email downloaded since 5:15pm.
Speakeasy is sucking.
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