The Simian Downtime Analyst

This post exists so that there is another link to Kiva.org.
If you didn’t know Kiva lets you loan money to an entrepreneur in a less fortunate country.
Feel free.

So after much whining about the fact that I could not play with the collaboration of Social|Median + Facebook. Well over the course of the past two days I have been reminded why I had stopped using S|M. Not being a fan of the crowded and somewhat tacky interface, it was just painful for me.
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AddThis, the most popular tool for bookmarking on websites, has recently been acquired by the leading widget network Clearspring. Separately the companies were doing quite well, together the two pave the way to create a flawlessly integrated system for sharing content.
As is common with many acquistions, this forces any other similar services to step their [...]

So I’m over a friends hooking their XBox 360 to their wireless network for their son’s birthday and I see that Microsoft left a little note. Outages on Monday for users.
After a wee bit of surfing it seems that the outage will be extended to Zune users.
I might actually have to pry myself away from [...]

Well when Intense Debate and Disqus were lesser known….it was a bit of a coin toss on which one to use. We tried installing one on each blog we had, but for some reason ID would not install properly. Disqus did, and that is why its still on the blog. Both comment systems have great [...]

I got power back on Thursday, The Amber is still without power finally got power late Saturday. Its just too bad her internet connection will be down til next week. There’s a horde of golfers in the area for the Ryders Cup, and most of the street lamps are now burning properly. Honestly nothing else [...]