Category Archives: Computers and Internet

Twitter Is Down…

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Glenn Berry

After much resistance, I finally opened an account on Twitter last night (which is GlennAlanBerry). Now, it is down this morning, which is not that unusual for them…

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Online Sales of Rockies World Series Tickets Round Two

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Gordon Weakliem posted about the spectacular failure of the online ticket sales for Rockies World Series tickets yesterday. The Rockies and their infrastructure vendor, Paciolan claimed in news reports yesterday that their system crashed due to a "malicious external attack", … Continue reading →

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Bad Day for Paciolan

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Glenn Berry

As I predicted, the online ticket sales for the home games for the Colorado Rockies in the World Series did not go well. They were suspended after only a few hundred tickets were sold. The company that handles the Rockies … Continue reading →

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Will the Colorado Rockies Web Server Survive?

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Glenn Berry

In just a few minutes, the web infrastructure of the Colorado Rockies is going to get slammed, when World Series tickets go on sale at 10:00AM, Mountain Time. I am very curious as to how they will hold up. Right … Continue reading →

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China Blocking RSS Feeds

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Both Boing Boing and TechCrunch have stories up this morning about how the mainland Chinese government is now attempting to block all RSS feeds.  This seems like a very short-sighted effort on the part of the Chinese Government. Knowledge is … Continue reading →

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Webb Alert

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Morgan Webb (from the G4 Network) has a new video blog that covers tech news. She is very easy on the eyes, but more importantly she seems to really know her stuff.  It sort of reminds me of the old … Continue reading →

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Windows Live Writer Beta2 Released

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has finally released Beta2 of Windows Live Writer. You can get it here.

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Rave Reviews for Microsoft Silverlight

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Lots of favorable buzz about Silverlight from people like Michael Arrington, Steve Gillmor, and Robert Scoble.

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Microsoft Silverlight Details

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft demo’ed and gave further details about Silverlight at Mix07 today. TechCrunch has a good summary here. Microsoft has a getting started page that went live today.

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Windows Server 2007 ?

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Glenn Berry

ComputerWorld has an article citing an MSDN whitepaper and listings on Amazon for several yet to be published books that indicate that Windows Longhorn will be called Windows Server 2007 when it is released, presumably late this year.

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