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Thursday, November 6, 2003

Power outage

My apartment seems to be plagued by blackouts. Daypop is currently rebuilding its database...

posted at 15:08 - 2 comments

Monday, October 13, 2003

Comment spam bots

I'm glad there are people out there working on alleviating the problem of comment spamming.

http://james.seng.cc/archives/000145.html

That kind of spamming affects the Top 40 and it's hard keeping on top of it all.

posted at 2:49 - 1 comments

Monday, September 15, 2003

Another power outage

I was waiting on Friday morning for Covad to come look at my DSL line when I decided to call Speakeasy just to reconfirm. They tell me Covad had already been out to my place, rang up and no one was there! Impossible, I said, I've been here all morning. It turns out Covad decided to come out earlier than scheduled and had forgotten to notify Speakeasy or maybe Speakeasy forgot to notify me, but they were there the day before. What's the point in making an appointment for Friday if they can just decide to come on Thursday?

Covad finally makes it out on Saturday afternoon. It turns out the DSL modem is flaky, so I get a replacement. Daypop is back online.

Last night, the power went out again. This is an uphill battle.

posted at 12:21 - 0 comments

Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Speakeasy.net

Not having much luck with this DSL line which has been flaky all along. I went through Speakeasy.net again, even though this is a residential line because I had a good experience with them with my last SDSL line. When I called for this last outage which started Saturday, they told me I had about 32kbits bandwidth (down from 1.5Mbits) and that they'd have to dispatch a technician to look at the line. The soonest they can have someone out here is Friday! It seems like they should prorate this line if it's going to be out for a week. As if waiting for minutes at a time for pages to load when browsing wasn't bad enough, Daypop services are obviously adversely affected.

posted at 0:35 - 0 comments

Thursday, August 28, 2003

Power outage

I returned from NY yesterday and it looked like there was a power outage while I was away which rebooted the servers! As if the Top 40 wasn't in bad enough shape. I fixed it up and got rid of the link spammers and the Top 40 is back to normal today!

The News Burst page is still wrong and there's some work left in cleaning up the Top Weblogs page.

posted at 9:23 - 0 comments

Sunday, August 24, 2003

Top 40

It looks like the Top 40 is still messed up. In addition to it being in an initialization state, there's been a couple cases of link spamming but I'm in New York so I'm unable to correct anything for the next few days.

posted at 8:28 - 1 comments

Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Interview

David at Joystick.org just posted an interview with me.

posted at 21:17 - 1 comments

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