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As you may know, I have been tracking the date and time of IMAP service brownouts associated with my Oberlin gmail[BETA] account for the past several weeks. Although I did this primarily for fun and secondarily for analysis, someone at Google actually noticed the entries and investigated the situation!

After reading and responding to the initial comment, I received the following email:

 Hi Pete,

I looked into this. The root cause turns out to be a problem we’re familiar with, that other people are experiencing too. It’s very high on our fix-it list. Basically, we’re using a component that isn’t as reliable as we expected, so we need to add a layer of redundancy and failover on top of that component.

Since receiving that email on September 2nd, I have not experienced a single brownout!  I am utterly amazed by 2 things: first, that someone from Google actually noticed and responded to my posts [behold the power of “web2.0“] and second, they issued an explanation as well as a solution [so far] in less than a month.

So…cheers to Google and a tip of the edupunk [always full]beer mug for getting things done!

Much like W.C. Fields…..I have never voted FOR anyone, only against them…….

Video goodness HERE.

Be advised…..when you accept the Chrome EULA, you agree to the following:

 11. Content licence from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

This may be an issue if you are using Chrome to post, distribute, etc material that is copyrighted in that Google now has the ability to utilize such material as it wishes. Sooooo….looks like I’ll only be using Chrome to browse! 

Talking to fellow edupunk Bryan about Chrome, he had an interesting question: who is this aimed at, M$ or Apple?

I replied that I thought Google was shooting at M$, given that Apple has it’s cult [core, corpse..how many bad puns?] of users. Perhaps that’s why there is not an Apple version available today?

Although it was leaked prematurely, Google announced the relase of Chrome yesterday, and as promised, posted the download link today! So far, I am pretty impressed……lightweight, fast and with nice controls. Not sure it will replace firefox anytime soon, but it looks like the final nail IE’s coffin! But remember, kids, when it starts to crash and you are tempted to whine like a 2 year old, it’s a BETA release! 

 Via Infocult….

For some reason, there is a huge discrepancy in arctic ice measurements between this Telegraph Article, satellite imagery from higher education and recent first-hand accounts. However, I am wondering exactly where the Telegraph obtained their satellite image from, as they provide no reference link, although they claim they are from NASA.

The image displayed on the Telegraph page looks similar to the September of 2007 image from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

…..or am I having a delusion?

10:44 am

2:08 pm

 NOTE: I am not on campus today, so this one is not an Oberlin network related issue. Web interface is extremely slow as well for the Oberlin account while my additional gmail account works perfectly.

ALSO….thanks to Jamie from Google for actually taking notice!! Appreciate the service.

1:25 pm

I may need to start a separate blog for this!!

10:59 am

Update @ 11:25…running into the same issue as yesterday.