Month: February 2005

  • Googles mapping system

    I’ve been futzing on Google trying to get through my Friday doing as little as possible so I can get my last bit of relaxing in before the weekend, when I ran across maps.google.com. I haven’t seen/heard much about it, but I have been under a rock latley so keep that in mind. It’s a…

  • Arena

    In the arena of sites I’ve seen recently, this one is quite nice.

  • YouSendIt

    YouSendIt is a free web based file transfer tool for sending files up to 1GB in size to other people. I ran across a similar service last year. This could be the same one. I’m not sure.

  • The myth of 99.9% uptime guarantees

    I wish to dispel a myth that is rapidly spreading and must admit that I didn’t verify the facts myself the first few times I heard it. The myth of 99.9% uptime. People are saying that the 0.1% represents 8 whole days of downtime a year. That is not true at all! The truth is:…