Recent Posts Tagged With 'site malfunctions'

• Mashable.com Beta Fail

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 10:37 in social network, Blog Babble, site malfunctions

  I just attempted to login to My Mashable account and received the screen below. It looks like they are beta testing some new platform using Scalr, which is a cloud computing platform. I wonder if they’ll let me in the beta since I uncovered the...

• Mediacom Help Online? Or Hello World

  Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 21:06 in Blog Babble, site malfunctions

  I was trying to hunt down some information about latest internet provider, Mediacom, for which I have not been extremely excited about. I found this PDF for Broadband Internet Help and figured I’d take a look. It was basically information on ho...

• Funny Site Error Message

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 22:17 in website, Blog Babble, site malfunctions

  I was browsing a website looking at Glock handguns tonight for my father-in-law. I noticed that the site was performing extremely poorly; everything took a long time to load. That’s just about when it happened. I received a site error message. ...

• Ma.gnolia Site Down For The Count

  Posted on Friday January 30th, 2009 at 17:12 in news, site malfunctions

  I just tried to save a bookmark to one of my favorite bookmarking sites, ma.gnolia.com. To my dismay however, I received the following message.“Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 30th, Ma.gnolia experienced every web serviceR...

• Active.com Is TOO Active Today

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 09:07 in website, Blog Babble, site malfunctions

  I tried hitting Active.com today to check on some new Running articles and received the following error message. It’s nice that they tell you that they are too busy to service your request… I guess....

• Amazon RAID Search - Odd Results

  Posted on Monday July 14th, 2008 at 09:41 in Blog Babble, site malfunctions

  Does Amazon know what I am looking for more than the search phrase that I just typed in? Perhaps… but perhaps not so much. I was recently searching around Amazon for a few separate classes of items. The first thing I searched for was headphones...

• Google Search, Huh?

  Posted on Friday July 11th, 2008 at 12:51 in Blog Babble, site malfunctions

  So I was doing some research on MySQL database security and wanted to do a quick search for two runtime configuration parameters. I did a search for --secure-auth and --old-passwords on google. Do you think I saw any results concerning MySQL database...

• Yahoo May NOT Have The Answers

  Posted on Monday April 28th, 2008 at 13:05 in search engines, Blog Babble, site malfunctions

  In which case you should go take a coffee break or something… according to them. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Yahoo May NOT Have The Answers", url: "http://www.franzone.com/2008/04/28/yahoo-may-not-have-the-answers/" });...

• StumbleUpon Has A Nice Error Page

  Posted on Wednesday April 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 in Blog Babble, site malfunctions

  I was recently (a few minutes ago) trying to stumble an article that I found on the internet and received an error from the StumbleUpon servers. Usually the errors you get can be anywhere from formal and informative to downright ugly. This message ho...

• Is Last.fm On It’s Last Leg?

  Posted on Friday April 18th, 2008 at 12:22 in Blog Babble, site malfunctions

  No, just kidding. I just haven’t posted any Site Malfunctions in a while so when I received this login error I thought I’d mock them. Muahaha! EDIT: (April 18, 2008 12:22 PM) Apparently the problems they are having are more serious than ...

• Site Malfunction - Me!

  Posted on Wednesday December 5th, 2007 at 11:02 in site malfunctions

  I just love it when I’ve worked for the past fifteen minutes on a post, I hit the Publish button and… crap! I get a WordPress error explaining that it cannot reach my database. That’s just brilliant. I have a hosted web service thro...

• Site Error: DomainsBot.com

  Posted on Friday November 30th, 2007 at 14:24 in site malfunctions

  I was searching for some new domain names today and I got this handy-dandy error from DomainsBot.com. Looks like the ole Microsoft .NET Framework is giving them some problems. BTW - Usually that site is an excellent place to brainstorm and look for ...