Off-Topic Rants

Tech Struggles

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This weekend, I gave up my Samsung Galaxy S7 for a shiny new iPhone XR. Ok, the XR isn’t the newest model, but the price was right and with my oldest kid now getting a phone, going the iPhone route was the easiest. My S7 was starting to get a bit old – the battery … Read more

The Cloud Crashed? Say It Ain’t So!

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Well, Amazon AWS decided to crash today.  Limited impact where I work, which is good (we self-host our own Blackboard instance). http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-web-services-cloud-outage-internet-crashes/ Of course, the cloud never fails, right?  Always on, always accessible, of course! via GIPHY