March 2010

YouTube Back in Service

March 25, 2010 at 8:45 AM

in Services

As of a few minutes ago, it appears that YouTube [GOOG] has returned from the depths of unavailability to once again provide its video content to the masses. While it may be a bit too soon to tell if this is a momentary blast of access, as part of a longer period of intermittent system [...]

YouTube Still Unavailable

March 25, 2010 at 8:23 AM · 2 comments

in Services

People who have been looking forward to browsing the various YouTube [GOOG] videos today have been confronted with the ominous “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” message, which often accompanies a Web service outage or access blockage. This condition has been present for the past several hours, and there is thus far no further information about the severe [...]

Yes, today is St. Patrick’s Day. It is also the day that, in a humorous bent, many people refer to each other as Irish-Americans in the U.S., as an inclusive way to harmonize with other festivity-goers for the holiday. For me, however, it holds a deeper significance, since it reminds me of why I participate [...]

St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2010 at 10:22 AM

in Meanderings

Happy St. Patrick’s Day (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)! March 17 is the observance of this Irish holiday, which has transformed to a worldwide secular marketing and merchandising day but which originally began as a Catholic holiday commemorating the life and death of Saint Patrick, one of the patron saints of Ireland. Although Saint Patrick was not Irish [...]

As many of you have probably seen, McDonald’s [MCD] has run a new series of commercials detailing the extension of their wildly successful 99¢ Filet-o-Fish promotion until March 28, 2010. This is in the midst of several other recent McDonald’s initiatives touting their refreshed Morning Dollar Menu. Kudos to McDonald’s for catering to their audience. [...]

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Wow! Several McDonald’s [MCD] outlets have extended the fantabulous 99¢ Filet-o-Fish promotion, at least until the franchise management has had enough of it, or until supplies run out. Quite a surprise, but perhaps a minor one: McDonald’s recently announced decent profits, based upon their feedback and sales on their new $1 Breakfast Menu, which builds [...]

There was a recent update provided for the 99¢ Filet-o-Fish promotion at McDonald’s [MCD]. The last day for the promotion has been moved earlier to March 7, 2010.