It happened to me. “Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available within a few hours.” The “suspension” started early in the morning, and didn’t go back to normal until morning the next day. I wouldn’t consider myself Facebook-crazy, but I had something to do, and I was upset about the denial of service. Yes, I checked it was just my account (and perhaps others whom I don’t know about), not some major outage that…
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Android Outnumbers iPhone
I was running a network workshop yesterday. During the break, I spotted someone with a HTC Desire phone. So, I thought to conduct an impromptu poll of Android and iPhone users. There were, surprisingly, 3 HTC Desire users, as well as 2 HTC Magics, and 1 Nexus One (me). Even more surprisingly, there was just 1 lone iPhone user. So it seems, Android outnumbered iPhone by a 6:1 ratio. How interesting. Notice, also, that all the Android phones where made…
Work-Life Balance
Sometimes, I think “work-life balance” is just an excuse for some people who want to work less. Push away their work. Shirk responsibility. I’m not against the idea of needing some balance, in principle. But one must also realize that every person is a valuable resource in an organization, and they need to do their fair part. It’s not a question of working “over time”. I recently spoke to some people who talked about how they come on the dot,…