Andy Ostroy at the Huffington Post writes about how he hates Facebook. Well Andy, you’re late to the party on that one, and trust me, nobody gives a damn about your 40-yr old pre-pubescent photographs. No, seriously, believe it or not, not one single person, not even the guy who found them.

*heavy sigh*

Lazy journos writing utter shite about things they don’t understand and never will.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-ostroy/i-hate-facebook_b_178867.html

Andy writes: “The site is overcrowded with attention-starved grown-ups essentially screaming "look at me… look at me!" all day long.”

And so is the Huffington Post press desk apparently.

Andy Ostroy, belonging to an exclusive club of 1 billion and growing, a membership which includes yours truly. Andy also belongs to the exclusive narcissist’s rant of the month club where you get to pick an obvious topic, such as “I hate Facebook” and write long-winded rants about it on a well trafficked “journalistic” website to get their own 15 minutes of fame.

May I get you a little more whine to go with your spam, sir?

Wait a minute, I think I just wrote a lazy blog post about a lazy journalist, does that mean the Universe will now implode?

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Sorry about the weirdness with the site if you were looking at it recently.

Seems that the stats plug-in I installed on WordPress choked up and began spitting out a lot of HTML and PHP nonsense at the top of the page.

The statistics plug-in is not fixed yet but I disabled it so that everything can return to normal.

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If you’re going to set up a customer facing automated system, at least ensure it is reliable.

This website, along with about a dozen other websites I host on this server all went off-line for about 10 hours due to an automated billing system unable to process the credit card that was on file with the hosting provider. Because the credit card processing failed due to a communications error, and everything with the card information was fine, this card had been working fine for months, the automated system decided that access to the server should shut down immediately until the bill was paid. Now how screwed up is that!?

This is the third time in the past twelve months that various automated systems with different businesses have failed to process a credit card on a recurring basis. Even though the card information was correct, even though the card had been billed multiple times before, the automated transaction didn’t process and no notification was sent to either the card holder, i.e. me, or the billing department at the business that there had been a failure.

How long until the average person in the street has automated systems so intertwined that a failure in one area causes a huge cascade failure with a group of other systems?

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