Michele Neylon :: Pensieri

After an extended period of downtime, while it was moved onto the Google infrastructure, Jaiku is back online.

Ciaran was following the migration's progress over on Jaiku Invites.

They seem to have opened up the invitations, presumably because they're on a much bigger platform than before and can manage the load, but whether the service will "take off" or not is hard to say.

Twitter, even if it has a horrible UI, is still a lot more popular.

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Apple's marketing team have always like to upsell the virtues of their products, which is only to be expected. What may have come as a surprise to them was when one of their adverts was banned by the UK advertising watchdog for making misleading claims.

Full story on the Guardian site

IrishBlogs.info is currently offline, as it has developed a rather annoying bug ie. the main page won't load and just gives me an unhelpful MySQL error.

Hopefully I'll be able to get it up and running again soon, but I thought it best to take it offline for the moment...

Please don't ask me when it will be back online, as I honestly don't know. The best answer I can give you is a rather vague "as soon as I can fix it"

Its sister site, IrishBlogs.com, is still online, though it obviously doesn't do the same thing.

I took delivery of my Tag Heuer watch earlier today.

Here's a photo:

After posting about my issues with Adsense < > Feedburner issues I finally found the Google group for Feedburner.

While the old Feedburner forums used to be active and Feedburner staff used to regularly post replies to people's queries the opposite seems to be the case now.

While there are plenty of people posting about their issues there seems to be a deathly silence from the Google / Feedburner side of the house.

I've been critical of Google's total lack of customer service in the past, but in that instance I was addressing a free service.

Feedburner does have a revenue stream for Google. I've no idea of course how big that revenue stream is in the grand scheme of things, but can any company afford to totally ignore their clients in this manner?

If they didn't want to provide any avenues for customer support it would be one thing, but what is the point of providing an avenue of support if you have no intention of actually engaging with the users?

I've had a feedburner account for a long time. I've also had an adsense account since shortly after Google launched it.

When Google finally announced that RSS ads were going to be available to Feedburner users I was quite excited. If nothing else I wanted to try it out. If it didn't work out as well as I'd have liked I could easily drop the ads.

Unfortunately things weren't quite that simple.

My Adsense account is a Google Account, whereas my existing Feedburner account isn't, so I basically had to transfer or merge stuff together to get it working.

Now I may have made a mistake when I added a completely new feed into Adsense... I'm not 100% sure.

In any case I've now ended up with the rather annoying situation of having two feedburner accounts and no way of transferring feeds between them, as the "key" is coming back as invalid, while the confirmation email contains a link to the wrong place. Basically I cannot log in to Feedburner via the main page for my new account.

Kind of frustrating!

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Since I live in Ireland I'm used to waiting several days (or longer) for my Amazon orders.

It's not an issue.

Yesterday morning I ordered a few DVDs, but since some of them weren't due out for another week or so I wasn't expecting to receive anything immediately.

So I nearly fell of my chair when I took delivery of a DVD boxset this morning. They'd managed to get it to me in approximately 24 hours! And no, I hadn't opted for express delivery or anything like that - I'd chosen the normal options with a total postage cost of £2.99.

Here's the part of the email:

Delivery estimate: 29 Aug 2008 - 4 Sep 2008
Dispatch estimate for these items: 26 Aug 2008

Wow!

I am truly impressed!

I really should not be allowed operate electronic equipment at the weekend!

I discovered a short time ago that I had managed to remove my RSS feed entirely!

Now that takes some doing.

I'm almost impressed with myself...

It's back again now, but I really do need to put aside some time to work out what I've managed to accidentally nuke.

On a side note, I have to say I am impressed with the widgets in MT. They're finally making sense to me, so I won't be editing the main templates as much moving forward - widgets are the way to go!

I've made a minor change to my comment policy.

As of today comments will remain open on posts for 300 days.

It was previously set at 180 days.

According to the media reports Carlow is flooded.

Odd that.

I live in Carlow!

Yes  - part of the town is flooded, but only a small part. Most of the town is unaffected.