Gmail Outage Shows that the Cloud is Finite

September 2, 2009

Google has posted a semi-technical explanation of the 1 September 2009 Gmail outage on the Gmail blog. To sum it up, Google took some of the Gmail servers down for maintenance. Other servers that were supposed to handle the load became overloaded and shifted the load to other servers that couldn’t handle the load and [...]

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A Great Watch and Calculator Battery Cross Reference

August 22, 2009

Here is a great web site for finding replacement watch and calculator batteries.

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25 Years of PowerPoint

August 19, 2009

The BBC celebrates 25 years of PowerPoint slide decks with a PowerPoint slide deck. The article also has some good tips for how to make better presentations and avoid bullet burnout. PowerPoint currently has 95 % of the presentation software market, according to the article. I’ve been using PowerPoint for years now, but in the [...]

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Freecycle your old, usable computer

May 21, 2009

Do you have an old, usable computer at home that is just gathering dust? Have you investigated selling it on eBay and found out that you would have to pay someone to take it off your hands? Chances are, there is someone on Freecycle.org willing to show up at your door and take it off [...]

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Who are those other kids in “A Charlie Brown Christmas”?

December 23, 2008

Every Christmas for decades I have watched “A Charlie Brown Christmas“.  I always got a kick out of seeing the two twins dance.  I knew the names of most of the characters in the special – Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, etc., but I had no idea what the names of the twins were. 

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Gmail adds Forgotton Attachment Feature

September 15, 2008

How many times have you hit the email send button, only to realize seconds later that you forgot to attach an important file to the message?  I’ve done it too many times to count.  One of the interns on the Gmail team has come up with a feature that automatically detects if you have mentioned [...]

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