Stressed

Last night I was a bit stressed. It is a whole gammut of things, some personal and some professional. Some of it is probably lack of sleep too.

I had a good talk to my father last night. My grandmother varies with the day. I finaly found out what she had the operation for. It was to remove some blood on the brain. And she seems to be variable with her cognitive abilities depending on the day. The operation aparently did go very well.

Blogger

What I have found is that Blogger is often quite slow. I know it has not updated the number of blog entries that I have in something like two or three weeks. It has always been a bit slow updating them, but this is far worse than anything I have seen before.

I suspect that as Blogging takes off their servers are finding it hard to keep up. That is what happens when you get exponential growth – which is what Bogging has been seeing. Many businesses see this growth pattern too. Dealing with it can be difficult.

CDMA

I tried accessing the Web from a CDMA 1x card today, and the results were less than impressive. In fact I found the results quite poor. Bringing up WWW pages was especially problematic, probably because of the number of connections that need to be made to show a page. I was expecting a lot better. In fairness to Telstra we were probably in a poor location but the system did not work well. I was really disapointed. I was expecting significantly more than what I got. I am guessing that the cell site we were connected to had high loading from other 1x customers leading to problems.

Music:

David Bowie – “Ziggy Stardust” on Random Play. Oxygene Part 10 by Jean-Michel Jarre.

Photo of the Day

This is a really cool photo… Taken during the olympics. I believe it was the closing ceremony. On the back of the dish is a video screen, and on the screen is a video image coming down from a helicopter of an aerial view of the stadium. This dish had a person to point it at the helicopter when the person moved.