Grrrr... Blogger Sucks

Blogger fried up my other blog.

They claim they're having a hardware-error-that-fu***d-up-a-percentage-of-Blog*Spot-users-
and-will-make-them-run-into-intermittent-trouble-when-trying-to-access-their-damn-blogs issue, that causes a nasty 404 Page Not Found to show up when I try to visit my blog.

Supposedly the problem occurred before 13:30 PST (05/24/2005), and they promised they'd have it corrected 2 hours later. Well, it's 20:00 PST, which means 4 and a half hours over their 2 hours estimate, and IT'S STILL DOWN!!!!

It's the first time something like this happens to me, but it's the second time in two consecutive months it happens to the blogger-sphere.

Now I started to seriously think about moving my blogs to a paid provider, given Blogger & Google are just like any other networks out there: they fail, and they fail hard. The only advantage on a paid provider is that when they fail, I can always call them para cagarme en sus madres.

I was defender to the death of Google, but all this just made me change my mind.

Goddamn it.... Blogger Sucks

UPDATE: At some point after 12 AM EST (21:00 PST) everything went back to normal, although we don't know for how long :-( ...but I still reiterate it, Blogger sucks!.

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The hurricane season is here, again!

The 2005 Hurricane season has just begun.

Here in South Florida we had a quite busy 2004 season, with 3 major hurricanes landing barely 100 miles from us, namely Charley, Frances and Jeanne; and some others that just skimmed our coasts.

It's again that time of the year when we start worrying about batteries and flashlights, canned food, and the amount of gallons of water that we need to keep stored. It's the time when we also check our windows shutters from having all their screws and bolts and when we have to fight bitterly at the Home Depot for getting enough plywood planks.

South Florida's people empirically predicts how active the next season will be by the amount of rain that falls on May. Last year's month of May was quite dry, with very few showers, and we all know what happened later. Unfortunately this year's May has also been very dry, with only one or two showers up to now, and the same empiric meteorologists are predicting another hectic hurricane season.

In that way, Miami-Dade county decided to exempt its residents to pay sales taxes on certain hurricane supplies from Jun 1st to Jun 12th, including batteries, power generators, coolers and some others. Anyway, I'll make use of this tax exemption for buying my supplies.

By the way, here comes the first storm of this season: Adrian

Good luck fellow Floridians

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Want your kid to be a slugger?. Pitch faster

I will keep this in mind when I start playing Baseball with my little son.

'When you throw something slowly to a child, you think you're doing them a favour by trying to be helpful,' said Terri Lewis, professor of psychology at McMaster University. 'Slow balls actually appear stationary to a child.'

Link (Via Lifehacker)

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Salutation

Last sunday 05/01 I went to Fort Lauderdale to watch the 2005 Air&Sea Show.

The show was simply OK, without anything extraordinary. The only thing amazed me was this AA jetliner doing flyovers at low altitude and performing some not commonly seen maneuvers for a plane of this kind.



This is also my first attempt of using Flickr, which by the way I found...uhmm, let's say... futile.
Perhaps I still don't understand its concept, but it seemed to me it's more hype than anything.

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Five times Five

This happens once in a life time (well, actually twice but the same day).

Just for the fun of it, posted on 05/05/05 05:05 PM.

Happy Corona Beer Day... I mean... Happy Cinco de Mayo

Cheers

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