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  • SalesForce.Com Outages

    Yes, it's all over the web, salesforce.com went down again. This isn't the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last and it is definately frustrating a hell of a lot of people whose businesses depend on salesforce being up (including myself).

    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6033540.html

    I'm not sure what is worse, the fact that it was down all day, or the fact that they claim that it being down all day is a minor outage. I'd really hate to see what a major outage is.

  • Treo 700w, Windows Mobile 5.0, and Microsoft's Stupidity

    Ok, so one of the reasons I got this Treo 700w is so that I can sync my windows media protected music that I paid for to my phone and plug some headphones into it, rather than carrying yet another device around with me every time I go to the gym. Sounds simple enough. And it looked like it was working fine when I finally got around to installing ActiveSync 4.1, upgrading my USB drivers, etc. and clicked the button in Windows Media player to sync some music... that is, of course, until it got to file #26. Apparently, there is some idiotic bug that won't let a Windows Mobile 5 device carry more than 25 songs:

  • Flash 8 File Format Specs

    Well, like usual Macromedia (er.... Adobe)  is really lagging on getting the specs out. From what I understand, Macromedia was really disorganized in regards to the SWF spec even internally, so it shouldn't be suprising that it takes forever to get this stuff out to everyone else. In the mean time, go visit:

  • Gates on Google

    ...in a phone interview preceding his keynote, Gates downplayed a Google threat.

  • GotoMyPC 5.0

    GotoMyPC 5.0 just released, the coolest new feature is DUAL MONITOR support (had a feeling this was coming since GotoMeeting got it a couple months back). Finally I won't have to disable that second video card when working remote.