Pilar (my wife) had a mole removed from her left foot on Thursday and so she now has five stitches in her foot and was advised to rest and keep it elevated. No problem, you’d imagine - despite the boisterous three year old and the vocal six week old! Tom can help out.
Well, I did. Except that at 4am on Saturday morning, in the darkness, while rushing to get a bottle for the baby, I stubbed my foot on the end of the bed fracturing one of my toes!
Now both of us are hobbling around the place feeling sorry for ourselves. Thank God our local supermarket does deliveries (driving was not an option!).
I have written about the site Share Your OPML previously. I think it is a great site however, I can’t remember my password for my Share Your OPML account!
I have checked my email, it wasn’t emailed to me when I set up the account. There is no link on the site to have the password emailed to you. It isn’t covered in the FAQ. There are no contact details for support - what now?
Anyone any ideas?
(It is a pity Share Your OPML doesn’t use some form of federated ID system for login - this would make it far easier in the long term to manage identity over many sites).
A mail from Fergal Byrne on a mailing list I’m on this morning claimed that Hosting365 (Ireland’s largest hosting company) had “gone black”. It went on to say:
I’m getting alerts from my server monitors and cannot raise anything on hosting365’s network (where our servers are). Calling any of there numbers results in a tone which is neither ringing nor busy but sounds ominously like ‘no connection’
I checked the hosting365 site when I read the mail and it was back up so I can’t confirm it was offline - anyone?
If hosting365 and all their sites (and client’s sites) were offline it raises some serious questions:
- How can an entire hosting company go offline - don’t they have redundancy built in to all their systems so that they can survive power cuts, network outages etc.? Surely you host with a hosting company precisely because they never go dark.
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How many Hosting365-hosted ecommerce sites were affected? How much revenue did they lose? And do their SLA’s with Hosting365 mean they will be compensated or does the SLA allow Hosting365 to say “tough”?
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If you are hosting a site, how do you decide which hoster to go with? You would have thought that the largest hoster in Ireland would be a safe bet, no?
I tried to call Ed Byrne (Hosting365’s Marketing Director) on his mobile to get a comment but it rang out. Ed, you want to leave a comment here?
[Edited to add the following disclosure] - I do a little hosting myself (11 sites), reselling server space for my own hoster. Most of the hosting I do is for friends and very few of the sites I host have received any bill for the service.
I have been using Flock since it was first released last year and I have been impressed at its progress (if a little frustrated at it’s rate of progress!).
I like the seamless implementation of social media like Del.icio.us and Flickr into Flock. In fact, it was Flock which got me into using Del.icio.us. Flock was even my default browser for a while (at any one time I have Flock, Safari, Firefox and Camino running simultaneously). I stopped using Flock as my default browser however, because of its patchy support for the minimum set of extensions I want to use (SessionSaver, FlashBlock and AdBlock).
The latest version of Flock launched last week and I thought I’d give it a whirl. I heard the developers discussing the photo uploader on the TalkCrunch podcast and it sounded interesting so I have been playing with that particularly (see screenshot below).
The Flock photo uploader is fantastic! There’s no other word for it. It is simplicity itself - drag an image to the photo topbar and the uploader opens ready to upload the image.
I was previously using a plugin for iPhoto to upload my images to my Flickr account but it was very clunky. It frequently hung in the middle of image uploading and there was no way to associate photos with a Flickr set. That had to be done manually after uploading. This is all a thing of the past thanks to the Flock uploader.
As well as uploading to Flickr the Flock uploader allows you to upload to PhotoBucket. Now if only they’d implement uploading to Zooomr, I’d be able to upload to my Zoomr account from within Flock as well!
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