OPML Application Fully Back Online!
My opml viewing application at http://www.fuzzygroup.com/opml/ is now fully back online. I had partially disabled it because of the hosting issues recently. Now I was able to fully test those changes that are much smarter about network I/O and it's done. Once again, if you are a PHP geek, look into Snoopy. It's simple, it's fast and you don't have to rebuild Curl for it. It even is error aware so that you can catch 404s versus 301s and so on. Thanks for your patience.
Thinking About Outages
The more I think about the recent outages in UserLand, the less I mind them. Sure it's frustrating and perhaps it shouldn't happen but it does. Mistakes happen. Never forget that technology is implemented by people and people are imperfect. The way that I look at it from a customer's perspective is that I vote with my dollars. When I purchased Radio I was making a conscious choice to support Radio and UserLand. If I was willing to make that choice a month ago when I barely knew the product then why am I bothered by what are transitory glitches? Bear in mind that none of us (or damn few) lost any content and that's what counts to me.
Quite honestly this stuff happens so often to us that we don't even make a big deal of it anymore. Do you complain to Sprint when you have a PCS error? For example, EVERY SINGLE TIME I cross the Boston to Cambridge bridge between MIT and Boston (the Mass ave) my call is dropped. I just shrug and move on. So do most people. We tend to notice outages mostly when they are prolonged. Dave owned up to it and did the right thing. Think about it: If we were using Radio by Microsoft and blogging to MSN, it would go down for days and they wouldn't admit it well or gracefully.
Spending money is a choice and I choose that my
dollars go to the little guy as much as I can.
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