Absquatulate

How long is too long?

I don't mean to gross you out, but what do you suppose the limit is on sore throats? How long can I go before I should go see a doctor about this? Key factors to consider include that I only had a fever of 100 for one day. My throat has been getting a teensy weensy bit better every day, but it's definately still swollen and painful. I have no tell-tale white spots indicating strep. I no longer feel like I was hit by a truck and then scraped off the pavement with a razor blade. I have developed a very annoying dry cough, like I have a bit of dust trapped in my throat.

I'm assuming I'm okay, but I'm going on nearly 7 days with a sore throat, and that doesn't seem quite right.

Summer Sick.

I seem to have contracted the kind of flu that one should only get during February. Fever, chills, aches that touch every crevace of my body and makes sitting or laying in one position a trial, tonsils swollen to the size of golfballs. Thankfully there is little sneezing, but when there is I half expect my tonsils to shoot out my nose.

I'm heading back to bed. Carry on, internet.

Yahooooo...oooo....o. *yawn*

So. Yahoo! finally picks up on the idea that DISK SPACE IS CHEAP and offers 100M of email storage and an updated interface for their Yahoo!Mail service. All in all more space is good, an updated design is good. Google raising the bar for free email services is good (hey, got a GMail invite you'd be willing to send me? Let's negotiate!)

Update: Thanks, Heather!

Howerver good ain't good if the server is so.slow.I.could.chisel.words.in.cuneiform.faster. Honestly. More than once I've been met with DNS errors (which, okay, could very well be on my end), connection refused messages, refresh requests that just sit... and sit... and sit some more, until I give up in frustration and hit "reload" three or four times before my request goes through. Come on people, I can't imagine they're getting hit *that* hard with this new announcement.

Okay let's quantify shall we? Clicked on "return to mailbox" from a message I was reading. Time to refresh screen? 30 seconds. Click on Compose? 27 seconds for the composer to pop up. Click on cancel? 30 seconds.

Now some among you might say, "Hey, ungrateful jerk, why don't you STFU? This *is* a free service you know." To which I reply: Yeah. You're right, it is a free service. The problem here is a matter of expectation. Yesterday I didn't have these long waits to perform these same tasks. Click and response was almost instant, maybe a few seconds lag time. To have those expectations dashed with 30 second wait times (which is unacceptable in any computer environment) is disappointing. It's also disappointing to think that Yahoo was surprised by the traffic such an announcement might generate. Here's hoping this is a temporary problem, and not a permanent one because if it is, I guess I'll be shopping around for a mail server.

Update: Apparently the sluggish response times was due to a DOS attack on Akamai and probably not due to Yahoo! sleeping on the job. I retract my statement. :^)

When was that?

So this past week was spent knee deep in real work and in side projects and sunshine and with new electronic gadgets and bathing in jazz which means I was spending more time thinking about ERP systems and restaurant reviews and being outside and Rebels and Australian blues than posting something here.

You'd think I'd have photos to post, and you'd be correct, except my darling hubby kicked me off the machine that had them so he could "do work" on his photos of his oil paintings. *Pffft*. Like that's more important than entertaining you, Internet.

Eye Searing Gamma

Is this what passes for 'design' these days? Please tell me this is some sort of self parody, or some sort of joke on the rest of the blogs out here (including this one.) Because if it isn't a small part of me has withered. Lance, say it ain't so!

Update: I laughed. Because Zeldman's post skewering Lance for letting glassdog devolve to a blog (um, and what was it before? Long essay-ish entries.) could be taken seriously or jokingly. The problem is nobody seems to know which is the right way he intended. He seems so serious in most of his posts, so is he serious here? Is there a right/left coast smackdown brewing? Or just two popular bloggers getting the last laugh on the rest of us? STAY TUNED!

Linky Goodness

• Fonts that look good together (if only they had actual examples)
• Also from Will Harris Esperfonto
• The Morning News has a short peice on Martha Nussbaum
• From Salon.com (requires viewing of short commercial to read whole article:

  So what's a girl to think when she opens up the special Fleet Week section of the New York Post on Monday and finds a full-page ad for Madame Tussaud's wax museum that makes the place look a celebrity call-girl service for necrophiliacs?

  I think the answer is "!?"