Hope everyone (at least those in the US) is having a fun and relaxing day. For an interesting country-related read, check out Washington's Farewell Address from 1796. There's a bit of a summary on Wikipedia too if you aren't up to reading the whole thing.
I was pulling up some maps online as we drove along a park road, and noticed some of the map tiles were not loading. In doing some testing, I found the problem.
Yes, that's over a minute and a half for a ping to be returned. The amazing part is most are still making the round trip. I was seeing over 30 seconds with no loss a little earlier too.
Today's FoxTrot reminded me of a remark I made a couple weeks ago at work. Somehow the discussion had gotten onto the gas pumps that needed upgrades to go past $1.99/gal and now can't go above $3.99/gal. I said the simple solution is just to make the long overdue switch to selling gasoline by the liter. Unfortunately even within that limited group there were still people who didn't like the idea. :( Maybe the centi-hogshead would be a more agreeable measure of gasoline for the metric holdouts?
Some of you may remember the recall on the first MacBook Pro batteries. Apple sent replacement, and asked that the initial batteries be returned for proper recycling. However sometimes things get misplaced, and a random battery box is discovered in a storage cabinet a couple years later. Opening the box resulted in a bit of a surprise, and I'm glad I stopped using that one.
. I borrowed the battery to take some photos.
Apparently I broke Animoto. Maybe it has something about the 8 videos with nearly a thousand photos sent their way the past 3 hours. Oops.
Picking a different song seems to have let this one render. Now just to convert to a DVD for a loop at my sister's graduation open house...
