For some favorite pics from the past 3 days, try http://friendfeed.com/mitchell.... My teeth are super-lousy with very weak tooth enamel. If I don't take care of them, my next dentist visit has 4-6 cavities. :-( - Mitchell Tsai
I *JUST* saw the same sign at a bar in Key West last week. - Gary Bacon II
I find this statistic slightly depressing actually. I wonder what the bell curve is for global weight in terms of body mass index or something. - J. Phil
Clearly we need a better fat distribution algorithm. - felix
kind of reminds me of the Digg algorithm.... we try and fix the hunger algorithm and promote people to the well fed page and we clearly over do it. - Stefan Hayden
In combination with the rising temperature everybody is talking about there are some nice graphs to make conserning the amount of sweat that is produced daily. I bet there is a good use for that too. - Ruud van Wijngaarden
“If it matters to anyone who decides to visit an obscure little blog called WinExtra you will notice that all my posts from June 20th onward are missing courtesy of my hosting company apparently misplacing them during a server transfer.”
right now I am so fucking mad I could spit - not only has this affected the blog(s) but also the WinExtra forums. I cxan only hope that somehow they get this fixed ... I need a coffee ..... - Steven Hodson
Wow, Stephen, that really sucks. They should be all over trying to fix the problem if they're at all reasonable. Good luck! - Voyagerfan5761
I wondered about that Steven. Saw all the FF comments re: the podcast and was going to check it out. But couldn't land on the page. - Hutch Carpenter
Can they at least confirm that they are recoverable? That's like bush league stuff right there. Get it restored and get out as soon as you can. - Mark Trapp
Please name that hosting company. I'm going to get around to starting a new blog one of these days and am looking for a good host. - AJ Kohn
@Voyagerfan .. right now I can tell they are working on the email end of it because I am being flooded with what is now dupes of my email for the past two weeks .. maybe I should get something stronger to put in this coffee. - Steven Hodson
wow, that is awful. :( When things are back if you're running wordpress you should try the plugin that mails you backups of your db. I have them sent to a gmail account and it's good peace of mind. - felix
@Hutch sorry about that ... and people wonder why I get cranky :) - Steven Hodson
Damn, Steven. That is horrible. I'm with AJ. I wanna know who this is. - Rahsheen Porter
to be fair they have been good to me in the past moving me from a shared server setup to a new cluster server setup with no extra fees being charged. But since that point I have been having problems on and off. Hopefully they will be able to get this all fixed up and things will go back to normal. @Mark as much as I might like to move hosts it is something I can't afford at this point. - Steven Hodson
@Susan I don't have those kind of financial resources to just up an switch unfortunately. In addition to the above they did send out an email notifying me of the transfer and not to be posting anything for a period of time as it might get lost ROFL .. would be nice if they wouldn't lose what I've already posted ... so I sit here with fingers crossed .. this is going to be a long day - Steven Hodson
wow that sucks steven - hope they can fix. - MG Siegler
This is why I run a cron job that emails a MySQL and WP backup to one of my gmail accounts every night. Good luck with the recovery! - Bill Sodeman via fftogo
wow, that's really cool! Can they do that to mine :p - Rob Diana
Blog Backup Online dot com. I'm just saying. - Cyndy
Oh wow. Sorry to hear that Steven, that's seriously uncool! I'd be going over the contract fine print right about now. - J. Phil
Cyndy - is this blogbackuponline place legit? - J. Phil
J. Phil Very legit. I will vouch for them personally... it's a service from Techrigy, which also produces SM2. - Cyndy
Bad news, that explains why the feed was showing content from months ago. Hope you get it fixed. - Duncan Riley
@Duncan well I seem to have returned from the time warp I found myself in :) the hosting company said the migration was for the most part completed today with some DB's still to move but everything should finally be back to normal (as normal as that can be around here :) ). - Steven Hodson
@Christian - funnily enough that was my biggest concern over the whole incident. Was more pissed that other bloggers could be affected by this than anything else - Steven Hodson
All: an API client malfunctioned or intentionally spammed with these comments. We disabled that API client to prevent the problem, and we are reaching out to the developer. - Bret Taylor
Workarounds: (1) Make ":-)" comments instead of links - Polly's idea (2) Edit a comment by (a) making a new comment (b) deleting the old one. - Mitchell Tsai
At Fri 10:31 pm EDT, my "likes" are working again. If you guys did something, many thanks! - Mitchell Tsai
Oh well, used 8 more likes, and at hit the limit again at 10:40 pm EDT (from 860/week to 868/week). But my "edits" are working again. Yay! - Mitchell Tsai
Hit the "edit-comment" limit again at 10:48 pm EDT. - Mitchell Tsai
Voyagerfan5761: The limits are roughly ~260-300/day, so you're not anywhere close to hitting them. It's just us like-comment-addicts. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
That is a massive amount of likes in a day, you are definitely an addict! - Joe Dawson
at least twitter realizes what a problem this is. just buy summize please. - MG Siegler
srsly. i hate having to rely on the web version of twitter, first of all, then having the reply tab bork, and then having to go to summize, and hit reply there and pray that twitter works. It's why I only check Twitter once or twice a day now. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
If your application requires you to tell your users to go SOMEWHERE ELSE for the use of YOUR AP, you have a much, much bigger problem than you think you do. - Alexander Williams
/Like twice: Once for the conversation as a whole and once for Alexander's comment. - Voyagerfan5761
sure... it's the last thing keeping me connected to the conversation in twitter; without TweetBeep I would have left twitter much earlier due to the outages and disabled @replies feature - Susan Beebe
Oops i forgot to post link... www.pelikoira.net/collabtive we use that for bug/task tracking, google code for code tracking. - k00pa via fftogo
Despite Google Code having an issue tracker...? OK... - Voyagerfan5761
It, er, won't let me change my profile (particularly password). It says I need to enter a valid value for E-mail, even after I do so. - Voyagerfan5761
I haven't had any problems with Collabtive, though I have noticed that it is a bit rough around the edges. It isn't a major problem, in my opinion. - possible248
I got around it by using Firebug to run document.forms[0].submit(); on the user edit page. JS hackery FTW! :D I still think Google Code's built-in tools would be just fine... - Voyagerfan5761
Meh, k00pa suggested Collabtive, and I only got the Google Code page after we had posted a couple messages on Collabtive. We'll see what happens. - possible248 via NoiseRiver
Fantastic!
oAuth is a huge enabler for the "enterprise 2.0" community, where security and control are of much higher concern than for most of us recreational/social web nerds.
Not sharing personal passwords is a good thing. Selective sharing of data and capabilities is a good thing. oAuth means that two parties who do not trust each other can still collaborate to solve bigger problems. That's a very good thing.
Good for Google, PhotoBucket, and SmugMug. Hopefully Yahoo and Facebook climb on board soon. - Peat Bakke
Now we have to wait for sites that currently ask for your Google Account credentials to update to use oAuth... - Voyagerfan5761
Nope, it's not just you. Twitter is DEAD at the moment. I don't even get the whale. I was getting a Network Timeout Error but now it's just a white page. - Chris Rodgers
!["Sorry we're OPEN" sign [Luckyred, Pixdaus]](http://pixdaus.com/pics/1215178892eFGuLbq.jpg "\"Sorry we're OPEN\" sign [Luckyred, Pixdaus]")
