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| This was a hilarious blog:
What to do when gmail is down
1. Immediately flood Twitter with tweets proclaiming “Gmail is down!” and inquiring “Is Gmail down?” Gmail being down is only made funnier by bringing Twitter down with it.
2. Once Twitter is down, the next logical recourse is Facebook. Make sure your status update reads something like “With Gmail down, I’ve lost all sense of social connection. Feel like I’m living in a cave.” Make the rounds to your friends’ profiles and Like their Gmail related statuses.
3. All 3 services down? Good. Now just sit quietly at your desk hitting F5 over and over again in 3 open browser tabs. Rinse, repeat.
4. Find your phone. Yes, it’s come to that, people. Don’t make any voice calls with it, because that’s gauche. SMS only, please. If you simply have to hear the sound of a human voice, that’s what Skype is for.
5. Go outside! There’s nothing left for it. Our cozy technosphere bubble has been burst by this point. Go look for someone on the street ask them what URL shortener they use.
http://mashable.com/2009/09/01/gmail-is-down-3/
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| Time to dust off the soapbox and take it out for a spin again. Hopefully, you've been tracking this blog via subscription (like bloglines or some other rss reader) so that you will see this post.
I bring you good news: googol is sponsoring free wifi at almost every airport in the U.S. from 11/16 to 1/15 as their holiday gift to travelers. Also wifi on Virgin is free during that time too.
http://www.freeholidaywifi.com/
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| Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was such a pivotal event that Chinese people refer to it as simply "six four", and everyone immediately knows what they're referring to. (Much like how in the U.S., you only need to say "nine eleven").
The Chinese government still denies that there was a massacre. They pretend that day never happened. If you search on google.cn for "tiananmen massacre", you'll get a measly 24 results. Compared to 535,500 results on google.com. (Not sure how those 24 results slipped through the censors).
Anyways, this post is to honor the million students and people who protested for democracy and against government corruption, and especially the thousands that were killed. The greatest irony in this is that Tiananmen means "Gate of Heavenly Peace".
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| I may be taking a break from regular blogging to focus on a personal issue--a bedbug crisis at home. Bedbugs may seem like anachronistic these days (like smallpox), but it's making a huge comeback in the U.S. and globally. A big part of it is the lack of awareness, and also the stigma of it (incorrectly associated with unclean conditions). In a way, it's similar to the lack of AIDS awareness in the 80s and even now.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/08/MNGIDP4V7K1.DTL
I'll probably blog more about in the future, but here are must-do tips for travelers to reduce the probability of bringing bedbugs home.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11877871/
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| A 16 year old girl got drafted by a team in an independent Japanese baseball league. She is a knuckleball pitcher, so she doesn't need to throw 90 mph to be effective.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/17/sports/s093246S62.DTL&tsp=1
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