Sooner or later, every site or application will fail. However the consequences depend not only on how the failure is managed but also on how it is communicated. Recently the web hosting company Media Temple and even Google have well illustrated how hard it is for modern connected organizations to re...

Just in case you didn’t know…. _ Official Google Blog: Current Gmail outage If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably aware by now that we’re having some problems. Shortly after 10 9:30am GMT our monitoring systems alerted us that Gmail consumer and busines...

A little less than one month ago, Google introduced an experimental version of Gmail that could work without an Internet connection, and we ran the headline "Gmail Goes Offline (In A Good Way)" as a result.  This morning, minus the part in parentheses, the same title could apply. read...

Gmail is down, as you can see by a) trying it out yourself or b) listening to the tortured cries on Twitter. It’s funny and somewhat ironic to see people turning to Twitter when one of Google’s services is down: usually, it’s the other way around. Trying to open Gmail will currentl...

I'm good, I figure everybody is busy as hell running around. It's actually my friend here that's done all the legwork - I just pass it on. I've actually gotten a couple of responses by email....

Meltdown, I know you must be frustrated for putting in all that hard work on this for the techs and nothing MELT.Sometimes you put alot of work to try to help and you get nothing in return for all your efforts. I know how you feel, Just a friendly r......

Well a bunch are still waiting to hear about the visa's I heard that sucks. There is only 7 day's till carnival.If you don't get it till next week because of the holiday that will suck.It is going to be hell getting tickets.It's a shame most won't ......

Like I said before portuguese is a very hard language to learn and spanish isn't nothing like it.Some of the words are the same but the pronunciation isn't even close.I'm sure we will have alot of deer in the head lights looks but we will get through......

Yesterday we reported a major data outage plaguing BlackBerry users across the country and while certain regions seem to be back in action today, many BlackBerry users are still left wondering when their service might be restored. Issues in the southern region reportedly resulted from the severing o...

One more hard learned lesson - bring your own aloe stuff. They don't seem to have any here. Also, don't even think of going near the beach without sunscreen. Yesterday I was off and took the bus down to a local beach. The sunscreen was helpfully locate......