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Memories of Spelling Bees gone by.

Submitted by NickMoline on Thu, 2010-03-04 23:35

So tonight was fun.. Amazing how things can bring back both such fond and such painful memories at the same time. I went to a play tonight, "25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee" and they were looking for volunteer spellers and I was chosen.

Fond memories of being on stage again, little bit of improv involved as I had to play along with the actors.

The Cloud is falling, the Cloud is falling! Amazon, Walmart, Salesforce and others down on December 23rd

Submitted by NickMoline on Wed, 2009-12-23 17:20

A Major pre-christmas internet outage seems to be hitting the heavy hitters on the web right now. Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, and Walmart.com are all offline right now, perhaps even more. Interestingly enough sites running on amazon web services (AWS EC2) seem to be running just fine. An outage of these large sites at the same time is likely a result of an attack of massive proportions.

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Google List Message Headers Changing - Could real Google Groups for Domains be on the way?

Submitted by NickMoline on Tue, 2009-12-08 10:56

UPDATE: I was right, tonight Google announced Google Groups is now part of Google Apps for Domains!

This morning I noticed a change in the way emails sent to a group (formerly known as list) email address on google apps for domains appear. Below is an example of the bottom of the email headers on an email sent to one of my groups on nick.pro:

Old Google List Headers

On the other hand here is the bottom of the email headers on an email sent to that same group today:

New Google List Headers

As you can see in these images, a few new list specific header lines have been added that make lists appear more like they were handled by more traditional mailing list software, rather then a simple email forwarder.

I've confirmed this change seems to have happened today as emails to groups as recently as yesterday do not have the additional headers, while emails to the same groups today have the additional headers, hop past the break to see a breakdown of the 4 new headers and what I think this change means: