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… And Akismet Survived!

February 19, 2010 at 6:46 AM · 0 comments

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Yesterday, while Javamancy and Javamancy mini were chugging happily away, servicing you, our kind readers, WordPress.com had apparently suffered a multi-hour system outage.
One of the fine services that we use is Akismet, and according to the Akismet blog, it was unaffected by the recent WordPress.com system outage. This is obviously a Good Thing, since many [...]

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Ouchie! WordPress.com Outage

February 19, 2010 at 6:45 AM · 0 comments

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Yesterday, while Javamancy and Javamancy mini were chugging happily away, servicing you, our kind readers, WordPress.com had apparently suffered a multi-hour system outage. According to Matt M., this unexpected downtime impacted about 10.2M (that’s millions!) blogs that are serviced by his WordPress.com service, including their VIP subscribers.
Fortunately, it seems that WordPress.com is up and running [...]

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Wow… you heard the plans from Microsoft [MSFT] that they were going to launch a retail store, a la Apple [AAPL], going as far as to woo Apple Retail Store employees, especially managers, from Apple. And with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has executed their plan with their first outlet in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Management Perspective
While [...]

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… And here ’tis, the seventeenth announced update to Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!).
The majority of the update is, of course, the WordPress 2.8.4 release, which finally cleared our QA testing and CM [...]

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“Say it isn’t so!”
Well, for those of you who have been following this event intently– and who isn’t, if you’re an avid Twitterer, right?– Twitter appears to be the victim of a DoS attack that started around 9:00 AM ET today.
In a cruel twist of fate, in which other companies use Twitter to announce their [...]

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Javamancy Updated XVI

August 4, 2009 at 2:00 PM · 0 comments

in Operations, Services

… And now we have it, the sixteenth announced update to Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!).
From a technical standpoint, this realigns Javamancy with the WordPress 2.8.3 codeline, which does not adversely impact [...]

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Natali del Conte (you remember her, right?) has mentioned in today’s Loaded episode that Verizon [VZ] is preparing to receive Palm [PALM] Pre devices on their network, sometime in 2010.
Of course, this makes sense, since there is not much retooling required for Palm, since both Sprint and Verizon run their cellular networks on CDMA/EvDO type [...]

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Javamancy Updated XV

July 23, 2009 at 5:00 AM · 1 comment

in Operations, Services

Although there was a sort of “mini” upgrade a couple of weeks ago, it certainly was not to the extent of upgrade early this morning for Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!).
Since the release [...]

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The Akismet folks mentioned yesterday via a post on their blog about CAPTCHA conversion rates, as discussed at the SEOmoz blog. While the very informal study done by the author of the SEOmoz blog post had a very small sampling (some statisticians may even say, “Whoa! Statistically insignificant!”), and the sampling methods were arguably questionable, [...]

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Starbucks [SBUX] is at it again: July 21, 2009 is their new Free Pastry Morning*.
Of course, given the lil’ asterisk you see, you’re probably wondering, “What’s the catch?”
And, yes, there is a catch(es):

You should probably print out the invitation from the Web site;
You will need to get to your local Starbucks between opening at 10:30 [...]

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