yikes, for the last two days I had the weird feeling as if the earth stood still. It turned out that the DNS stopped working on blogsnow. No DNS no crawl. Of course. So I started to read the same things in the paper that I see on Blogsnow.
Now it’s fixed and things should change soon.
And of course email did not work either during those two days. I could not forward to gmail.
Almost got me into trouble.
Imagine it would have been google doing this and not Alexa. Google and Apple are both brands that, if they do the smallest thing get the biggest attention. Poor old Alexa changes the world, and nobody cares.
Flew with Air France from Boston to Paris. I wasn’t a fan before, but this time the food was actually allright. Maybe 30 Atlantic crossings with KLM created a “oh – please – no – nothing – thanks” reflex whenever somebody asks me “chicken or pasta”.
The A340 had an ok inflight entertainment with a medium choice. My current ranking of inflight entertainment options:
1. Lufhansa LAX / MUC A340
Wifi / Internet with the Boeing Connexion system
It does cost 20US$ but it is worth it. Internet on the plane, nothing can beat that.
2. KLM AMS / NY Boeing 777
Inseat Video with on demand library. Decent Selection of movies. Unfortunately
not letterboxed.
3. Airfrance BOS / CDG A340
Inseat Video. 8 movies Loop. Similar systems I saw in the mid ninetees in business class. Back then the movies were hi8 based.
4. JetBlue (only by heresay)
Cable TV including premium channels. It’s TV, but at least there is HBO from wha t I have heard. Inseat.
5. Song
Cable TV without premium channels. Inseat.
6. Inflight TV on monitors
Most have it. Usually worth avoiding.
7. Inflight domestic
Projection screen, colors and contrast are all over the map. United wanted some money
for headphones. The “Feature presentation” was a very mediocre US family movie.
The worst of the worse.
Whenever I return to Germany my kids get some gifts. My son wanted a Lego Dino Hummer, I picked one up in LA. Interesting that the US Version is featuring a shooting device where the german one has a cage. Kill or capture. That’s the Euro / US choice.
I think “Narrenfreiheit” is one of my most favorite german words.
gmail starts to put custom feed items on top of my email box.
Nice and not nice. The 5 different ones that I saw fly by
were tailored pretty close to what I care about. Of course:
gmail knows about me. I prefer not to realize that. And
I would like to do things at my pace, pick up information
instead of having it pushed my way.
good thing you can turn those things off …
update 12/9:
“Note: Clips of your favorite RSS and Atom feeds are displayed randomly, and aren’t targeted to the contents of your mail.”
so it say in the Webclips answer part of google.
File servers. No big deal. I am dealing with kind of thing since more than ten years. And it works.
We tried OS X Server 10.2.8 a while back, and it was bad. Now I have to deal with it again: OS X 10.4.3
and it still is junk. It is broken. Things don’t work as they should. Apples way of doing things is
incompatible with everything. It is such a waste of time. If they add a guy then they should leave
the way things are done underneath as everybody would expect them. XServers get bought by people
for their shiny facade. Which is all ok for me. Just that the inner workings of it are simply rotten.
The non server version of OS X is much more consistent with having all features in the system preferences
sharing.
it’s all gory details. I don’t even want to go into it. It was broken with 10.2.8. With 10.4.3 it is still broken.
Fileservers are not THAT important that you want to waste your entire worklife administrating them.
And with Linux (or even SGI for that matter) you don’t have to. You learn the meaning of a few commands and
are done with it.
It really is bulshit. If you consider to get a server, don’t get an Apple one. They are too expensive and work not in a way that would make any sense …
If you should ever stay in Boston and don’t need the generic upper class marble stuff. Or don’t want it, or can’t afford then I can wholeheartly recommend the
Newburry Guest House
261 Newburry
800 437 7668
Very nice rooms, decent atmosphere.
I like it allot.