I Finally Caved in.....

I got a twitter account.

Follow me here.

Hope to see some of you on there.

Wikipedia Crashed!

Just yesterday Wikipedia was offline for several hours after one of their servers went down. Wikipedia is one of the largest websites and most used on the internet, so to see a giant like that crash is pretty serious. Luckily though, their technical teams resolved the issue fairly quickly. I can't imagine the chaos that would be caused if the Google network went down for several hours. Considering that Google consists of: The most popular search engine, The most popular video sharing site, one of the most popular blogging sites, online advertising, news, Gmail, Image search, and more....

Pennsays and PennPoint

I've been a big fan of Penn Jillette for a long time, so when I found out he had a video blog on youtube I subscribed straight away, and I watched all the videos he had made before I started watching too. His vlog called Pennsays was being managed and run by a division of Sony called Crackle, and they being the corporate assholes that they are, decided to make all their channels only available inside the U.S. so no one else on earth was allowed to watch them. This made me rather mad, and I even did a blog post about it. That was a long time ago now, and just yesterday I discovered that Penn has stopped doing vlogs for Sony, and has started up a new video series on another website called Revision3 Internet Television. As a Penn and Teller fan, I'm pretty excited to be allowed to watch vlogs again.....

But seriously, he always talks about very interesting things, go check out his new video series HERE.

New Zealands shocking internet

Since the storm in Auckland last wednesday, my (and a few others I know) internet connection has been wreaking havoc with my sanity. Millisecond disconnects that stop a page/video/image from loading, bad latency with speed test servers, game servers, voice chat and even a long delay when trying to get websites to load.
I'm just venting my frustration in writing, it makes me feel better.

I'll have to call up my ISP tomorrow, just to wait for 2 hours on hold and have them ping my IP address and tell me that everything is fine, when I bloody well know something is seriously wrong, A copper wire somewhere is probably fried.