What's New ??: February 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

GMAIL -- "GFAIL"

Google caused a lot of trouble to its Gmail users.. The Story goes this way..

"The Gmail outage that affected many consumers and Google Apps users worldwide is now over. Users should find that they're able to access their email now without any further problems," said Acacio Cruz, Gmail site reliability manager, in a blog posting.

"The outage itself lasted approximately two and a half hours from 0930 GMT. We know that for many of you this disrupted your working day. We're really sorry about this. Our engineers are still investigating the root cause of the problem," Cruz said.

Google did not say how many clients were affected by the incident, but reports of trouble flooded the internet from all over the world.

Google stressed that problems with Gmail were very rare, but the incident was seen as a major embarrassment for the company, which is trying to persuade computer users to store more of their data online.

Oscar Winners of 81st Annual Academy Awards 2009

The winners for the Oscar 2009 have been announced, and, not too much to my surprise, I have seen hardly any of these films so far. I have been dying to see Slumdog Millionaire, and surprisingly, it is actually in my town now! I’m going to try to sneak out of work and see it as soon as possible.

That being said, there weren’t too many surprises with this year’sawards. Slumdog Millionaire winning just about everything was expected, but I find it fascinating for all of the awards it won, it received no acting nominations. Did the script just magically appear on screen without anyone acting it?

- Congratulation to Kate Winslet for finally winning on her sixth outing. She is a great actress and has been deserving for some time of winning.

- Heath Ledger put in an amazing performance in The Dark Knight, but I wonder how much of his win was his passing away and how much was truly the role. I felt he was deserving, but you will alway shave to wonder.

- Hugh Jackman did a good job hosting, although the format was way different than it has been in the past. And yay for him getting to sing.