Gmail: Temporary Error 502
August 11, 2008
Update: Were any of you using Google Labs for Gmail? If so, please leave a comment! I’m trying to get to the bottom of this myself. Thanks!
Update #2: Thanks to Flo, we have a link that should get you in for now: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html. Also, according to Google Help, you may want to try to disable Google Labs if you have it enabled.
Has anyone out there seen this before? I’ve been seeing this more and more often lately…
Chihuly
August 11, 2008
Chihuly, originally uploaded by William WM.
By the way, I’ve changed back to licensing my photos under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic license, which means that you can share and “remix” this photo, as long as you maintain proper attribution to me, and don’t use it for commercial purposes.
Convert < > to < >
August 11, 2008
Can’t wait to see how WordPress tries to format that URL. 
Anyway, there’s a great site hosted at Stanford that will convert your HTML code into its character literal equivalents for posting within a webpage / blog post so that it is visible as code instead of being interpreted into formatting.
Quite nice for making Flickr invite/comment code snippets, btw. 
Update: Here’s the URL, by the way: http://www.stanford.edu/~bsuter/js/convert.html
Silverlight rollout via 2008 Olympics
August 11, 2008
I’d say that if you’re planning to make a rollout of a Flash competitor like Silverlight, there’s no better place to do it than an event as popular as the Olympics…as long as it’s all working correctly.
How would you like to be handed this IT project: create a website that will present 2,200 hours of live, interactive video, plus integrated broadcast coverage. The site will have huge spikes of traffic, and operate under worldwide scrutiny, so it has to be designed for performance. It has to be done in the next 150 days; no schedule extensions are possible. And it must deliver a brilliant user experience.
That’s the job in front of the developers for the Summer Olympics website, which also will offer expert commentary and sports biographies and permit users to share links to favorite event videos. During the MIX 08 keynote address on Wednesday, Perkins Miller, senior vice president of digital media for NBC Sports & Olympics, said that this was “the most ambitious online project.”
During the Olympics, the site (demonstrated in prototype form during the keynote) will deliver video interactively for 17 days. The coverage of Olympics events-built using Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, will let site visitors do much more than start, pause, and stop a video. Users can rewind the video and click on replay to see a particularly astonishing bit of gymnastics. If a user sets up watch lists, an alert can pop up over the current video to remind the user that another event is starting.
(via PC World - Silverlight Helps Bring Streaming Video to Olympics Web Site)
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