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Last update: 22/06/2008; 12:10:38 PM. September 2005 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30   Aug   Oct Home Stories Brian Sullivan's Flickr Space Meeting by Wire Courses by Wire ELearning Development Weblog Scobleizer Scripting News Zope Plone Brian Sullivan Auto Racing Creative Problem Solving E-Learning Jazz NetMeeting Zope/Plone Recent Posts Borden Air Show and RCMP Musical Ride  6/22/08 Happy 60th  6/16/08 Does Twitter have founderitis?  5/20/08 Toronto Zoo  5/19/08 Twitter continues on its trip to down the toilet bowl  5/19/08 Regular Twitter outage  5/15/08 Twitter forked again  5/14/08 Google maps test  5/9/08 Twitter $$$ continued  5/9/08 End game for Skype - $0 revenue? What about Twitter?  4/28/08 Twitter is saved!  4/23/08 Tweetless  4/21/08 Robert Scoble and Twitter  4/14/08 Twitter vs. Pownce  3/5/08 Fragile DNS  2/25/08 Value of Video Blogging  2/13/08 Why do Twitter "upgrades" always seem like "downgrades"  1/31/08 Buffalo State vs. Geneseo  1/28/08 Facebook picture security/privacy breach  1/17/08 Big Lens  1/12/08 Bill Wadman  1/7/08 Hotmail down?  12/29/07 ROM  12/27/07 Merry Christmas  12/23/07 Loren Feldman - knob extraordinaire?  12/19/07 Twitter $$$  12/15/07 Lijit Search		September 18, 2005   A Microsoft & Google bidding war ? Hot on the rumours of MSN/Microsoft buying AOL comes a new rumour that Google will make a bid for AOL. Certainly puts in perspective the recent Google share issue that raised $4.2 billion. That amount would make a sizable down payment in an AOL purchase (recent estimates put its value at less than 10 to 20 billion) and might be needed to counteract the large amount of cash that Microsoft would bring to the table. Who could have imagined that Microsoft and Google would be scrapping over an internet low life such as AOL? 3:47:55 PM        comment []    Passport sucks This is starting to really get to me! Since Friday I have been experiencing a really bizarre problem. None of the computers on my home network are able to access any sites that require Passport authentication -- and the number (at least for me) is large -- including Msn Messenger not being able to login --- Hotmail, My Msn, MSDN, Microsoft Beta sites, the MVP site and MSN Spaces. All those sites are available when I use a computer on another network to login so the problem is not with the particular account. It seems that all accounts from machines on my home network have the same problem. Apparently others using the same ISP as me (Rogers Cable) have no similar problems so it is not an ISP wide problem. I haven't checked with my neighbours yet that are on Rogers as well to see if they are experiencing similar problems. All I can guess is that there is some sort of routing table error or corruption upstream from me that is sending my passport.com intended packets into the bit bucket. I am not sure what to do now. I guess I will have to gather more evidence before I can call Rogers. This really sucks! ARGGH! 9:50:53 AM        comment []    © Copyright 2008 Brian Sullivan.