Thoughts & Experiences from the Mile High City
Google has announced on their blog that they are now rolling out IMAP for GMAIL. I am just going to say one-thing, YEAH!
I enjoy using the web application, but if I can sync my email and manage it locally on a device and it will sync back with the online version, I am all for that.
POP was good in its time, but IMAP is so much better.
Neumann Homes filing for bankruptcy
Well it is official. Neumann Homes has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They have closed all their production, sales, and customer service offices. They got hit hard by the housing slump and it looks like some acquisitions that they shouldn’t have made.
According to a story in the Denver Post, Plummeting sales level builder, Neumann had planned on selling over 1,000 homes and were only able to sell 81 of them.
We have some unfinished homes in our neighborhood (Harmony Park) and they were to be auctioned off on October 3. But it is not known how that sell went. It would nice to see them finished, but I don’t think that will happen soon with this filing.
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft Inks Deal with Facebook, Microsoft has agreed to invest $240 million in Facebook that values Facebook at $15 billion.
To get the investment, Microsoft out competed Google to make the investment in Facebook.
Microsoft will also begin running the sites international advertising. Microsoft had previously been running the advertising on the U.S. site.
This is going to be interesting to see what happens. The online battle over advertising is heating up. Microsoft is trying, but I think it is going to be tough road to climb against Google.
Well I have been trying for over two hours and I am lost in an endless loop and no World Series tickets. This system is not working.
I would like to know who is getting tickets. I never get to the server. People are getting tickets and then trying again and getting tickets again. Why can’t I connect to the server?
It keeps trying after 120 seconds and then tries again. I never get to the server. I feel like I have wasted my time and just extremely upset with MLB and whatever, so-called ticket company is doing this sale.
I should have been able to connect to the server once in two hours. According to the Rocky Mountain News, about 55,000 tickets were sold by 2 pm.
Well according to a press conference the Rockies just had, the World Series tickets are selling, just slowly.
It would be interesting to hear of people who are actually getting tickets, because I am not seeing anyone who has actually got tickets say they have tickets.
Well, I will keep checking and let me know what you are experiencing during this mad and slow dash to find World Series Tickets.
Well round 2 is underway and it is not going much better. In looking at comments on the Denver Post website, people are unable to get through. Those that do get through, kicked when they are trying to purchase tickets.
It is a system that is totally inept and failing. The people that are to blame for this is Major League Baseball. They are the ones who took this sale over from the Rockies and are using a system that does not work.
Heads should roll at MLB and Paciolan Inc.
I was in favor of trying to do online only for tickets. Now I am thinking that this should have been done in a different matter. I keep getting the endless countdown loop and every so often it freezes. It is worthless for me to keep trying and I am not holding out hope that I will get tickets.
EPIC (Evolving Personalised Information Construct) is an interesting video looking at the future of media. I am not sure when it was first developed, but I think that it has been several years.
There are two versions. One is set in 2014 and the updated version is set in 2015.
It is amazing how close some of the predictions have and are coming true. The merging of media, search, and data; the fight over copyright; and how we will be getting our news and information in the future. Continue reading “EPIC, Evolving Personalised Information Construct”
9NEWS – Rockies: Attack caused system outage
A malicious cyber attack is what caused the server outage today when I was trying to purchase World Series Tickets. It was a crazy day trying to get those.
After all the frustrations I had today and getting all the facts, I still think that selling them online today is the way to go. I think that MLB and the company that runs the ticket sells, Paciolan Inc., needs to be prepared for another attack.
Otherwise, I think that there will be a lot more frustration and less forgiveness the second time around.
Well the server has stopped responding and I am unable to get in and try and get World Series Tickets. Major League Baseball and the Colorado Rockies have sure screwed this one up.
Despite assurances that they wouldn’t have any problems, they are having major problems and the servers have crashed. Not Good!
9NEWS – Top News Article – World Series ticket sales suspended
I have been trying to login for a while and couldn’t get in. The servers were getting slammed, but they should have expected this. I am hoping to get another shot when they come back online.
I love the Rockies and would love to see them in person. But the problems that they are having were expected and should have been handled. This is not an excuse. I am glad that only a few hundred have been sold and I will still have a chance.
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