Facebook Platform Instability
Of the last 40 updates I’ve made to my Facebook Application for showing Stock Quotes, 6 have failed with a “Unknown data store API error.” While I have no idea what the error means, it seems to indicate that Facebook couldn’t save the data I sent it at a 15% rate for that period of 10 hours.
Other Facebook Platform issues include restricted growth, bugs in the developer application, downtime, and poor performance. Obviously, F8 will go through some growing pains before it fully matures.
Cron -> Too Much Email
My cron-jobs are spamming me, as I just got home to at least a thousand emails from the cron daemon alone:
I also have 35,000 emails in my Thunderbird which are notifications of new comments on various blogs which I will be deleting ASAP. Even a Mozilla product starts to get slow after too much data. How do you guys deal with all the automatic email-spam these days? I filter it to different places, of course, but it still builds up over time.
TSA & Photography
Live from the Honolulu International Airport, I bring you the following conversation I shared with the Transport Security Administration about the photography of their checkpoint.
Me: Is there any specific written tsa regulation prohibiting photography?
TSA Captain: Yes there is. Phography is not allowed.
Me: Can I see this in writing?
TSA Captain: I can’t let you see that.
Me: Then how do I know it exists?
TSA Captain: I just told you.
Obviously there is a problem here; I don’t mind not being able to take photos (national security, yada yada) but TSA as a government agency has to at least inform the public of its regulations. How can anyone be held responsible for violating a regulation they could not possibly know exists.