Common sense is not so common.

la la la la la, you and me and me and you… so happy together!!

I don’t usually have much bad things to say about Google, aside from the fact that they make their tools almost completely opaque, but lately I’ve run into a bit of an annoyance with GMail. First occurrence was during a Jot meltdown. I love jot because even though it doesn’t always work, in its pre-Google stage I’ve been very happy working to the support there to get a quick solution! *heart* ! postGoogle, I email jotsupport@google.com or something like that and the email bounced!  I remember sending multiples of copied and forwarded mails, checking if my outgoing account is working, one of which is also gmail, and then checking if the inbound is working. No dice. About half day later, it’s good to go. It’s not jot’s fault. really. It’s gmail!

Flip to the present time, I have downloaded the Google Toolbar because of pagerank, and clicked on the mail icon there, sign in, and I get this lovely picture of the ‘GMail is down’ page; I’m sure you’ve seen it.

Maybe all the # of users? Nah G is pretty equipped. Some one forgot to document changes? Nah, G’s not a “startup” anymore. Loading new spy software behind the scenes? Maybe. I may not know much, but I know that there are backup servers and it is odd to have some entity as powerful and resourceful as Google (a composite of the smartest ppl in the world) have a service like GMail down.

Everyone knows I’m not a bragger, but this picture is just a fantastic summary of *the* most adorable logos that aren’t just cameo-shots of kittens and puppies:

Mystery artist, keep up the creative cuteness! Qwerky, thanks for the composite!

does anyone else associate a repeated task with specific background music? here’s a good example: I like to study and work with classical piano in the background? Why? because in college I used to run away from my constantly drinking and smoking friends and study in the MUSIC LIBRARY while listening to Chopin nocturnes.

Another example that may not apply to anyone in the silicon valley area, is “work out” music. People usually listen to upbeat and fun music while doing cardio and then new age, yoga music for when they are working on the floor mats.

Well the funny thing I find myself hearing when I first try out new internet software is the Super Mario Bros theme. It makes sense (to me) because I’ve just tried so many. Every time I find something new I like it because it’s a varietal, and it’s most likely FASTER than all the other month-old services I’m used to because not everyone’s on it and the servers are constantly burping from the graph problem. *breath*

P.S. I like making “conversation” posts.

ok, maybe not a literally dead-end but close enough! I’ve found 404’s for adsense api beta “sample” code,  a web of posts and threads about how people were trying to crack the google analytics “checksum”, and then questions about how often G changes this magical number.  I’m not crying for help, I’m just trying to make a nice report so our past, present and future investors can have something to chew on all on one page and not have to “click through”. GRAR. I must be living in a fantasy world to think that everyone wants to make the web easy.

I needed a bit of sugar to get me through this evening’s post-dinner drowsiness, and started to snack on some fruit jellies until what I thought a migraine happened to me. I would imagine it’s like someone stabbing an icepick into your ear and any head/neck movement only makes it worse. Last time I felt this kind of pain, I had a root extraction 4 days later. I am not a happy person.